Economic Growth and Air Pollution in the Persian (Arabian) Gulf States: Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis

Tsujimoto, Masao

doi:10.3775/jie.97.16

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“…This is an application of the theory of economic growth and income inequality postulated by Dr. Simon Kuznets, a Nobel laureate in Economics. The academic discussions on the EKC hypothesis have started in the 1990s by Grossman and Krueger (1991) and World Bank (1992), then, the discussions have extended from air pollutions to water contaminations and deforestation (Benoit et al, 2022;Csereklyei et al, 2017;Galeotti et al, 2009;Gopakumar et al, 2022;Markandya et al, 2006;Panayotou, 1997;Perman and Stern, 1999;Selden et al 1999;Sorgea and Neumann, 2020;Stern and Common 2001;Tsujimoto 2018 and. Especially, in the hypothesis, environmental impacts increase up to a certain level of economic growth and then start to decrease, showing an inverted U-shaped curve at the turning point.…”

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Public Utilities’ Corporate Growth and Environmental Conservation: Evidence from Japan

Tsujimoto

2023

IJEEP

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This study explores how public utilities in Japan demonstrate the achievement of both growth and environmental conservation, by using financial performance and environmental impact data from publicly traded companies of power, gas, transport, telecommunication, and postal services before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, the regression analyses confirm the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis and an inverted N-shaped curve in 2019, 2020, and 2021. Second, the deciding factors are the result of the interaction of the following five points, which have been more encouraged and promoted in Japan in recent years: (1) regulatory reforms such as energy market opening; (2) investors’ emphasis on environment, society, and governance (ESG); (3) guidelines and assessments by economic organizations, rating agencies, and environmental nonprofit groups; (4) citizens’ professional ethics and willingness for environmental conservation and social contribution; and (5) endogenous efforts by the public utilities as members of society. Third, an approach that focuses on ESG and total shareholders return (TSR) can contribute not only to the achievement of both growth and environmental conservation but also to the expansion of the academic literature.

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Public Utilities’ Corporate Growth and Environmental Conservation: Evidence from Japan

Tsujimoto

2023

IJEEP

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“…In previous studies, the influence of socio-economic factors on atmospheric environment has been widely reported in different spatio-temporal scales. For example, the nonlinear relationship between economic growth and atmospheric environment is analyzed based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve [21,22]; Buehn, et al (2013) investigated the temporal and spatial variation of air quality across 122 countries in the past 20 years, and found that economic growth shows closely relation with air quality. The energy consumption and industrialization are important factors leading to deteriorated urban air quality, as they are accompanied with the emission of pollutants, especially the consumption of coal.…”

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Revealing the Impact of Socio-Economic Metrics on the Air Quality on Northeast China Using Multivariate Statistical Analysis

Yang¹,

Wang²,

Li³

et al. 2022

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Urban air pollution is an important issue facing China in the midst of rapid urbanization and economic development. To investigate the regional air quality characteristics and its drivers in Northeast China, this paper compares the spatial and temporal characteristics of air quality between cities and analyzes the influence of socioeconomic variables by using statistical analysis methods and geographic model. The results show that the air quality index (AQI) showed a downward trend in time and decreased from southwest to northeast in space. The duration of heavy pollution condition was not only controlled by the distribution of pollutant concentrations, but also influenced by the topography. Based on the mean concentrations of the 6 pollutants, 37 cities were divided into 4 categories by cluster analysis, reflecting the levels and characteristics of pollution. The level of industrialization was the most important cause for air quality, followed by the size of the city and the degree of economic development. The AQI predicted by geographic weighted regression model (GWR) showed a lower goodness of fit in developed cities, indicating that the factors controlling air quality are more complex in these regions. The influence of different socioeconomic metrics on AQI showed large spatial differences. AQI was more sensitive to variations in socioeconomic metrics in less developed small and medium-sized cities. This study provides a theoretical basis for revealing the causes of urban air pollution and formulating pollution control measures in Northeast China.

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“…Energy use and transportation are main sources of air pollutants, which are closely related to the local patterns of social and economic development. Generally, the energy consumption is positively correlated with the level of regional economy, but the effect of energy consumption on air quality varies between regions [12][13][14]. In developed countries and regions, the wide use of cleaner fuels and proven technologies of cleaner production promotes the efficiency and reduces the emission of waste gas.…”

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Influence of Socioeconomic Factors and Energy Supply Structures on Air Quality: a Case Study in Shandong Province, North China

Zhang¹,

Li²,

Xia³

2022

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Currently, air pollution becomes a wide-concerned global environmental problem. In Shandong Province of North China, the air quality deterioration has greatly restricted the development of society and threatened human health. In this study, air quality index (AQI) and 6 pollutants monitored in 2019 are analyzed associated with socioeconomic factors, aiming to identify the characteristics and driving factors of air pollution. Our results show that great seasonality and spatial heterogeneity exists for AQI and pollutants. The variation patterns result from mechanisms of pollutants formation, and are mainly dependent on the coal burning-dominated energy production and climatic periodicity. Correlation analysis shows that AQI decreases with the increase of factors of city size, resource and energy consumption, transportation and economy, but is weakly related to population. The ratio of energy supply for different purpose also influences the air pollutants. The increased proportion of electric supply for productive use will result in anabatic pollution caused by particle matters, oxynitrate and oxysulfide. This study provides useful information for the better control of air pollution and insights for the making of environmental-friendly strategies for energy supply.

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Economic Growth and Air Pollution in the Persian (Arabian) Gulf States: Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Public Utilities’ Corporate Growth and Environmental Conservation: Evidence from Japan

Public Utilities’ Corporate Growth and Environmental Conservation: Evidence from Japan

Revealing the Impact of Socio-Economic Metrics on the Air Quality on Northeast China Using Multivariate Statistical Analysis

Influence of Socioeconomic Factors and Energy Supply Structures on Air Quality: a Case Study in Shandong Province, North China

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