Examining the nexus between tourist arrivals and transportation sector-based emissions in Mediterranean countries: evidence from quantile regressions via method of moments

IF 2.9 4区环境科学与生态学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Air Quality Atmosphere and Health Pub Date : 2024-01-16 DOI:10.1007/s11869-024-01502-9

Yüksel Yiğit, Alper Aslan, Buket Altinoz, Alican Umut, Ilhan Ozturk, Usama Al-Mulali, Alina Raboshuk

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Abstract

In this study, the impact of international tourist arrivals on CO₂ emissions caused by transportation is investigated using the quantile regression via method of moments (MMQR) approach with data for the period 1995–2019 from selected Mediterranean countries. Moreover, testing of tourism-induced environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is included in the analysis in terms of transportation sector-based pollution. The U-shaped correlation between economic growth and transportation sector-based emissions in all quintiles is revealed, as well as tourist arrivals are found to increase emissions up to higher quintile levels. At lower quantile levels, an increase in tourist arrivals increases the emission level by approximately 0.06%, while at medium quantile levels this positive effect is approximately 0.07%. This result indicates the necessity of considering emissions from the transportation sector in the tourism-induced EKC for new policy insights. In addition, the findings highlight the environmental impacts caused by tourism through the prism of transportation sector.

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考察地中海国家游客到访量与交通部门排放量之间的关系：通过矩量法进行量化回归得出的证据

本研究采用矩量回归（MMQR）方法，利用部分地中海国家 1995-2019 年期间的数据，研究了国际游客抵达对交通造成的二氧化碳排放的影响。此外，分析还包括对旅游业引发的环境库兹涅茨曲线（EKC）假说进行检验。结果表明，在所有五分位数中，经济增长与基于交通部门的排放之间都存在 U 型相关性，而且游客抵达会增加排放，直至较高的五分位数水平。在较低的五分位数水平上，游客人数的增加会使排放量增加约 0.06%，而在中等五分位数水平上，这种正效应约为 0.07%。这一结果表明，有必要在旅游业诱发的 EKC 中考虑交通部门的排放，以获得新的政策启示。此外，研究结果还从交通部门的角度强调了旅游业对环境的影响。

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Air Quality Atmosphere and Health ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-

CiteScore

8.80

自引率

2.00%

发文量

146

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Air Quality, Atmosphere, and Health is a multidisciplinary journal which, by its very name, illustrates the broad range of work it publishes and which focuses on atmospheric consequences of human activities and their implications for human and ecological health. It offers research papers, critical literature reviews and commentaries, as well as special issues devoted to topical subjects or themes. International in scope, the journal presents papers that inform and stimulate a global readership, as the topic addressed are global in their import. Consequently, we do not encourage submission of papers involving local data that relate to local problems. Unless they demonstrate wide applicability, these are better submitted to national or regional journals. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health addresses such topics as acid precipitation; airborne particulate matter; air quality monitoring and management; exposure assessment; risk assessment; indoor air quality; atmospheric chemistry; atmospheric modeling and prediction; air pollution climatology; climate change and air quality; air pollution measurement; atmospheric impact assessment; forest-fire emissions; atmospheric science; greenhouse gases; health and ecological effects; clean air technology; regional and global change and satellite measurements. This journal benefits a diverse audience of researchers, public health officials and policy makers addressing problems that call for solutions based in evidence from atmospheric and exposure assessment scientists, epidemiologists, and risk assessors. Publication in the journal affords the opportunity to reach beyond defined disciplinary niches to this broader readership.