Evaluation of tourism ecological carrying capacity based on multi-scale fusion:A case study on coastal counties of Jiangsu
A comprehensive understanding of tourism ecological carrying capacity was pivotal in guiding sustainable development of regional tourism.In this paper,we proposed a"multi-scale fusion"method for delineating evaluation units and introduced a"carrier-load"perspec-tive to establish a novel tourism ecological carrying capacity evaluation framework.Taking the coastal counties of Jiangsu province as an example,we applied the proposed evaluation unit di-vision and tourism ecological carrying capacity assessment approach.The results were as fol-lows:(1)By employing the multi-scale fusion approach,the coastal region of Jiangsu province was divided into 4.9× 105 evaluation units spanning across seven spatial scales.(2)The division of evaluation units revealed significant differences in the performance of tourism ecological car-riers and tourism load evaluation indicators across various spatial scales.(3)The tourism eco-logical carrying capacity of the coastal counties in Jiangsu exhibited a gradual weakening trend from the sea towards the land,with the majority of areas facing a potential risk of exceeding their carrying capacity.This paper broke through the limitations of traditional evaluation unit scales and the"threshold"constraint on tourism ecological carrying capacity,aiming to provide new theoretical and methodological references for regional evaluation unit delineation and tour-ism ecological carrying capacity assessment.
multi-scale fusionthe perspective of"carrier-load"tourism ecological carrying ca-pacitycoastal counties in Jiangsu province