Analysis on Eco-Art Empowering the Development of Rural Idle Resources and the Integrated Development of Agriculture, Culture and Tourism
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Vitalizing rural idle resources is the core starting point for implementing rural revitalization and promoting the upgrading of the agriculture-culture-tourism industry. Traditional extensive resource development is likely to cause problems such as damage to the local rural ecology, homogenization of business forms, and cultural loss. In contrast, eco-art, which integrates the three attributes of ecological restoration, local aesthetic appreciation, and industrial value-added, has become a new empowering carrier for the refined activation of rural idle resources and the in-depth integration of agriculture, culture and tourism. Supported by the theories of ecological aesthetics, resource activation, and rural revitalization, this paper defines core concepts, sorts out the current types of rural idle resources and the mainstream empowerment models of eco-art, analyzes three core dilemmas of the current empowerment development, clarifies the internal mechanism of eco-art empowering resource activation and industrial integration, and puts forward optimization strategies from the three dimensions of policy, development, and operation combined with empirical analysis of two cases. The research shows that eco-art can realize the value reconstruction of rural idle space, land, and cultural resources, solve the pain points of shallow integration of agriculture, culture and tourism, and promote the coordinated development of rural ecological, economic, and social benefits.
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