Human well-being versus ecological footprint in MENA countries: A trade-off?

Kassouri, Yacouba; Altıntaş, Halil

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110405

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“…Rees and Wackernagel (1996) introduced the conception of the EFP, which measures the bio-productive surface required to sustain a population. The demand side of the EFP deals with the ecological resources that a specific community needs to produce the natural assets it consumes and to absorbing waste, particularly carbon emissions (Bello et al 2018;Kassouri and Altıntaş 2020;Long et al 2020).…”

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The dynamic links among energy consumption, tourism growth, and the ecological footprint: the role of environmental quality in 38 IEA countries

Khan

Hou

2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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We examine the impact of energy consumption and tourism growth on the ecological footprints and economic growth of 38 International Energy Agency (IEA) countries, as moderated by labor and capital, over the 1995-2018 period. We develop a comprehensive empirical analysis that applies second-generation unit root and cross-section dependence analysis. The cointegration analysis indicates long-run relationships among the variables, while the fully modified least square (FMOLS) approach specifies that energy consumption promotes economic growth and degrades environmental quality in the long run, and tourism growth improves environmental quality and stimulates economic growth in the long run. In addition, the result of a pairwise Granger causality test reveals bidirectional causality between energy consumption and economic growth and unidirectional causality from the ecological footprint to energy consumption. Policy implications for theory and practice and directions for future research in the area are presented.

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The dynamic links among energy consumption, tourism growth, and the ecological footprint: the role of environmental quality in 38 IEA countries

Khan

Hou

2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

181

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“…In former USSR countries, RFs dropped significantly around 1990; since then, both HDI and RFs are rising, with wide differences between the sub-regions: Caucasus remains left of the overall curve; Central Asia, in contrast, has crossed the overall scatter and has now comparably high RFs. The MENA region shows two different patterns [29]; while the Gulf States are clearly at the lower right of the curve (higher MF, comparatively lower HDI), most other parts of the region are very close to the overall pattern. Many Asian and Latin American sub-regions with medium HDI show a trend towards higher development with lower RF, starting from a position at the lower right of the curve, slowly catching up with QL and resource efficiency, and possible examples for the resource-dependent countries currently stagnating at the lower right, such as Southern African and Central Asian countries.…”

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“…Instead of production-based indicators, a number of scholars [28,29] used the ecological footprint, a composite consumption-based indicator [30], and Tukker et al [31] a set of resource footprints, including carbon, material and land footprints, to assess these against HDI and happy life years, returning similar results. Vita et al [32] investigated the Carbon Footprint related to the satisfaction of different human needs and showed that objective indicators of well-being have a threshold with respect to related footprints, while subjective indicators do not show a clear relationship.…”

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Towards a Comprehensive Framework of the Relationships between Resource Footprints, Quality of Life, and Economic Development

Cibulka

Giljum

2020

Sustainability

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The relationship between economic affluence, quality of life, and environmental implications of production and consumption activities is a recurring issue in sustainability discussions. A number of studies examined selected relationships, but the general implications for future development options to achieve environmentally and socially sustainable development of countries at different levels of per capita resource footprints, quality of life, and income have not yet been investigated in detail. In this study, we use a global dataset with 173 countries to assess the overall relationship between resource footprints, quality of life, and economic development over the period of 1990–2015. We select the material footprint and carbon footprint and contrast them with the Human Development Index, the Happiness Index, and GDP per capita. Regression analyses show that the relationship between various resource footprints and quality of life generally follows a logarithmic path of development, while resource footprints and GDP per capita are linearly connected. From the empirical results, we derive a generalized path of development and cluster countries along this path. Within this comprehensive framework, we discuss options to change the path to respect planetary and social boundaries through a combination of resource efficiency increases, substitution of industries and sufficiency of consumption. We conclude that decoupling and green growth will not realize sustainable development if planetary boundaries have already been transgressed.

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“…In other words, among the 59 countries that are included in the very high human development group in the update of the HDI [17], we selected the one with the lowest EF pc , considering it as the best existing example of the trade-off between human development and environmental impact (see [41]).…”

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Reconciling a positive ecological balance with human development: a quantitative assessment

Tamburino¹,

Bravo²

2020

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To keep humanity's environmental impact within planetary boundaries, clear indicators and evaluation criteria are essential. We introduce a new criterion based on two constraints, accounting for both ecological and human sustainability. The ecological constraint is defined trough a novel indicator, the eco-balance, grounded on the well known concept of ecological footprint and the new concept of population biodensity. The human sustainability constraint is based on the minimum per capita consumption of natural capital needed to achieve a sufficient level of human well-being. ´ The application of our criterion to world countries shows where technological improvements and changes in consumption patterns are sufficient to reach sustainability, and where actions on population and restoring ecological capital are also needed. This highlights complex patterns going beyond simplistic schemes, such as overconsumption vs. overpopulation or developed vs. developing countries.

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Human well-being versus ecological footprint in MENA countries: A trade-off?

Cited by 122 publications

References 99 publications

The dynamic links among energy consumption, tourism growth, and the ecological footprint: the role of environmental quality in 38 IEA countries

The dynamic links among energy consumption, tourism growth, and the ecological footprint: the role of environmental quality in 38 IEA countries

Towards a Comprehensive Framework of the Relationships between Resource Footprints, Quality of Life, and Economic Development

Reconciling a positive ecological balance with human development: a quantitative assessment

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