Study on International Logistics Service Trade and Sustainable Development of Ecological Environment

Literature Review

At present, the number of research results on the relationship between trade and environment is considerable (Chakraborty & Mukherjee, 2010). Domestic and foreign scholars mainly conduct theoretical and empirical analysis on the relationship between trade and environment from two aspects (Chen et al., 2018): the impact of international trade on environmental quality (Halicioglu & Ketenci, 2016) and the impact of environmental regulations (Dechezleprêtre & Sato, 2017) on international trade. The impact of international trade on environmental quality is mainly divided into three perspectives. The first is that the liberalization of trade can promote the sustainable development of the environment (Barros & Martínez-Zarzoso, 2022). Antweiler et al. (2001) used the pollution demand-supply model and selected SO2 data from 1971 to 1996 for fixed effects and random effects regression analysis. Research shows that the technical effects and scale effects caused by trade can reduce the pollution concentration by 1.25% to 1.5%. He (2010) used different econometric methods to investigate the impact of China’s service trade on China’s air, water, and other environmental indicators, concluding that technical effects have the effect of reducing pollution to a certain extent. The second is that international trade will cause increased environmental pollution (Jayadevappa & Chhatre 2000). Sun and Zang (2009) used a mixed unit input-output model to measure energy consumption and pollutant emissions from commodity exports. The results showed that as China’s export trade to the world grows, energy consumption intensity and pollutant emission intensity also increase at the same time. The third is that the relationship between the two is more complicated, and trade has no clear promotion or inhibition effect on the environment (Dean, 2002). Cole and Elliott (2003) studied the structural effects of trade based on the pollution paradise hypothesis and the factor endowment theory, respectively, and their conclusions showed that the net effect of trade on environmental quality varies with the selection of pollutants and dependent variables.

By reading the literature, I discovered that few scholars have studied the relationship between logistics service trade and the ecological environment (Evangelista et al., 2018).