Do economic development and tourism heterogeneously influence ecological sustainability? Implications for sustainable development
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.The international travel and tourism sector and economic development show an inverse U-shaped link with ecological deterioration in China. While tourism can mitigate environmental harm, its impact varies significantly across provinces and development levels.
Area Of Science
- Environmental Science
- Ecological Economics
- Regional Economics
Background
- Anthropogenic emissions from economic development challenge ecological sustainability.
- International travel and tourism offer potential for ecological system sustainability across development levels.
- Understanding these dynamics in China's diverse provincial units is crucial.
Purpose Of The Study
- To investigate the diversified effects of international travel and tourism, and economic development on ecological deterioration.
- To analyze the roles of urban agglomeration and energy use efficiency in this relationship.
- To examine these impacts across China's provincial units with varying development levels.
Main Methods
- Modified stochastic estimation of environmental impacts by regression on population, affluence, and technology (STIRPAT) model.
- Development of an international travel and tourism sector index (ITTI).
- Application of continuously updated bias correction strategy (CUBCS) and continuously updated fully modified strategy (CUFMS) for long-term estimations.
- Utilized bootstrapping-based causality technique to determine causality directions.
Main Results
- An inverse U-type association was found between ITTI, economic development, and ecological deterioration in aggregate panels.
- ITTI mitigated ecological deterioration in eleven provinces and boosted it in fourteen; economic development followed the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) theory in only four provinces.
- Regional disparities were significant: ITTI impacts varied across China's east, central, and west zones, with mixed effects from economic development, urban agglomeration, and energy use efficiency.
Conclusions
- The international travel and tourism sector's impact on ecological deterioration is complex and context-dependent across Chinese provinces.
- Economic development does not consistently follow the EKC theory, indicating varied environmental outcomes.
- Policy recommendations are derived from these empirical findings to manage ecological sustainability considering tourism and development levels.
Keywords:
Ecological deterioration Economic development Energy use efficiency Heterogeneity International travel and tourism sector Sustainable Development Urban agglomerationView abstract on PubMed
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