Abstract:

The healthy development of protected areas on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau has an important role in promoting the comprehensive construction of protected areas system with national parks as the main body.Studying the development status of protected areas and rural communities on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau and comprehensively evaluating their coordinated development relationship are of great significance for promoting the construction of protected areas system and the revitalization of rural communities.Taking Qinghai Province as an example,we analyzed the principle of the interaction mechanism between protected areas and rural communities,and used the coupling and coordination evaluation model to carry out research on the coupling and coordination between protected areas and rural communities in five typical protected areas on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau.The results of the study showed that:1)the construction of protected areas and the revitalization of rural communities are of equal importance;2)the coupling relationships between 5 protected areas and rural communities showed different trends;3)most of the 5 protected areas are highly coordinated with rural communities and showed a benign development trend;and a few protected areas had poor coupling and coordinated development with rural communities.Through this study,we hope to provide references for promoting the integration and development of protected areas and rural communities on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau.

Key words: the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, protected areas, rural community, coupling degree, coordination degree, Qinghai Province