Rates of urbanisation and the resiliency of air and water quality

Duh, Jiunn-Der; Shandas, Vivek; Chang, Heejun; George, Linda A.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.05.002

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“…Similar results are documented by, among others, Pao and Tsai (2010) and Sharma (2011). The impact of an urban population on CO2 emissions is negative, thus contrasting the view that the development of urbanization leads to degraded environmental quality (e.g., Duh et al, 2008;Kahn and Schwartz, 2008). Table 4 In Specification 2, economic growth continues to affect FDI inflows significantly at the 5% level, but a 1% increase in economic growth leads to a lower increase in the CO2 emissions, financial development, and the real exchange rate also explain the evolution of FDI inflows (Specification 2) in the same manner as for the global panel, while the impact from capital stock is insignificant.…”

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Causal interactions between CO2 emissions, FDI, and economic growth: Evidence from dynamic simultaneous-equation models

2014

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In this article, we investigate the causality links between CO2 emissions, foreign direct investment, and economic growth using dynamic simultaneous-equation panel data models for a global panel of 54 countries over the period 1990-2011. We also implement these empirical models for 3 regional sub-panels: Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East, North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. Our results provide evidence of bidirectional causality between FDI inflows and economic growth for all the panels and between FDI and CO2 for all the panels, except Europe and North Asia. They also indicate the existence of unidirectional causality running from CO2 emissions to economic growth, with the exception of the Middle East, North Africa, and sub-Sahara panel, for which bidirectional causality between these variables cannot be rejected. These empirical insights are of particular interest to policymakers as they help build sound economic policies to sustain economic development.

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Causal interactions between CO2 emissions, FDI, and economic growth: Evidence from dynamic simultaneous-equation models

2014

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“…Aside from a concentrated source of BOD, warmer waters originating from urban areas will lower the oxygen carrying capacity of urban rivers and accelerate processes of chemical degradation threatening fish survival. Comprehensive data on the impacts of urbanisation are available in the largest cities in the world and these have been the subject of overarching review (Duh et al, 2008). Yet such an approach rather than confirm the negative impacts of urbanisation reveals inconsistent trends in BOD and DO between one major city and another, highlighting confounding influences most notably that growth stimulates resilience by prompting technological improvements (e.g.…”

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An empirical investigation of climate and land-use effects on water quantity and quality in two urbanising catchments in the southern United Kingdom

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Kjeldsen

Hutchins

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Science of The Total Environment

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Using historical data of: climate, land-use, hydrology and water quality from four catchments located in the south of England, this study identifies the impact of climate and land-use change on selected water quantity and water quality indicators. The study utilises a paired catchment approach, with two catchments that have experienced a high degree of urbanisation over the past five decades and two nearby, hydrologically similar, but undeveloped catchments. Multivariate regression models were used to assess the influence of rainfall and urbanisation on runoff (annual and seasonal), dissolved oxygen levels and temperature. Results indicate: (i) no trend in annual or seasonal rainfall totals, (ii) upward trend in runoff totals in the two urban catchments but not in the rural catchments, (iii) upward trend in dissolved oxygen and temperature in the urban catchments, but not in the rural catchments, and (iv) changes in temperature and dissolved oxygen in the urban catchments are not driven by climatic variables.

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“…Rapid economic development and population growth have resulted in deterioration of worldwide water quality (Smith 2003;Ghadouani and Coggins 2011;Ahuja 2014). In particular, water quality in urban rivers or streams is under increasing stress because of fast population growth within metropolitan centers (Pekey et al 2004;Chang 2005;Singh et al 2005;Azrina et al 2006;Duha et al 2008;Spring 2011;Huang et al 2012;Furlan et al 2013). In China, rural-to-urban migration and expansion of urban centers have been under way over the last three decades, creating a number of unprecedented urban water quality issues.…”

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Impact of anthropogenic activities on urban stream water quality: a case study in Guangzhou, China

Liu

Guo

Luo

et al. 2014

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Rates of urbanisation and the resiliency of air and water quality

Cited by 193 publications

References 155 publications

Causal interactions between CO2 emissions, FDI, and economic growth: Evidence from dynamic simultaneous-equation models

Causal interactions between CO2 emissions, FDI, and economic growth: Evidence from dynamic simultaneous-equation models

An empirical investigation of climate and land-use effects on water quantity and quality in two urbanising catchments in the southern United Kingdom

Impact of anthropogenic activities on urban stream water quality: a case study in Guangzhou, China

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