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Assessing the Environmental Impact and Cost of the Tourism-Induced CO2, NOx, SOx Emission in China by Shi, Yalan ;Yu, Miaojing is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Assessing the Environmental Impact and Cost of the Tourism-Induced CO2, NOx, SOx Emission in China about?
Tourism, as one economic activity, results in a full range of environmental impacts globally as well as in China. However, the evaluation of environmental impacts is insufficient because of the strong correlation effect between tourism and other industries. This study attempted to assess the environmental impact and cost of the tourism-induced pollutant emissions (in a broad sense) at the national scale through constructing the environmental-economic input-output model. Our results suggested that the China’s total emission of CO2, NOx, SOx related to tourism industry increased from 42 × 106 t, 162 kt, 345 kt in 1995 to 157 × 106 t, 527 kt, 854 kt in 2009. The indirect CO2, NOx, and SOx emissions of tourism and related industries were nearly 6.8–11 times of their direct emission in travel agency. Most of these indirect emissions (73% of CO2 in 2009, 54% of NOx in 1995, 62% of SOx in 2009) are derived from the energy plants and industrial sectors. The sustainable tourism should largely depend on the realization of sustainable mobility and transportation, through the low-emission behavior and energy-saving technology. The emission reduction cost of tourism industry in China was 30,170
Who reads Assessing the Environmental Impact and Cost of the Tourism-Induced CO2, NOx, SOx Emission in China?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Environmental Science.
- Author
- Shi, Yalan ;Yu, Miaojing
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Social Sciences)