Quantifying direct and indirect carbon dioxide emissions of the Chinese tourism industry

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 126, Issue , 2016, Pages 586-594

  Meng, Weiqing ^a   Xu, Lingying ^b,c   Hu, Beibei ^a   Zhou, Jun ^a   Wang, Zhongliang ^a  

^a TIANJIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon emission; China; Input output model; Tourism industry; Tourism satellite account

Indexed keywords

EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CARBON EMISSIONS; CHINA; INPUT OUTPUT MODEL; TOURISM INDUSTRY; TOURISM SATELLITE ACCOUNT;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84981765166     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.03.067     Document Type: Article

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