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Ecotourism has developed extensively in recent years in China, and it is the developing direction of tourism industry now. But irrational exploitation has devastated the ecotourism resources. Confronted with the up surging ecotourism market, we are lacking in corresponding legislative control and legislative link. Therefore, forming the legal system of ecotourism and having laws to abide by can ensure...
The nature reserve is an important and special carrier of the ecotourism in China. Tourism on nature reserve not only need to pursue an economic performance, but also need to obey the initial target of protection, pursuing coordination among the functions of protection, research and educating etc. There are a series of problems in the nature reserve tour ism industry currently, such as the problems...
This report summarizes the presentations, discussions, and recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Workshop “Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure” held at NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, October 13 through October 15, 2009. The primary objective of this Workshop was to bring together experts and various stakeholders to identify and...
Many international policies that adopt the precautionary principle such as European REACH directives have emerged in response to the regulatory dilemma caused by the fast growing use of toxic chemicals in electronics production. However, while these current global green electronic standards pay much attention to substances in the product, the adverse impacts of chemicals and solvents used in the manufacturing...
With the rapid development of our country's tourism, the price competition of travel products is becoming more fierce, China's travel agency industry hasn't been the "profiteering industry" previously recognized by the public, the chaotic price competition has made it become a trade of "meager profit" or even "non-profit". Particularly the chaotic price competition of...
From the international comparisons of economic growth and energy consumption, China's energy consumption per unit production is one of the world's highest, and the Chinese unit environmental cost of GDP is in the world forefront calculating energy consumption companied with environmental protection. Because of the 70% energy consumption of our country coming from coal, environmental regulation of...
Now environment protection and resources conservation is rising on a global scale and carried out a green wave protection. The green rampart that formed on foreign trade was exerted a tremendous influences for product export in China. Therefore, the development countermeasure is urgent to be studied in order to help the industries in China placidly pass through the crisis. Based on survey reports...
The high tech electronic industries have played a vital role in driving the world economy. In Taiwan, many high-tech parks have been established by either the government or high-tech manufacturers to promote national economic development. However, the manufacturing of high-tech products release hundreds of chemicals and generate thousands of tons of wastewater per day. As the electronic production...
E-waste, the CO2 impact of the IT industry and increasing demands for corporate social responsibility are the driving forces behind the ??Green IT?? boom. Tools such as Environmental labelling of IT equipment and other claims to environmental preferability are guiding consumers to more ecologically sound choices of IT equipment. At the same time, consumers have an endless demand for high performance...
"Digital Ocean" is essentially a virtual ocean world which is composed of massive, multi-resolution, multi-temporal, multi-space marine monitoring and data analysis algorithms and models. "Digital Ocean" will promote a more intelligent way which people exploit and make use of the ocean, thus guarantee the sustainable development of the sea. This thesis conducts a research to the...
Sustainable (renewable) energy market is stimulated by political and economical pressure to reduce ldquogreenhouse gasesrdquo emissions (United Nations Kyoto Protocol, signed by 169 countries, representing 61.6% of emissions, on December 2006), and the necessity to decrease oil demand dependency. This pressure translates into a rapidly increasing number of alternative energy financial and legislation...
Digital Earth (DE) is a virtual presentation of the planet based on geographic coordinate, and is an information system with tremendous amount of multiple resolutions and multiple scales data as shown in multiple dimensions. It can visualize the real earth and represent historical phenomena in digital way by using the large amount of data of the earth, and utilizing the computer techniques, image...
Energy is the bedrock of our daily lives and industry. Now is the time that industry, government and academia must join together and examine highly independent, fully environmentally considerate and rational energy systems. In this presentation, recent Japanese policy will be introduced focusing on new national energy strategy. Looking at future technology trends, it is probable that, in the case...
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