Tourism-Related CO2 Emission and Its Decoupling Effects in China: A Spatiotemporal Perspective
The rapid development of the tourism industry has been accompanied by an increase in CO2 emissions and has a certain degree of impact on climate change. This study adopted the bottom-up approach to estimate the spatiotemporal change of CO2 emissions of the tourism industry in China and its 31 provin...
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| description | The rapid development of the tourism industry has been accompanied by an increase in CO2 emissions and has a certain degree of impact on climate change. This study adopted the bottom-up approach to estimate the spatiotemporal change of CO2 emissions of the tourism industry in China and its 31 provinces over the period 2000–2015. In addition, the decoupling index was applied to analyze the decoupling effects between tourism-related CO2 emissions and tourism economy from 2000 to 2015. The results showed that the total CO2 emissions of the tourism industry rose from 37.95 Mt in 2000 to 100.98 Mt in 2015 with an average annual growth rate of 7.1%. The highest CO2 emissions from the tourism industry occurred in eastern coastal China, whereas the least CO2 emissions were in the west of China. Additionally, the decoupling of CO2 emissions from economic growth in China’s tourism industry had mainly gone through the alternations of negative decoupling and weak decoupling. The decoupling states in most of the Chinese provinces were desirable during the study period. This study may serve as a scientific reference regarding decision-making in the sustainable development of the tourism industry in China. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-dd58a5a0c6a44dff90cd7390cdfb502e2025-02-03T01:21:37ZengWileyAdvances in Meteorology1687-93091687-93172018-01-01201810.1155/2018/14731841473184Tourism-Related CO2 Emission and Its Decoupling Effects in China: A Spatiotemporal PerspectiveZi Tang0Shizhen Bai1Changbo Shi2Lin Liu3Xiaohong Li4Postdoctoral Station of Business Administration, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150028, ChinaPostdoctoral Station of Business Administration, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150028, ChinaSchool of Tourism and Cuisine, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150076, ChinaSchool of Tourism and Cuisine, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150076, ChinaSchool of Tourism and Cuisine, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150076, ChinaThe rapid development of the tourism industry has been accompanied by an increase in CO2 emissions and has a certain degree of impact on climate change. This study adopted the bottom-up approach to estimate the spatiotemporal change of CO2 emissions of the tourism industry in China and its 31 provinces over the period 2000–2015. In addition, the decoupling index was applied to analyze the decoupling effects between tourism-related CO2 emissions and tourism economy from 2000 to 2015. The results showed that the total CO2 emissions of the tourism industry rose from 37.95 Mt in 2000 to 100.98 Mt in 2015 with an average annual growth rate of 7.1%. The highest CO2 emissions from the tourism industry occurred in eastern coastal China, whereas the least CO2 emissions were in the west of China. Additionally, the decoupling of CO2 emissions from economic growth in China’s tourism industry had mainly gone through the alternations of negative decoupling and weak decoupling. The decoupling states in most of the Chinese provinces were desirable during the study period. This study may serve as a scientific reference regarding decision-making in the sustainable development of the tourism industry in China.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1473184 |
| spellingShingle | Zi Tang Shizhen Bai Changbo Shi Lin Liu Xiaohong Li Tourism-Related CO2 Emission and Its Decoupling Effects in China: A Spatiotemporal Perspective Advances in Meteorology |
| title | Tourism-Related CO2 Emission and Its Decoupling Effects in China: A Spatiotemporal Perspective |
| title_full | Tourism-Related CO2 Emission and Its Decoupling Effects in China: A Spatiotemporal Perspective |
| title_fullStr | Tourism-Related CO2 Emission and Its Decoupling Effects in China: A Spatiotemporal Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tourism-Related CO2 Emission and Its Decoupling Effects in China: A Spatiotemporal Perspective |
| title_short | Tourism-Related CO2 Emission and Its Decoupling Effects in China: A Spatiotemporal Perspective |
| title_sort | tourism related co2 emission and its decoupling effects in china a spatiotemporal perspective |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1473184 |
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