Ecological and economic growth interdependency in the Asian economies: an empirical analysis

Uddin, Gazi A.; Alam, Khorshed; Gow, Jeff

doi:10.1007/s11356-019-04791-1

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“…Depending on evidence from Pakistan, Hassan et al (2019) examined the influence of per capita real natural resources on environmental degradation and confirmed the contribution of per capita real natural resources to environmental degradation. Similarly, Uddin et al (2019) studied the association between real income and ecological footprints for 14 Asian countries and they confirmed the presence of quadratic relation between environmental degradation and real income in Pakistan, Nepal, India and Malaysia. Desktek and Sarkodie (2019) concluded the existence of two-way causal relationship between real income and ecological footprints for 11 newly industrialized countries (NICs).…”

Section: An Empirical Analysis Of Dynamic Linkagesmentioning

confidence: 74%

Dynamic linkages amongst ecological footprints, fossil fuel energy consumption and globalization: an empirical analysis

Ibrahiem

Hanafy

2020

MEQ

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the dynamic linkages amongst ecological footprints, fossil fuel consumption, real income, globalization and population in Egypt in the period from 1971 to 2014.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) and dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) methods to investigate the long run relationships amongst ecological footprints, economic growth, globalization, fossil fuel energy consumption and population. Moreover, the Toda–Yamamoto approach is conducted to examine the causal relationships between variables.FindingsEmpirical results of FMOLS and DOLS methods show that real income and fossil fuel consumption are responsible for deteriorating the environment, while globalization and population are found to mitigate it. As for Toda–Yamamoto–Granger causal relationship results, unidirectional causal relation from globalization, population and fossil fuel energy consumption to the ecological footprint exists. Moreover, bidirectional causal relation between real income on the one hand and globalization and the ecological footprint on the other hand is found.Originality/valueUsing carbon dioxide emissions has major weakness as carbon dioxide emissions are considered only part of the total environmental deterioration so this study is the first study for Egypt that uses the ecological footprint as an indicator for environmental quality and environmental pollution and links it with globalization, economic growth, population and fossil fuel energy consumption. Moreover, realizing the direction of causality between these variables might help policymakers in designing the policies to promote the shift towards clean energy sources, especially that achieving sustainable economic growth with more contribution to the global economy depending on diversification of energy sources without deteriorating the environment is considered one of the most important objectives of Egypt’s National Vision 2030.

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Section: An Empirical Analysis Of Dynamic Linkagesmentioning

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Dynamic linkages amongst ecological footprints, fossil fuel energy consumption and globalization: an empirical analysis

Ibrahiem

Hanafy

2020

MEQ

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“…It can provide the needed infrastructures, reduce poverty, and improve people's living standard. On the flip side, it has its downsides, especially when an economy pays less attention to its natural environment while intensifying its desire for affluence (Meo et al, 2020a(Meo et al, , 2020bAhmed et al, 2019aAhmed et al, , 2019bNathaniel, 2019;Uddin et al, 2019;Omojolaibi and Nathaniel, 2020). In Africa, South Africa is arguably the most developed.…”

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Modelling the Impact of Energy Consumption, Natural Resources, and Urbanization on Ecological Footprint in South Africa: Assessing the Moderating Role of Human Capital

Nathaniel¹,

Bekun²,

Faizulayev³

2021

IJEEP

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Apart from being the most urbanized and largest emitter of CO 2 emissions in Africa, South Africa currently harbours an ecological deficit territory mainly due to its desire to attain more growth with less attention to its natural environment. Since environmental distortions are mainly an outcome of human activities, this study becomes the first to investigate the linkage between natural resource (NR), human capital, energy consumption, and ecological footprint (EF) in South Africa. Findings from the long-run results reveal that energy consumption, natural resource, economic growth, and urbanization add to the EF, while human capital curtails environmental deterioration. The interaction between human capital and urbanization helps in mitigating environmental degradation, which suggests a moderating effect of human capital in urban sustainability. The CCR, DOLS and FMOLS confirm the robustness of the findings. A feedback causality exists between natural resource and economic growth, and between economic growth and EF. Natural resources and urbanization also Granger cause EF. Lastly, policies relating to urban and natural resource sustainability and human capital development are discussed.

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“…Climate change lowers profitability and reduces investment probability and resulting in cutting output in the short and long runs: On the one hand, deficient demand brings employment falling in short run; on the other hand, productivity growth becomes slower, such lowering the potential income in the long run (Rezai et al, 2018). In many countries, such as in China, reducing carbon emissions is quite difficulty since it will handicap China's economic growth, and will not decrease carbon emissions in a long period (Wang et al, 2011); while for 14 Asian countries, the natural environment will become a victim of increased economic growth (Uddin, Alam, & Gow, 2019). Despite that, not many of them have taken adequate measures to increase their capacity of bioproductive or to reduce their energy inefficient until now (Uddin et al, 2019); however, efficiency is crucial and many scholars estimate energy efficiency (Song & Li, 2019); similarly, during the period of 1995-2013, for the 12 transition economies with high income, the economic growth has increased the energy consumption, while for the countries with low income, the former has reduced the latter (Pablo-Romero, Sa´nchez-Braza, & Anna, 2019); even some scholars have also assessed the cost of ecological losses: The economic losses of ecological cost is $2,076/person in South Korean during 1980-2000 (Lee & Kim, 2018).…”

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“…In many countries, such as in China, reducing carbon emissions is quite difficulty since it will handicap China's economic growth, and will not decrease carbon emissions in a long period (Wang et al, 2011); while for 14 Asian countries, the natural environment will become a victim of increased economic growth (Uddin, Alam, & Gow, 2019). Despite that, not many of them have taken adequate measures to increase their capacity of bioproductive or to reduce their energy inefficient until now (Uddin et al, 2019); however, efficiency is crucial and many scholars estimate energy efficiency (Song & Li, 2019); similarly, during the period of 1995-2013, for the 12 transition economies with high income, the economic growth has increased the energy consumption, while for the countries with low income, the former has reduced the latter (Pablo-Romero, Sa´nchez-Braza, & Anna, 2019); even some scholars have also assessed the cost of ecological losses: The economic losses of ecological cost is $2,076/person in South Korean during 1980-2000 (Lee & Kim, 2018). We should realize that we must pay attention to the use of ecological characteristics, which are completely different from those of artificial resources, if we expect the quality of life to be sustained.…”

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Spatiotemporal Relationship Between Ecological Environment and Economic Development in Tropical and Subtropical Regions of Asia

Shi

Tian

Zhang

et al. 2019

Tropical Conservation Science

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This article is devoted to study the coordination coupling relationship between economic development and ecological environment in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia to reflect the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of the coordination in different regions. Using the entropy method and Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression model, we empirically analyze 14 tropical and subtropical countries in Asia from 2003 to 2016. The empirical results show that most of the tropical and subtropical sample countries in Asia are at an intermediate coordination coupling level between economic development and ecological environment; the economic development lag type is the main one, and the ecological development lag type is less. At the same time, the positive effects between economic development and ecological environment in most sample countries are more obvious. Spatially, the ecological environment in the north of the Asian tropical and subtropical countries has a positive effect on economic development rather than that in the south and tends to be positive. The positive effect of economic development on ecological environment in the faster economic development areas is better than that in the slower economic development areas, and more areas tend to play negative effects. The research in this article provides a basis for strengthening ecological environment protection in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, promoting the coordinated development of economic and ecological environment. Further, we put forward some corresponding policy recommendations.

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Ecological and economic growth interdependency in the Asian economies: an empirical analysis

Cited by 46 publications

References 31 publications

Dynamic linkages amongst ecological footprints, fossil fuel energy consumption and globalization: an empirical analysis

Dynamic linkages amongst ecological footprints, fossil fuel energy consumption and globalization: an empirical analysis

Modelling the Impact of Energy Consumption, Natural Resources, and Urbanization on Ecological Footprint in South Africa: Assessing the Moderating Role of Human Capital

Spatiotemporal Relationship Between Ecological Environment and Economic Development in Tropical and Subtropical Regions of Asia

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