Who Generates the Carbon Emissions Embedded in Tourism Demand? Uncovering Hub Sectors and Strategic Roles in China’s Intersectoral Emission Network
This study integrates environmental input-output analysis with complex network theory to reveal that China's tourism-driven carbon emission network has evolved into a scale-free structure dominated by a few key hub sectors, suggesting that effective decarbonization policies must target these specific "receiver" and "carrier" sectors based on their distinct structural roles.