A review on Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis using bibliometric and meta-analysis

Sarkodıe, Samuel Asumadu; Strezov, Vladimir

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.276

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“…Trade is the share of GDP that totals import and export of goods and services. It serves as an economic catalyst to either environmental pollution or sustainability [37] -depending on the type of goods and services imported and exported. Industry value-added encompasses value-addition in the manufacturing, construction, mining, water, electricity and gas sectorswithout accounting for natural resources depletion and degradation [36].…”

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Global effect of urban sprawl, industrialization, trade and economic development on carbon dioxide emissions

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Owusu

Leirvik

2020

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Significant progress has been made towards mitigating climate change and its impacts across countries. However, the transboundary effect of CO 2 emissions means that excluding the actions and inactions of certain countries and territories that escalate emissions is alarming. On this note, we examined the heterogeneous contribution of immediate and underlying drivers of emissions across 206 countries and territories for the period spanning 1960-2018. We deployed a dynamic panel estimation technique that accounts for cross-sectional dependence, heterogeneous parameters across countries, and dynamic correlated effects-a constraint for socio-economic, consumption-and pollution-based models. A global accounting of economic policy and debt, population structure, density and urbanization, and environmental-related aggregate indicators in a carbon emission function is presented. The empirical results demonstrate that the overarching effect of the instantaneous increase in economic development, population dynamics and energy utilization stimulate global emissions at national, urban and household levels across countries and territories. Industrialization and trade were found to escalate global pollution levels due to the impact of carbonized and energy-intensive economic structure in many developing and developed economies. Urbanization, urban income growth, and urban energy consumption are intertwined, hence, the institution of urban-related policy interventions is likely to negate the trio-impact on environmental sustainability. The triple effect (exploitation of natural resources, production and consumption) of economic development spurs environmental pollution, thus, calls for structural change from a carbonized to a decarbonized economy. The complex interaction highlights diversification of the energy mix by the inclusion of clean and renewable energy sources, fossil fuel-switching, and modern technologies like carbon capture and storage to improve energy efficiency and decline emission intensities. OPEN ACCESS RECEIVED

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Global effect of urban sprawl, industrialization, trade and economic development on carbon dioxide emissions

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Owusu

Leirvik

2020

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…Some focus on specific methodological approaches or conceptual angles, e.g. theorizing the energy-growth relation (Stern 2011), econometric 'causality' testing between energy and growth (Ozturk 2010, Kalimeris et al 2014, Tiba and Omri 2017, emissions and growth (Mardani et al 2019), the problematic and inconclusive evidence on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (Dinda 2004, Stern 2004, Carson 2010, Tiba and Omri 2017, Sarkodie and Strezov 2019, or the role of efficiency versus consumption growth for increasing energy use and emissions (Lenzen 2016). These reviews all support a fundamental relationship between resource use and emissions with economic growth, however they usually find either no convincing evidence for absolute decoupling at the required scale, or remain inconclusive.…”

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A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part I: bibliometric and conceptual mapping

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As long as economic growth is a major political goal, decoupling growth from resource use and emissions is a prerequisite for a sustainable net-zero emissions future. However, empirical evidence for absolute decoupling, i.e. decreasing resource use and emissions at the required scale despite continued economic growth, is scarce and scattered across different research streams. In this two-part systematic review, we assess how and to what extent decoupling has been observed and what can be learnt for addressing the sustainability and climate crisis. Based on a transparent approach, we systematically identify and screen more than 11 500 scientific papers, eventually analyzing full texts of 835 empirical studies on the relationship between economic growth (GDP), resource use (materials and energy) and greenhouse gas emissions. Part I of the review examines how decoupling has been investigated across three research streams: energy, materials and energy, and emissions. Part II synthesizes the empirical evidence and policy implications (Haberl et al 2020 Environ. Res. Lett. 15 065003). In part I, we examine the topical, temporal and geographical scopes, methods of analysis, institutional networks and prevalent conceptual angles. We find that in this rapidly growing literature, the vast majority of studies-decomposition, 'causality' and Environmental Kuznets Curve analysis-approach the topic from a statistical-econometric point of view, while hardly acknowledging thermodynamic principles on the role of energy and materials for socio-economic activities. A potentially fundamental incompatibility between economic growth and systemic societal changes to address the climate crisis is rarely considered. We conclude that the existing wealth of empirical evidence merits braver conceptual advances than we have seen thus far. Future work should focus on comprehensive multi-indicator long-term analyses, conceptually grounded on the fundamental biophysical basis of socio-economic activities, incorporating the role of global supply chains as well as the wider societal role and preconditions of economic growth.

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“…The interaction among environmental degradation and economic performance either in terms of a firm, a sector or economy has been mostly studied with the use of atmospheric indicators, while literature on the EKC hypothesis employs land indicators, like water ecosystems, biodiversity indicators, and freshwater indicators. The majority of the existing literature has argued that an inversed U-shape exists for the environmental degradation income per capita relationship, the steepness of which is mostly affected by income elasticity, scale, composition and technique effects, and international trade [19] (Sarkodie and Strezov 2019).…”

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“…The majority of the empirical studies are based on the carbon emissions, since global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are mainly attributed to carbon emissions [19]. Furthermore the carbon emissions are mostly generated by sectors related to energy use, forestry, agricultural processes and land use [20].…”

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“…Having considered all the aforementioned issues, it would be of interest to examine the interrelationships among carbon emissions generated by agriculture and agricultural income in different EU countries with heterogeneity in the economic conditions of each country and also particularities in the farming systems. The major though common issue is the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy and the specific agro-environmental measures as formatted within the last decade [18,19].…”

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Numerous linkages among Agriculture and climate change have been identified and validated in global terms. In European Union, the economic performance–carbon dioxide emission relationship has become a particularly high priority issue for Common agricultural policy within the last decade, attracting scientific interest. Within this socio–economic framework, the present work studies the relationship between agricultural carbon emissions equivalents and income per capita for the agricultural sector in different EU countries with the assistance of the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) cointegration technique. Our findings validate the existence of a strong relationship between GHG emissions and agricultural income, since the cointegration among the two variables is established in all instances, while the asymmetric impact of agricultural income on carbon emissions may well provide policy makers with tools which when implemented, may well promote the increase of agricultural income along with GHG effect mitigation in a successful way.

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A review on Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis using bibliometric and meta-analysis

Cited by 461 publications

References 64 publications

Global effect of urban sprawl, industrialization, trade and economic development on carbon dioxide emissions

Global effect of urban sprawl, industrialization, trade and economic development on carbon dioxide emissions

A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part I: bibliometric and conceptual mapping

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Economic Performance in EU Agriculture: An Empirical Study in a Non-Linear Framework

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