公民保护团(CCC)对国家公园的影响以及其赋予国家公园的功能目前尚未被学界所关注。以政治—经济—社会—环境制度工具为视角,总结了CCC的发展及其对美国国家公园的影响,论证资源保护具有经济和环境教育功能。其中,资源保护的经济功能,是对传统上强调精神、科学、教育、游憩和游客体验功能,忽视经济功能观念的有益补充,尤其可以对中国将旅游开发作为资源经济效益必要条件的观念进行平衡,以期将经济功能的实现建立在保护本位的思想基础上。
The impacts of CCC on American national parks and their functions are neglected in academics. Taking a perspective from political-economic-social-environment system tools, this paper summarizes CCC's development and its impact on national parks, and demonstrates resource conservation has economic and environmental education functions. And the economic function of resource conservation is beneficially supplement to traditional cognition which emphasizes spiritual, scientific, educational, recreational and visitor experience functions but ignoring economic function. Also, the economic function of resource conservation is especially important for balancing China's idea which takes tourism development as an essential condition of resource economic benefits realization, and achieving economic function process must be built on the basis of the conservation orientation.