Study on the Coupled and Coodinated Development of Tourism-Economy-Ecological Environment in the Upper Reaches of Minjiang River

Abstract

The article takes five counties, Songpan County, Heishui County, Mao County, Li County and Wenchuan County in the upper Minjiang River region, as the research object, and measures the related tourism-economy-ecological environment system data of the five counties from 2010 to 2022, and quantifies and analyses the comprehensive effect and the degree of coordination of the coupling by applying entropy and coupling coordination model. The spatio-temporal evolution characteristics of the coordinated development of the systems in different counties were analysed to provide theoretical references for the high-quality development of the tourism-economy-ecological environment system in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River. On this basis, Arc GIS software was used to further explore the temporal change characteristics and spatial differences of coordinated development in different counties. The results show that (1) the state of coordinated development of tourism-economy-ecological environment in the five counties in the upper Minjiang River region is at a low level type. All five counties' coupled coordination scores are below 0.3, and all of them are still in the state of serious or moderate dislocation. (2) The development of tourism-economy-ecology-environment coupling degree of coordination of the five counties in the upper reaches of Minjiang River is in a fluctuating upward trend, in which the development of the tourism-economy system maintains a rapid development and the ecological-environmental system is relatively lagging behind. (3) The evolution path of tourism-economy-ecological environment coordination in the five counties upstream of the Minjiang River is a gradual leaping path pattern, which can be divided into three specific cases. These include: maintaining the "severe disorder" path, the "extreme disorder - severe disorder" path, and the "severe disorder - moderate disorder" path. (4) From the results of the internal coupling and coordination analysis, Songpan County and Heishui County belong to the tourism super-advanced type, while Mao County, Li County and Wenchuan County belong to the economic super-advanced type. The scores of the ecological environment system of the five counties are seriously lagging behind the tourism system and economic system, and the ecological environment is facing severe pressure. Finally, the spatial and temporal characteristics of the tourism-economy-ecological environment system in the five counties of the upper Minjiang River are presented, and strategies are proposed to improve the system.