Investigating the energy-environmental Kuznets curve

Luzzati, Tommaso; Orsini, Marco

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2008.07.006

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“…An EKC has been identified for some environmental metrics like energy use, emissions and water quality (Luzzati & Orsini 2009;Orubu & Omotor 2011;Apergis & Ozturk 2015), but has been contested as an empirical illusion (Stern 2004) and fails to appear in other studies with the same or other environmental indicators (Koop & Tole 1999;Kijima et al 2010;Ozturk & Al-Mulali 2015), including those related to conservation (Dietz & Adger 2003;Mills & Waite 2009). …”

Section: Factormentioning

confidence: 99%

Governance explains variation in national responses to the biodiversity crisis

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SUMMARYGrowing concern about the biodiversity crisis has led to a proliferation of conservation responses, but with wide variation between countries in the levels of engagement and investment. Much of this variation is inevitably attributed to differences between nations in wealth. However, the relationship between environmentalism and wealth is complex and it is increasingly apparent that other factors are also involved. We review hypotheses that have been developed to explain variation in broad environmentalism and show that many of the factors that explain such variation in individuals, such as wealth, age and experience, also explain differences between nation states. We then assess the extent to which these factors explain variation between nation states in responses to and investment in the more specific area of biodiversity conservation. Unexpectedly, quality of governance explained substantially more variation in public and state investment in biodiversity conservation than did direct measures of wealth. The results inform assessments of where conservation investments might most profitably be directed in the future and suggest that metrics relating to governance might be of considerable use in conservation planning.

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Section: Factormentioning

confidence: 99%

Governance explains variation in national responses to the biodiversity crisis

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“…In a similar way, some authors have carried out empirical studies of the EKC in its simplest way, using TPES and GDP as the only variables [28,29]. Other authors have developed more complex analyses in order to empirically validate the EKC hypothesis, including other variables in the estimation, as well as using different environmental pollutants to measure human pressure through energy and material use, reaching different and not concluding results [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37].…”

Section: Theoretical Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Going beyond energy intensity to understand the energy metabolism of nations: The case of Argentina

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Ramos-Martín

2012

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The link between energy consumption and economic growth has been widely studied in the economic literature. Understanding this relationship is important from both an environmental and a socio-economic point of view, as energy consumption is crucial to economic activity and human environmental impact. This relevance is even higher for developing countries, since energy consumption per unit of output varies through the phases of development, increasing from an agricultural stage to an industrial one and then decreasing for certain service based economies.In the Argentinean case, the relevance of energy consumption to economic development seems to be particularly important. While energy intensity seems to exhibit a U-Shaped curve from 1990 to 2003 decreasing slightly after that year, total energy consumption increases along the period of analysis. Why does this happen? How can we relate this result with the sustainability debate? All these questions are very important due to Argentinean hydrocarbons dependence and due to the recent reduction in oil and natural gas reserves, which can lead to a lack of security of supply.In this paper we study Argentinean energy consumption pattern for the period 1990-2007, to discuss current and future energy and economic sustainability. To this purpose, we developed a conventional analysis, studying energy intensity, and a non conventional analysis, using the Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) accounting methodology. Both methodologies show that the development process followed by Argentina has not been good enough to assure sustainability in the long term. Instead of improving energy use, energy intensity has increased. The current composition of its energy mix, and the recent economic crisis in Argentina, as well as its development path, are some of the possible explanations.

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“…Empirical studies show that Energy-EKC can be observed in some countries, in which the total energy consumption (i.e., per capita energy consumption) is used as the indicator of energy consumption [28,29]. If carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels are considered as one proxy of energy consumption, then Energy-EKC is also observed in some countries by some studies on EKC, focusing on carbon dioxide emissions [13,30,31].…”

Section: Energy Wave Transition Over Incomementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Energy-EKC refers to the increase in energy consumption to satisfy the demand resulting from economic growth. Energy-EKC declines as technology develops after a turning point [27,28].…”

Section: Energy Wave Transition Over Incomementioning

confidence: 99%