A Conceptual Model of Low Carbon Scenic Spots and Construction of Evaluation Index System.

What are low carbon scenic spots? How do we evaluate the development level of low carbon scenic spots? This is a huge and complicated systematic project which involves such elements as many evaluation factors, wide sphere of involvement and hard to quantify evaluation criterion. Referring to Driving Force-Status-Response (DSR) model proposed by UNCSD, the paper builds a conceptual model of low-carbon scenic spots. Low-carbon scenic spots cannot be simply equivalent to energy saving and emission reduction, it should be extended to five levels including development stage of scenic spots, resource endowments, technological level, consumptive operation and policy concept. The paper selects low-carbon business economic indicators, low-carbon resource indicators, low-carbon operational indicators of consumption, low-carbon environment technical indicators and low-carbon policy indicators, aiming to build the theoretical framework of " economy-resource-operation-environment-policy", " five dimensional" comprehensive evaluation index system so as to provide referential basis for quantitatively evaluating development potential of low-carbon scenic areas and also provide theoretical guidance and technical support for future low-carbon index verification, cooperation in emission reduction items and establishing emission reduction compensation system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]