Stair Wear Analysis Keywords

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问题

Stone is a symbol of steadfast permanence, and carved rock is used as a building material
because of its ability to resist wear. Despite its durability, even stone is not impervious to
wear. One of the few things more resilient is the persistence of people.

The stone and other materials used to create steps are subject to constant, long-term wear, and
the wear can be uneven. For example, extremely old temples and churches may have stairs in
which the center of the steps has been worn down more than their edges, and the treads no
longer have a level top but can appear to be bowed. Due to the nature of such structures, the
buildings tend to have been inhabited by people over a very long period, but the presence of
people at a particular site often predates the construction of buildings. This can make it
difficult to accurately determine the date a structure was constructed. The situation is further
complicated when construction on a structure occurs over a very long time, renovations have
been made, and new parts to the structure have been added over time.
Your team is asked to provide guidance on what information archaeologists can determine
from a set of worn stairs. The stairs may be constructed from various materials, for example
stone or wood. Also, an estimate of when a set of stairs was constructed may be available,
however, it may be difficult to get a precise time. It may not be clear from the historical
records which set of stairs in a structure was constructed in each time period.
In addition to age, an archaeologist may also be interested in determining the traffic patterns
associated with how a stairwell was used. For example, were people moving up as well as
down the stairs at the same time or was a predominant direction used at any given time? An
archaeologist may also want to determine how often the stair well was used. For example, did
a large number of people use it over a short period or did a few people use it over a very long
period?
Your team is asked to develop a model that can determine what basic conclusions can be
drawn given a set of stairs. Your model should provide some basic predictions given the
patterns of wear on a particular set of stairs:
• How often were the stairs used?
• Was a certain direction of travel favored by the people using the stairs?
• How many people used the stairs simultaneously? (For example, did pairs of people
climb the stairs side-by-side or did they travel single file?)

You can assume that an archaeologist has access to the structure in question and can obtain
whatever measurement your team believes is important. The measurements must be made in
a way that is non-destructive, the cost must be relatively low, and the measurements can be
taken by a small team of people with minimal tools. You should make clear what
measurements are required.
There are other questions that may be more difficult to address. Assuming an estimate of the
age exists, the way the stairwell was used, and an estimate on the daily patterns of life in the
structure are available, determine what guidance can be provided to the following questions:
• Is the wear consistent with the information available?
• What is the age of the stairwell and how reliable is the estimate?
• What repairs or renovations have been conducted?
• Can the source of the material be determined? For example, if stone is used is the
wear consistent with materials from a quarry the archaeologist believes is the original
source or if wood was used is the wear consistent with the age and type of trees that
are assumed to be used?
• What information can be determined with respect to the numbers of people using the
stairs in a typical day and were there large numbers of people using the stairs over a
short time or a small number of people over a longer time?

你是一名知名的考古学家和数据学家,现在你的团队致力于解决以上提到的问题,请你给出几个关键词供相关文献的搜索

思考

Proposing research keywords

I'm curious about suggesting keywords for a Chinese researcher studying arch usage, wear patterns, stair usage, and non-destructive testing.

Weighing keyword options

I’m gathering a comprehensive list of keywords, including non-destructive analysis, stair wear patterns, and historical building renovation, to ensure a thorough research context.

Weighing language options

OK, let me see. Crafting relevant keywords for literature searches in both Chinese and English, to ensure comprehensive coverage and accessibility. This mixed approach seems like the most effective strategy.

Thought about stair wear analysis,持续 8 秒

回答

以下是一些可能有助于检索相关文献的关键词,可用于围绕“台阶(或楼梯)的磨损及使用分析”这一主题展开研究。根据不同研究方向或技术手段,你可以选择其中部分或全部进行检索和组合:

  1. Stair Wear Analysis(台阶磨损分析)
  2. Traffic Pattern / Foot Traffic Analysis(人流模式 / 脚步交通分析)
  3. Non-destructive Testing(非破坏性检测)
  4. 3D Scanning / Photogrammetry(3D 扫描 / 摄影测量)
  5. Material Provenance(材料溯源)
  6. Dendrochronology(树木年轮学,用于木质台阶的年代测定)
  7. Radiometric / Radiocarbon Dating(辐射测年 / 碳测年)
  8. Architectural Archaeology(建筑考古学)
  9. Renovation History(修缮 / 翻修改造历史)
  10. Wear Pattern Mapping(磨损分布测绘)
  11. Surface Microtopography(表面微形貌研究)
  12. Cultural Heritage Conservation(文化遗产保护)
  13. Historical Record Comparison(历史文献比对)
  14. Usage Frequency and Intensity(使用频率与强度)
  15. Stone Provenance / Quarry Sourcing(石材产地 / 采石场溯源)

在文献检索时,可以将上述关键词与具体的地名、时代(如“Roman temple steps”“ medieval church stairs”等)或特定的考古学技术、研究方法(如“X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis”)结合使用,以获取更具针对性的资料。

问题

Juneau, Alaska, USA with a population of about 30,000 residents, set a record in 2023 with 1.6
million cruise passengers, hosting as many as seven large cruise ships on the busiest days, with
upwards of around 20,000 visitors.
[1] While these tourists bring in substantial revenue for the
city, on the order of $375 million,
[2] they also bring issues related to overcrowding that have the
city working to limit the number of guests. Ironically, Mendenhall Glacier, one of the premier
attractions in Juneau, has been receding, primarily due to warming temperatures caused, in part,
by overtourism. The glacier has receded the equivalent of eight football fields since 2007,
leading many locals to worry that the tourists and associated revenue will eventually disappear
with the glacier.
[3] Fortunately, Juneau has other attractions, including whale watching and rain
forests, and can maintain their status as a tourist destination, provided they can develop and enact
a plan for sustainable tourism.
Recent reports[4] have highlighted the hidden costs of tourism and the growing need to account
for and manage these costs to protect natural and cultural resources and build a sustainable
tourism industry on which numerous communities around the world depend. These hidden costs
include pressure on local infrastructure including drinking water supplies, waste management,
and an overall increased carbon footprint in tourist destinations, many of which lie in
environmentally sensitive regions. Local populations are also under pressure due to housing
supplies and costs, overcrowding, and rowdy tourists. Various measures have been enacted to
attempt to ease the burden, including increased hotel taxes, visitor fees, caps on the number of
daily visitors, and restrictions on alcohol sales and consumption. Additional revenue from taxes
have been used to support conservation, make improvements in infrastructure, and develop
community programs. While many locals that depend on tourism are concerned that additional
fees might drive tourists away and would rather see the numbers, and their businesses, grow,
many other locals are becoming disgruntled and either leaving or protesting against tourists.
• Build a model for a sustainable tourism industry in Juneau, Alaska. You may want to
consider factors such as the number of visitors, overall revenue, and measures enacted to
stabilize tourism. State clearly which factors you are optimizing, and which factors serve
as constraints. Include a plan for expenditures from any additional revenue and show how
these expenditures feed back into your model to promote sustainable tourism. Include a
sensitivity analysis and discuss which factors are most important.

假设你是一位资深数据科学家与数学家,请你思考:这在数学建模中是一个什么类型的问题(预测,评价,优化等)?你对这个可持续旅游业模型( a model for a sustainable tourism industry),有什么思考与思路?

思考

Understanding the task

First, I identify that the problem involves forecasting, optimization, and policy making within sustainable tourism in Juneau, Alaska.

Piecing together the model

I think through the model to include predictive elements for tourist numbers, environmental impacts, and tourist capacity, along with evaluative and optimization components.

Thought about sustainable tourism modeling,持续 7 秒

回答

以下内容将从数学建模与数据科学的角度,探讨在 Juneau(朱诺) 建立“可持续旅游业”模型的思路,以及该问题在数学建模中大致属于什么类型的问题。


1. 这是一个什么类型的问题?

在数学建模和数据科学的范畴中,针对可持续旅游的研究通常包含以下几种主要问题类型:

  1. 预测(Prediction / Forecasting):

    • 例如,预测未来若干年内的游客数量、旅游收入、环境承载压力(如碳排放、水资源消耗、废物处理量等)和当地基础设施负载(如交通流量、住宿需求)等。
    • 这部分需要使用统计模型、时间序列分析、机器学习模型(如回归、ARIMA、LSTM 等)来对游客数量或经济指标进行预测。
  2. 评估(Evaluation / Assessment):

    • 对旅游对当地环境、社会、经济的影响进行评价,例如环境压力指数(Environmental Impact Index)、社会满意度指标(Local Satisfaction Index)、旅游经济指标等。
    • 可构建综合的评价指标体系(基于可持续性框架、生态学指标、社会学指标)来衡量是否达到“可持续”的要求。
  3. 优化(Optimization / Planning):

    • 根据需求设置目标函数,如最大化收入最小化环境损害平衡不同利益相关者的满意度等;同时也要考虑资源与政策的多重约束(如每日游客上限、碳排放配额、酒店入住量限制、费用增收政策等)。
    • 这往往表现为一个**多目标优化(Multi-objective Optimization)约束优化(Constrained Optimization)**问题,需要权衡经济效益和环境、社会因素。

综合而言,“可持续旅游”模型通常是一个多目标或多阶段的系统动态模型(system dynamics),同时包含预测、评估和优化三个层次。在模型的不同阶段,根据需求和数据可得性,可能采用不同的方法,但核心是通过对系统中各要素的相互作用建模,来寻找维持长久平衡(即“可持续”)的解。


2. 对可持续旅游模型的思考与思路

下面给出一个可能的建模思路,概括了可持续旅游模型中需要考虑的因素与方法。

2.1 模型要素与变量

  1. 游客数量 (Tourist Arrival Rate)

    • 可以是每日或季度的游客流量,用于估算住宿、交通、景点访问量等需求。
    • 影响因素:邮轮停靠数量、旅游季节性趋势、全球经济形势、气候变化等。
  2. 经济指标 (Economic Metrics)

    • 如总旅游收入、酒店业收入、餐饮业收入、旅游相关税收等。
    • 还包括随着游客数量变化带来的城市总产值增长或劳动力就业率变化。
  3. 环境指标 (Environmental Metrics)

    • 碳排放量、水资源消耗量、废物产生量,尤其对于敏感区域(如冰川、森林、海洋生态系统)的影响。
    • 重要特征:Mendenhall Glacier 的后退速度、周边生态环境的整体健康状况等。
  4. 社会指标 (Social / Local Welfare Metrics)

    • 当地居民生活质量、交通拥堵指数、住房成本、居民对游客满意度或抵触度等。
    • 还包括城市人口的流出或抗议情况等社会冲击指标。
  5. 政策与管理措施 (Policies / Management Measures)

    • 例如:
      • 每日/年度游客人数限制或游船停靠限制(Cap on number of visitors/cruise ships)
      • 额外税费 (Visitor Tax, Hotel Tax, Environmental Fee)
      • 基础设施改善投入 (Infrastructure Investment,如废物处理、交通扩容、水资源管理等)
      • 宣传和教育(激励旅游从业者和游客保护环境)
    • 不同措施的实施强度、实施时间、持续时间也会影响整体效果。

2.2 模型结构与方法

  1. 系统动力学 (System Dynamics)

    • 将上述游客数量、经济收入、环境承载力、社会指标等作为系统的不同子模块,每个模块内部及模块之间通过反馈回路(feedback loops)相互影响。
    • 常用软件工具如 Vensim、AnyLogic 或 Stella 等;优点在于可以对不同情景(如增加游客税 vs. 不增加)进行模拟,观察系统在长期的演化趋势。
  2. 多目标优化 (Multi-objective Optimization)

    • 设定几个主要目标函数,例如:
      • 经济目标:最大化年旅游净收入
      • 环境目标:最小化单位游客碳排放和生态破坏
      • 社会目标:最大化当地居民满意度(或最小化社会冲突)
    • 约束条件可包括:每日/年度游客数量上限,水资源与垃圾处理能力约束,法律与政策对巡航次数或停靠时间的限制等。
    • 可以使用线性 / 非线性 / 整数规划技术,也可以使用元启发式算法(如遗传算法、粒子群算法),针对多目标问题得到一组帕累托最优解。
  3. 预测分析 (Forecasting / Time Series Analysis)

    • 对游客增长/减少趋势进行预测,这需要整合历史数据(如邮轮公司计划、全球旅游趋势),并考虑气候变化、经济衰退或疫情等不确定性冲击。
    • 可以结合 ARIMA、SARIMA、LSTM 等模型,或对环境数据进行回归预测,评估不同情景下冰川的后退速度、生态指标变化。
  4. 情景分析 (Scenario Analysis) 与灵敏度分析 (Sensitivity Analysis)

    • 在做完初步建模后,需要对关键参数做情景假设,比如:
      • 高游客增长场景:若国际邮轮在未来几年继续保持高强度增长,将带来怎样的收益和环境损害?
      • 严格政策场景:对每日游客数量或停靠次数进行严格限制并大幅征收额外税费;会不会导致经济收入大幅减少?
    • 对关键参数进行灵敏度分析,以确定哪些因素对系统的输出最为敏感(如碳税金额、每年游轮数量、景区门票定价等),从而指导决策者将资源或管理重点放在最具影响力的变量上。

2.3 可持续发展中的“反馈”与“投资”循环

在建立可持续模型时,还要特别考虑对额外收入(如旅游税)进行有效再投资的方式,使之能够反哺到系统中,比如:

  1. 基础设施投资

    • 改善垃圾处理、污水处理能力;
    • 建设或提升公共交通以减少交通拥堵和碳排放;
    • 改造或限制部分观光点以保护自然生态敏感区域。
  2. 环境保护与教育

    • 支持科学研究与环保项目,监测冰川退化进程,保护野生动物与植被;
    • 推行游客教育项目,传播环保理念、减少游客对自然的直接破坏。
  3. 社区与社会项目

    • 为本地居民提供更多培训和可持续就业机会,缓解旅游高峰期对社区的冲击;
    • 通过财政补贴或政策优惠平抑住房价格、缓解拥堵等社会问题,提升当地居民对游客的包容度。

通过将这些再投资的要素纳入模型,可以在模拟中看到:如果增收一定的旅游税或限制游客数量,会带来怎样的短期经济损失,但在中长期却可能改善环境质量,提高游客对目的地的满意度,从而形成“良性循环”。


3. 小结

从数学建模和数据科学的角度来看,可持续旅游业通常是一个复杂的系统性问题,涵盖了预测、评估和多目标优化等层次,需要针对经济、环境和社会多个维度进行综合考量。常见的建模思路包括:

  • 利用系统动力学来捕捉变量间的相互作用和长期反馈;
  • 利用多目标优化技术来平衡经济收益与环境、社会可承受度;
  • 通过情景分析灵敏度分析来评估不同参数与政策措施的影响大小与风险。

对于决策者和研究者而言,重点往往在于如何获取并管理合适的数据,以及如何根据模型结果制定现实可行的政策,以在保证经济收益的同时,最大限度地保护当地环境与文化,并维护社区长久的可持续发展。

问题

Juneau, Alaska, USA with a population of about 30,000 residents, set a record in 2023 with 1.6
million cruise passengers, hosting as many as seven large cruise ships on the busiest days, with
upwards of around 20,000 visitors.
[1] While these tourists bring in substantial revenue for the
city, on the order of $375 million,
[2] they also bring issues related to overcrowding that have the
city working to limit the number of guests. Ironically, Mendenhall Glacier, one of the premier
attractions in Juneau, has been receding, primarily due to warming temperatures caused, in part,
by overtourism. The glacier has receded the equivalent of eight football fields since 2007,
leading many locals to worry that the tourists and associated revenue will eventually disappear
with the glacier.
[3] Fortunately, Juneau has other attractions, including whale watching and rain
forests, and can maintain their status as a tourist destination, provided they can develop and enact
a plan for sustainable tourism.
Recent reports[4] have highlighted the hidden costs of tourism and the growing need to account
for and manage these costs to protect natural and cultural resources and build a sustainable
tourism industry on which numerous communities around the world depend. These hidden costs
include pressure on local infrastructure including drinking water supplies, waste management,
and an overall increased carbon footprint in tourist destinations, many of which lie in
environmentally sensitive regions. Local populations are also under pressure due to housing
supplies and costs, overcrowding, and rowdy tourists. Various measures have been enacted to
attempt to ease the burden, including increased hotel taxes, visitor fees, caps on the number of
daily visitors, and restrictions on alcohol sales and consumption. Additional revenue from taxes
have been used to support conservation, make improvements in infrastructure, and develop
community programs. While many locals that depend on tourism are concerned that additional
fees might drive tourists away and would rather see the numbers, and their businesses, grow,
many other locals are becoming disgruntled and either leaving or protesting against tourists.
• Build a model for a sustainable tourism industry in Juneau, Alaska. You may want to
consider factors such as the number of visitors, overall revenue, and measures enacted to
stabilize tourism. State clearly which factors you are optimizing, and which factors serve
as constraints. Include a plan for expenditures from any additional revenue and show how
these expenditures feed back into your model to promote sustainable tourism. Include a
sensitivity analysis and discuss which factors are most important.

Demonstrate how your model could be adapted to another tourist destination impacted by
overtourism. How does the choice of location effect which measures will be most
important? How might you use your model to promote attractions and/or locations that
have fewer tourists to develop a better balance?
• Write a one-page memo to the tourist council of Juneau outlining your predictions, the
effects of various measures, and your advice on how to optimize outcomes.

现在你的团队致力于解决以上提到的问题,请你给出几个关键词供相关文献的搜索

思考

Gathering keywords

I’m assembling English and Chinese keywords for sustainable tourism and tourism management academic searches. These keywords might cover topics like "Sustainable Tourism," "Overtourism," and "Tourism impact analysis."

Thought about sustainable tourism modeling,持续 8 秒

回答

以下是一些可用于检索“可持续旅游”“超量旅游”“旅游管理”等领域文献的关键词,涵盖了经济、环境、社会、政策及模型构建等角度。可根据需要将这些关键词与具体地域名称(如“Juneau, Alaska”)或技术方法结合使用,以获得更具针对性的研究资料。

  1. Sustainable Tourism(可持续旅游)
  2. Overtourism(超量旅游 / 过度旅游)
  3. Tourism Carrying Capacity(旅游承载力)
  4. Visitor Management Strategies(访客管理策略)
  5. System Dynamics Model / System Dynamics Approach(系统动力学模型 / 方法)
  6. Multi-objective Optimization in Tourism(旅游业多目标优化)
  7. Economic Impact Assessment(经济影响评估)
  8. Environmental Impact Assessment(环境影响评估)
  9. Carbon Footprint / Carbon Emissions in Tourism(旅游碳足迹 / 碳排放)
  10. Infrastructure Investment for Tourism(旅游基础设施投资)
  11. Tourism Taxes / Visitor Fees(旅游税 / 访客费)
  12. Local Community Participation(社区参与 / 社区共同治理)
  13. Policy Simulation / Policy Scenarios(政策模拟 / 政策情景分析)
  14. Socio-Cultural Impact of Tourism(旅游的社会文化影响)
  15. Destination Diversification / Dispersal Strategy(目的地分散 / 分流策略)
  16. Ecological Footprint / Ecological Conservation(生态足迹 / 生态保护)
  17. Cruise Tourism Management(邮轮旅游管理)
  18. Case Studies in Overtourism / Sustainable Destination Marketing(超量旅游案例研究 / 可持续目的地营销)

在实际检索中,可以将上述关键词与具体需求或研究情境相结合(例如“overtourism + cruise ships”或“community-based sustainable tourism in Alaska”),或与各类研究方法(如“regression analysis”“agent-based modeling”“GIS mapping”等)综合,以获取更深入、精确的相关文献。

问题

Introduction
Over the last year, both scholars and policymakers have recognized
the negative implications of tourism activities on both surrounding
environment (e.g. pollution, ecosystem degradation and overexploitation) and socio-economic background (e.g. damaging or loss of
local traditional cultures and networks) (Zhong et al., 2011). However,
on the reverse side, if proper planning and management practices are
implemented, tourism-related activities have a clear potential for either
boosting local economies and protecting their social and natural capital
(Sun et al., 2020). The economic relevance of tourism is clear in the
European context, where almost 10% of GDP and around 20 million jobs
can be attributed to this sector. Accordingly, European Commission has
recognized that tourism has largely contributed to boost growth,
generate new job opportunities and attract investments (European
Commission, 2006). Furthermore, tourism largely depends on the
attractiveness of tourist localities (Romao, 2020). Therefore, it is in the
interest of both tourism services providers and policymakers preserving
natural environment, social and cultural peculiarities and local wellbeing (Hollinshead, 1991). At tourist destinations, increasing the quality
of life of residents by maximizing the economic benefits, protecting
nature and providing visitors with high quality experiences is a main
goal for sustainable tourism activities. The Agenda for sustainable and
competitive European tourism recognizes the existence of a dual interaction between tourism and the protection of the distinctive social and
environmental local features: (i) the relevance of these issues is widely
recognized and their protection is directly supported; (ii) it becomes
economically advantageous for local agents to protect environmental
and socio-cultural heritage (European Commission, 2007). With these
premises, over the last decades, the idea of tourism as a powerful
channel to promote sustainability has rapidly spread across scholars and
policymakers (Yadav et al., 2018). Thus, the definition of sustainable
tourism deals with reconciling positive and long-term economic effects
with social equity and natural capital preservation (Swarbrooke, 1999).

  • Corresponding author.
    E-mail addresses: [email protected] (R. Boffardi), [email protected] (L. De Simone), [email protected] (G. Ioppolo).
    Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
    Journal of Environmental Management
    journal homepage: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jenvman
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112016
    Received 21 July 2020; Received in revised form 26 November 2020; Accepted 17 January 2021
    Journal of Environmental Management 285 (2021) 112016
    2
    These features pose sustainable tourism practices as a promising tool to
    achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) stated by the UN
    2030 Agenda1 “to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity
    for all” (Siakwah et al., 2020). Indeed, in spite of the absence of a clear
    reference to tourism in the Agenda, six Goals implicitly recognize the
    relevance of this economic sector for sustainable development (UNDP,
    2015; UNWTO, 2011). Implicit references can be identified in SDGs 8,
    12 and 14, which regard: (i) inclusive and sustainable economic growth,
    (ii) sustainable consumption and production (SCP) and (iii) sustainable
    use of oceans and marine resources, respectively. At the same time, the
    achievement of sustainable tourism targets must account for and,
    simultaneously, balance the interests of different stakeholders – i.e.,
    local population, entrepreneurs, etc. – in all the phases of policymaking
    (Garcia-Melon et al., 2012). Similarly, Goal 16 deals with justice and
    institutions as tools for promoting inclusive equitable development,
    regarding tourism governance (Emas, 2015). In the context of a wide
    policy and literature support to sustainable tourism, several initiatives
    have been implemented all over the world. Among these projects,
    Kasbah du Toubkal is a small lodge in the midst of a Berber community in
    Morocco, whose mission is to promote tourism while both avoiding
    negative effects of mass tourism developments and promoting employee
    education by re-investing profits. Similarly, Juist Island project (Germany), Greenest hotels in Thailand (Tongsai Bay), Gili Lankanfushi and
    the Coral Line Project (Maldives) have been recognized as best practices
    in the sector. However, in spite of this background, a framework for
    supporting investment decisions in sustainable tourism initiatives is
    missing.
    Furthermore, over the last months, the Covid-19 pandemic has
    dramatically reduced tourist numbers, posing the problem of identifying
    new solutions for correctly planning tourist initiatives and channelling
    flows without enhancing the spread of the virus (Reza Farzanegan et al.,
    2020). In addition, if the recovery of tourist areas after the pandemic
    will be guided by authorities and tourist organization according to
    appropriate measures (i.e., accounting for social, environmental and
    economic issues) the social costs of tourism will reduce (Qiu et al.,
    2020). In fact, despite the steadily increasing tourism inflows experienced over the last decades by several areas, many of them still lack a
    clear international destination image allowing them to exploit the
    benefit of international tourism (Della Corte et al., 2015). Therefore,
    several promotion activities might be carried out by, in order to increase
    the attractiveness of urban areas, by supporting the exploitation of the
    natural, historical, artistic and cultural heritage.
    As also recognized by the literature, tourism sustainability is only
    achievable if local population interests are protected, natural resources
    preservation is posed among its goals by authorities, citizens and service
    providers and, finally, local social capital is constantly enhanced by the
    implemented tourism policies (Garcia-Melon et al., 2012). Furthermore,
    in order to achieve environmental security, both local population and
    tourists have to be made aware of environmental risks inherent in
    tourism activities (Petrosillo et al., 2009). However, decision-making is
    a crucial moment of the planning cycle, since multiple actors – e.g. interest groups, institutions, private actors – strategically interact with
    each other. By contrast, from the point of view of private actors, sustainable lifecycle assessment becomes fundamental for determining the
    efficiency in each process by simultaneously controlling environmental
    impact (Vila et al., 2015). Indeed, several issues might hamper the
    achievement of these goals. First, when formulating tourism policies,
    several actors have to be taken into account – i.e., policymakers, tourists,
    host communities (Adongo et al., 2018). These stakeholders present
    different and, often conflicting interests (Onder ¨ et al., 2013; Petrosillo
    et al., 2010). Thus, consultation and collaboration among the stakeholders is fundamental to balance all the involved interests (Ballantyne
    et al., 2009; Petrosillo et al., 2009). In addition, Public Administration is
    increasingly required to solve decision problems characterized by the
    necessity of expenditure rationalization. This issue forces decisionmakers to define priorities of actions according to sets of variables other
    than merely economic ones – such as social, environmental, and cultural
    variables (Fraiz et al., 2020).
    Thus, the promotion of sustainable development within the framework of tourism policies can only be addressed by implementing environmental governance mechanisms accounting for all these issues and
    related risks (Petrosillo et al., 2009; Lozano-Oyola et al., 2019). Such a
    managerial approach to sustainability and ecology is integral to the
    documents presented by the UNWTO on the achievement of SDGs and,
    overall, to the policy recommendations aiming at promoting SDGs (Hall,
    2019). The strategic approach required to planning should be a
    goal-oriented, participatory and comprehensive one (Tan et al., 2018).
    Effective and efficient management of complex issues requires sophisticated instruments and tools to be integrated in the internal
    decision-making processes. Literature has proposed a wide set of instruments, each relying on different methodologies, which might be
    ascribed to two broad groups: Multi-dimension Criteria Analysis
    (MCDA) and multi-objective optimization techniques (Soltani et al.,
    2015). The former group comprehends a wide set of multidisciplinary
    approaches, allowing to either formulate rankings among alternatives or
    eliminating inefficient ones, according to economic, social, environmental, aesthetic and ethical concerns (Rostirolla, 1998). The latter
    exploits different calculation procedure and algorithms to identify the
    optimal and best-compromise solutions among a set of available alternatives (Arbolino et al., 2018).
    In this framework, the following research is aimed at proposing a
    methodology to assess and select tourism-related projects, in order to
    increase the efficiency in resource allocation and minimize socioenvironmental impacts on the territories. A comparison between the
    optimization model (i.e. the proposed approach) and the traditional
    multicriteria methods (i.e. weighted sum and AHP) allows to assess the
    goodness of our methodology. To test our, we hypothesise a generic call
    for tender drafted by a Public administration willing to promote sustainable tourism through the financing of a set of projects. Projects to be
    funded are selected based on a multi-objective optimization model accounting for social, environmental, and economic sustainability principle. In order to test the goodness of the proposed approach, we compare
    the result with other multicriteria techniques: namely, “weighted sum”
    and “Analytic Hierarchical Process”. Our research participates in the
    ongoing debate on the methodologies used to support decision-makers
    in promoting sustainable tourism (Garcia-Melon et al., 2012; Aljerf,
    2015). The proposed approach supports policymakers in the selection of
    initiatives to be funded in the tourist sector, providing suggestions to
    optimize the allocation of public resources. Basing on both the reference
    legislation – i.e. the call for tender - and a set of environmental, economic and social constraints, it will enable decision-makers to implement effective, comprehensive and goal-oriented ex-ante evaluation of
    the interventions.
    The paper is structured as follows. The second section shows the
    main techniques exploited as a decision support system. The third section presents the complexity of the tourism decision process and the
    different methodologies to solve it. Section four and five show and discusse the results. Conclusions are presented in Section six.

请你概括这段文字讲了什么

思考

Examining tourism's impacts

I'm mapping out tourism's effects on the environment and socio-economics, noting Europe's tourism sector's significant role and the need for sustainable investment frameworks.

Thought about sustainable tourism models,持续 4 秒

回答

这段文字主要讨论了旅游业的可持续性及其对环境、社会与经济可能造成的正面或负面影响,并指出要实现旅游业的可持续发展,需要在政策层面和实践层面进行科学规划与管理。作者首先指出,虽然旅游活动可能带来环境污染、生态破坏与社会文化冲击,但如果采取合理的规划与管理策略,也能在促进当地经济发展的同时保护自然与社会文化资源。文中提及了欧洲旅游业在 GDP 和就业方面的重要地位,以及如何将旅游业与联合国可持续发展目标(SDGs)相结合,以兼顾经济效益、社会公平和环境保护。

接着,作者强调了当前在支持可持续旅游投资决策方面所面临的挑战,并提到了新冠疫情对全球旅游业带来的巨大冲击,指出在疫情后可能需要更具针对性的政策来引导旅游业的重启与恢复。文章还指出,要实现旅游的可持续发展,需要在决策时平衡多方利益,并整合社会、环境、经济等多维度的指标。

最后,作者介绍了在旅游规划与管理中常用的两大类方法:多准则决策分析(MCDA)和多目标优化技术,并提出了自己的研究目标:即通过多目标优化模型来评估和选择可持续旅游相关的项目,以实现有限公共资源的最佳配置,并与传统的多准则决策方法(如加权和法、层次分析法)进行比较,从而为决策者提供更加综合且有效的决策支持工具。

问题

什么是MCDA

思考

思考,持续 几秒

回答

**MCDA(Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis,多准则决策分析)**是一类用于在存在多个评价指标或目标的复杂情境下,为决策过程提供系统支持的方法与工具的统称。它的主要特点和作用包括:

  1. 多重指标或目标的综合评估

    • 在许多实际决策场景中,决策目标往往不仅仅局限于单一的经济效益,而会涉及社会、环境、技术、文化等多种维度。
    • MCDA 通过对不同维度的指标进行量化或定性评价,帮助决策者同时考虑多个目标,避免只关注单一指标而忽略其他重要因素。
  2. 提供结构化决策流程

    • MCDA 通常会有一套明确的步骤或流程,包括问题定义、确定指标体系、对指标进行加权和评价,以及对方案进行排序或筛选。
    • 这种结构化的方法能帮助决策者更清晰地比较不同方案的优劣势,并关注利益相关者(如政府部门、企业、当地居民、环保组织等)的意见或偏好。
  3. 多种方法学工具

    • MCDA 包含了众多具体方法和技术,例如 AHP(层次分析法)、ANP(网络分析法)、TOPSIS(逼近理想解排序法)、ELECTRE(淘汰与选择翻译法)、PROMETHEE(偏好排序法)等。
    • 不同方法在处理定性与定量信息、处理模糊性或不确定性,以及对偏好结构的表达方面各有所长。
  4. 适用范围广

    • 除了旅游业的可持续发展决策,MCDA 还广泛应用于城市规划、环境管理、供应链优化、企业决策、公共政策评估等多个领域。
    • 在需要“多目标平衡”“多方利益协调”“综合评估”或对多个候选方案进行选择和排序时,MCDA 往往能够提供行之有效的支持。

简而言之,MCDA 能够帮助决策者在同时面临多个需要平衡的目标时,更全面地识别和评估不同决策方案,进而为综合决策提供客观、系统且透明的依据。

问题

  1. Methodological approaches applied to tourism-policy making
    Over the whole process of tourism policymaking process, a variety of
    relationships and interests surrounding the tourism sector must be
    considered. This array generates multi-decision maker, multi-objective,
    multi-criteria and multidimensional decision problems. Therefore, in
    the framework of tourism policies, the application of traditional evaluation techniques resorting to monetary values – such as cost-benefit
    analysis – is difficult and, often, unsuccessful (Douissa and Jabeur,
    2020). Based on these concerns, several techniques have been exploited
    to facilitate decision making in tourism policy planning and implementation, such as the construction of synthetic indicators (Blancas
    et al., 2010), theoretical modelling (e.g., Evolutionary game theory;
    Blanco et al., 2009), Multidimensional Analysis (Carrillo and Jorge,
    2017).
    Among the vast array of techniques, Multi-Criteria dimension analysis (MCDA) methods allow to simultaneously address many issues
    related to tourism policymaking (Cinelli et al., 2014). These techniques
    are multidisciplinary approaches to complex decision problems, aiming
    at simultaneously accounting for economic, social, environmental,
    aesthetic and ethical concerns by evaluating the impacts of either projects, plans or policies based on their original measurement scales
    (Rostirolla, 1998). Furthermore, MCDA techniques leave the final choice
    on the alternative(s) to be selected to the decision-makers, choosing on
    the basis of stated objectives, interests, and values, or, alternatively, past
    experience (Soltani et al., 2015; Baba and HakemZadeh, 2012). Indeed,
    given the plurality of decision-makers and stakeholder involved, no
    unique optimal solution can be identified. Therefore, MCDA techniques
    aim at identifying a combination of alternatives to be modified, in order
    to achieve the best compromise solution (an equilibrium which cannot
    be modified without reducing the utility of at least one of the stakeholders involved).
    Once defined the decision problem, when applying techniques
    belonging to the first groups, the first step consists in eliminating
    “inefficient” alternatives (Arbolino et al., 2018). In doing so one could
    refer to the concept of “dominance” (or “Pareto-efficiency”), according
    to whom an alternative is dominated if there is, at least, one different
    and preferable option in terms of, at least, one attribute (leaving the
    other constant) (Tan et al., 2010; Guo and Yang, 2009). Otherwise,
    alternative might be eliminated because, despite not being “dominated”
    ones, they do not satisfy some exogenously determined comparison
    criteria. This selection might be performed by resorting to either
    conjunctive (an alternative is selected if it achieves “excellent” scores in
    at least one attribute) or disjunctive (an alternative is deleted if it does
    not achieve “sufficient” scores in all the parameter) methods. The second
    group of techniques might be further ranked, by distinguishing between
    techniques using equal weighting and techniques applying weights
    calculated according to their operational sheets. Within the first group,
    two ordering techniques can be identified: maximin, establishing the
    overall performance of each alternative as the lowest value achieved by
    one of its attributes, and maximax, calculating the overall performance
    of each alternative based as the highest value achieved by one of its
    attributes.
    The most frequently applied techniques may be traced back to the
    second group of ordering techniques (i.e., those applying different
    weighting), including:
    • Weighted sum, classifying alternatives based on the weighted sum of
    the values achieved by each attribute of the alternative (Fishburn,
    1967);
    • Weighted Product, ranking alternatives based on the weighted product of the values achieved by each attribute of the alternative.
    Differently from the previous one, this technique strongly penalises
    alternatives achieving low scores in one or more alternatives (Miller
    and Starr, 1969);
    • Minimum distance from the target, ranking alternatives according to
    their distance from a set of targets established ex-ante;
    • Minimum desirable value, obtaining a ranking through the weighted
    sum of the distance of each alternative from some threshold, representing the minimum values achievable, according to the decisionmaker preferences (Rostirolla, 1998).
    • Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS),
    ranking alternatives by simultaneously accounting for the distances
    from both “ideal” and “worst” solutions. This technique was elaborated by Hwang and Yoon (1981).
    • Electre Methods aim at (i) preselecting (Electre I) or (ii) ranking alternatives (Electre II, III, IV) (Roy, 1991). Differently from the previously mentioned techniques (mainly from the weighted sum), this
    group of techniques do not rely on a “compensatory” approach but,
    rather, on a deterministic one. This technique requires the identification of several thresholds (i.e., concordance and discordance indexes), meant as the limits within which the decision-maker is
    available to express a judgement in case a conflict arise among two or
    more alternatives. All the alternatives exceeding these thresholds are
    listed in a final ranking (Electre II, III, IV).
    • Analytic Hierarchy Processes (AHP; Saaty, 1988), allowing to deal
    with decision problems assessed by qualitative data, based on pairwise comparisons. It proceeds as follows: first, the problem has to be
    broken down into elementary sub-problems (hierarchical decomposition); subsequently, pairwise comparisons are performed among all
    the elements grouped in the same hierarchical level; finally, the
    decision problem is reassembled and alternatives are ordered. An
    extension of this model has been elaborated and called Analytic
    Network Processes (ANP).
    • Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluation
    (PROMETHEE) and its descriptive complement Geometrical Analysis
    for Interactive Aid (GAIA) (Brans et al., 1986). It is a set of outranking
    techniques aimed at achieving partial (PROMETHEE I) or complete
    rankings (PROMETHEE II, which is the basis for the following versions: PROMETHEE III to VI). It is based on five subsequent steps: (i)
    calculation of the deviations based on pair-wise comparisons; (ii)
    application of relevant preference function to each criterion; (iii)
    determination of the global preference index; (iv) calculation of
    either positive and negative outranking flows; (v) ranking construction based on net outranking flows calculation (Behzadian et al.,
    2010).
    • The Dominance-based Rough Set Approach (DRSA) is a relatively new
    automated valuation methodology for mass appraisal. Differently
    from the Classical Rough Set Approach (CRSA), DRSA modifies the
    indiscernibility principle by applying a dominance principle. In this
    model, data are not organized in value classes, with the aim of
    estimating a value interval for each alternative in terms of “at least”
    and “at most” values (Cinelli et al., 2014).
    These techniques are intended to achieve the best-compromise solutions among the most relevant objectives, thus waiving the paradigm
    of “optimality”. Tourism policymakers express a huge set of heterogeneous goals to be achieved through the allocation of public resource
    (Stevenson, 2007). This provides room for the application of MCDA
    methods. Table 1 lists studies applying MCDA technique to sustainable
    tourism problems.
    It is worth mentioning the third group of methodologies, namely the
    optimization methodologies. By resorting to different calculation procedure and algorithms, these techniques allow to identify the optimal
    and best-compromise solutions among a set of available alternatives
    (Arbolino et al., 2018). According to the literature, these techniques can
    be an effective and feasible instrument to improve tourism planning and
    contemporarily achieve sustainable goals (Yu, 2015).
    Decision Support Systems based on multi-objective techniques allow
    for a feasible, effective and useful appraisal of the effects of tourism
    policies and a subsequent improvement of their sustainability (Shcherbina and Shembeleva, 2014). As a consequence, the objective of this
    research has been to show the operative advantages deriving from the
    exploitation of “constrained” multi-objective optimization techniques,
    within the planning phase of sustainable tourism initiatives. This goal is
    achieved through the identification of the “best-compromise” public
    resource allocation to the tourism sector.

请你概括这段文字讲了什么,对我们研究的问题有什么帮助

思考

思考,持续 几秒

回答

这段文字系统梳理了在旅游政策制定(tourism policymaking)过程中可采用的多种方法和工具,特别是多准则决策分析(MCDA)及其具体方法(例如 TOPSIS、ELECTRE、AHP、PROMETHEE 等),并指出它们如何在面对多利益相关者、多目标、多评价指标等复杂决策场景时提供支持。作者还提到第三类方法——多目标优化(multi-objective optimization),强调这类方法可以在约束条件下寻找“最佳折中解”以实现资源的合理配置,从而提升旅游规划的可持续性和有效性。总体而言,文章为旅游政策和项目评估提供了一个完整的工具框架,帮助决策者在兼顾社会、环境和经济目标的同时,进行更科学、更透明的决策。


对研究问题的帮助

  1. 提供决策工具参考
    这段文字总结了 MCDA 及多目标优化方法的特点、适用场景和具体技术,实现了将社会、环境、经济等多重目标综合纳入决策过程,为研究者或政策制定者在旅游可持续发展方面选取恰当的决策方法提供了清晰思路。

  2. 明确多目标、多利益相关者特征
    文中强调了旅游政策决策往往涉及多方利益和多重目标。对研究者而言,这提示我们在搭建模型或提出解决方案时,需要综合考虑多重评价指标以及不同群体的价值偏好。

  3. 可操作性与比较分析
    文章讨论了不同 MCDA 方法(如 TOPSIS、ELECTRE、AHP 等)的差异,以及多目标优化方法与传统 MCDA 的比较思路,为后续研究或实务中对不同方法进行选择或比较提供了参考。

  4. 提升决策质量与可持续性
    借助多准则分析与多目标优化,能在可持续旅游规划中更好地平衡经济收益、环境保护及社会利益,从而在研究和实践层面指导如何“最佳”或“最优”地配置有限资源,增强旅游业发展的可持续性和决策的科学性。

问题

Volume 285, 1 May 2021, 112016.pdf

Juneau, Alaska, USA with a population of about 30,000 residents, set a record in 2023 with 1.6
million cruise passengers, hosting as many as seven large cruise ships on the busiest days, with
upwards of around 20,000 visitors.
[1] While these tourists bring in substantial revenue for the
city, on the order of $375 million,
[2] they also bring issues related to overcrowding that have the
city working to limit the number of guests. Ironically, Mendenhall Glacier, one of the premier
attractions in Juneau, has been receding, primarily due to warming temperatures caused, in part,
by overtourism. The glacier has receded the equivalent of eight football fields since 2007,
leading many locals to worry that the tourists and associated revenue will eventually disappear
with the glacier.
[3] Fortunately, Juneau has other attractions, including whale watching and rain
forests, and can maintain their status as a tourist destination, provided they can develop and enact
a plan for sustainable tourism.
Recent reports[4] have highlighted the hidden costs of tourism and the growing need to account
for and manage these costs to protect natural and cultural resources and build a sustainable
tourism industry on which numerous communities around the world depend. These hidden costs
include pressure on local infrastructure including drinking water supplies, waste management,
and an overall increased carbon footprint in tourist destinations, many of which lie in
environmentally sensitive regions. Local populations are also under pressure due to housing
supplies and costs, overcrowding, and rowdy tourists. Various measures have been enacted to
attempt to ease the burden, including increased hotel taxes, visitor fees, caps on the number of
daily visitors, and restrictions on alcohol sales and consumption. Additional revenue from taxes
have been used to support conservation, make improvements in infrastructure, and develop
community programs. While many locals that depend on tourism are concerned that additional
fees might drive tourists away and would rather see the numbers, and their businesses, grow,
many other locals are becoming disgruntled and either leaving or protesting against tourists.
• Build a model for a sustainable tourism industry in Juneau, Alaska. You may want to
consider factors such as the number of visitors, overall revenue, and measures enacted to
stabilize tourism. State clearly which factors you are optimizing, and which factors serve
as constraints. Include a plan for expenditures from any additional revenue and show how
these expenditures feed back into your model to promote sustainable tourism. Include a
sensitivity analysis and discuss which factors are most important.

Demonstrate how your model could be adapted to another tourist destination impacted by
overtourism. How does the choice of location effect which measures will be most
important? How might you use your model to promote attractions and/or locations that
have fewer tourists to develop a better balance?
• Write a one-page memo to the tourist council of Juneau outlining your predictions, the
effects of various measures, and your advice on how to optimize outcomes.

你是一名资深分析师与可持续旅游规划师,请你分析这篇文献对以上问题的解决有何帮助,并给出具体公式与方法

回答

文献对问题解决的帮助

这篇文献提供了以下关键帮助和方法,可以用来解决Juneau可持续旅游的建模问题:

  1. 问题建模的框架: 文献明确提出了一个基于**多目标优化(Multi-Objective Optimization, MOO)**的决策支持系统(DSS),该模型可以综合环境、经济和社会目标,通过设定约束条件和目标函数,寻找可行的最优或折中方案。这非常适合用于解决Juneau旅游管理中的复杂问题,包括资源分配、环境保护和社会效益平衡。

  2. 多维度指标体系: 文献中定义了一套涵盖环境、社会和经济可持续性的评估指标体系(如能源管理、水资源利用、废物处理、当地就业率等)。这套体系可以直接参考并调整,用于评估Juneau的旅游项目对环境、社会和经济的综合影响。

  3. 多目标优化的公式和方法:

    • 目标函数可以设为:

      max f(x)=jPTj(s.ct.)jxj\text{max } f(x) = \sum_{j} \text{PT}_j \cdot (\text{s.ct.})_j \cdot x_j

      其中:

      • xjx_j 是决策变量(二值,0或1),表示是否选择某项目;
      • PTj\text{PT}_j 是每个项目的总得分;
      • s.ct.\text{s.ct.} 是相对成本阈值,用于平衡评价。
    • 约束条件:

      • 预算约束(如总资金不能超过可用预算);
      • 环境约束(如废物回收率必须达到一定水平);
      • 社会约束(如一定比例的资金分配给发展中旅游区)。
  4. 场景分析: 文献展示了通过优化模型创建不同情景(如以总分最大化为目标 vs. 环境分数最大化为目标)的方法,并比较了它们的结果。每种情景都可以根据政策目标调整,例如,Juneau可以设定更多资金分配到冰川保护或社区支持项目中。

  5. 比较传统方法的局限性: 文献中指出了传统多准则决策方法(如加权和法、AHP)在预算约束下的不足,并强调多目标优化技术如何在资源分配和可持续性目标的平衡中表现更优。这为Juneau项目选择提供了理论依据和技术工具。


具体公式和方法在Juneau场景的应用

  1. 目标函数:

    max f(x)=j=1n(环境分数j+社会分数j+经济分数j)xj\text{max } f(x) = \sum_{j=1}^{n} \left(\text{环境分数}_j + \text{社会分数}_j + \text{经济分数}_j \right) \cdot x_j
    • xj{0,1}x_j \in \{0, 1\},表示是否选择第jj个旅游项目。
  2. 约束条件:

    • 总预算约束: j=1n成本jxj总预算\sum_{j=1}^{n} \text{成本}_j \cdot x_j \leq \text{总预算}
    • 环境目标约束(如废物处理、碳排放): 环境分数j最低标准,j\text{环境分数}_j \geq \text{最低标准}, \forall j
    • 发展区资源分配约束: j发展区资金j50%总预算\sum_{j \in \text{发展区}} \text{资金}_j \geq 50\% \cdot \text{总预算}
  3. 场景分析:

    • 场景1:目标是最大化综合得分,同时满足预算和政策约束。
    • 场景2:目标是最大化环境得分,并优先保护生态敏感区(如Mendenhall冰川)。
  4. 灵敏度分析:

    • 通过调整权重或约束条件(如提高环境得分权重),观察模型输出的变化,以评估不同政策目标的效果。

总结

这篇文献提供的多目标优化模型和评估框架,可以有效用于Juneau的可持续旅游规划。通过定义明确的目标函数和约束条件,以及进行场景和灵敏度分析,可以为政策制定者提供科学依据,平衡经济收益与生态保护需求,同时优化资源分配。

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