Preliminary Study on Sustainable Development of the Nature Reserves and Their Neighbouring Communities

Human beings depend on natural resources and natural environment for their survival and development. However, the limited understanding of human beings towards biodiversity and unreasonable collection and utilization of resources have destroyed natural ecosystems. Biodiversity conservation and sustainable development are two hot issues attracting global attention. Practices prove that establishment of nature reserves is one way to conserve biodiversity effectively. In under-developed areas, conflicts between nature reserves and adjacent areas are becoming more and more obvious. This paper summarizes the contents and characteristics of sustainable development, sequentially gives a proposal on an indicator system for evaluating sustainable development of nature reserves and the adjacent areas.