Ecological and environmental pressure and research progress of China’s coastal zone

Abstract:

The paper analyzes and induces the current research progress of China’s coastal zone research by summarizing ecological, environmental and economic papers. First, the circumscription of different disciplines and viewpoint from different academicians are compared. According to the research and management objects,the coastal zone can be defined from the biological and managemental angles, respectively. The ecological and environmental pressure faced by China’s coastal zone are summrized into the pressure form population growth in the zone,the overexploitation of coastal zone resources, disaster and natural variance in the zone and invasion of foreign species,and also the characteristics of the pressure are discussed. The paper also sums up the main research progress in the field of marine economy and management of China’s coastal zone. The main research contents are the index system and estimate model of coastal zone sustainable development, the integration development strategy of coastal zone and coastal planning, marine industrial structure and competitive power, ecological value of coastal zone, economic accounting of natural disaster and marine culture.