Reexamination of Environmental Kuznets Curve for Ecological Footprint: The Role of Biocapacity, Human Capital, and Trade

Majeed, Muhammad Tariq

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“…In the same light, Sulaiman and Abdul-Rahim (2018) empirically suggested that population growth only determine CO 2 emission in the short run. Equally, Majeed and Mazhar (2020) reanalyzed the EKC and concluded that evidence of the EKC is inconclusively based on methodology, country heterogeneity, and sample data.…”

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The effects of trade, foreign direct investment, and economic growth on environmental quality and overshoot: a dynamic common correlation effects approach

2021

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This study empirically investigates the effects of trade, foreign direct investment, and growth on environmental quality and sustainability. In order to attain the objective of the study, we adopt the novel dynamic common correlation effect technique that accounts for cross-sectional dependence. A panel of 109 countries from 1995 to 2016 was used for the study, based on availability of data. The results indicated that economic growth, trade openness, and FDI generally degrade the environment quality, while control variables like population and human development are environmentally friendly. Income-level disparity is equally noticed with the division of the panel into low-income, lower middle-income, and upper middle-income and highincome countries. For sustainability, only human development is seen to be exerting a positive effect on ecological overshoot. The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is equally validated for the global sample and for each income level but more significant in lower middle-income countries. The results indicate that efforts to improve the quality of the environment and sustain Mother Nature need to be encouraged. There is need to introduce abatement policies for firms, encourage renewable energy consumption, discourage investment in fossil fuel, implement the Common Agricultural policy, and adopt trade policy with legislation on minimum pollution within all countries.

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The effects of trade, foreign direct investment, and economic growth on environmental quality and overshoot: a dynamic common correlation effects approach

2021

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“…Moreover, education stimulates people to embrace environmental rules and guidelines, consequently, ecological superiority (Majeed & Mazhar 2020;Desha et al, 2015). Majeed and Mazhar (2020) collected data for developed, middle-income, and low-income nations and strongly supported the notion that human capital improves environmental quality. Similarly, Ahmed et al (2020) found a similar type of results for G-7 economies.…”

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“…For instance, an increase in human capital helps the economies to conserve energy and resources by decreasing a large amount of wastage (Zen et al, 2014). Moreover, education stimulates people to embrace environmental rules and guidelines, consequently, ecological superiority (Majeed & Mazhar 2020;Desha et al, 2015). Majeed and Mazhar (2020) collected data for developed, middle-income, and low-income nations and strongly supported the notion that human capital improves environmental quality.…”

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Digitalization And CO2 Emissions In BRICS: What Role Does Education Play In The Green Economy?

Lu¹,

Wang²,

Kim³

et al. 2021

Preprint

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This paper aims to examine the effects of digitalization and education on environment quality by using a dataset of BRICS economies from 1990 to 2018. Theories predict a positive effect of digitalization and education on environment quality but previous empirical studies on these nexus produced mixed outcomes. While our study has three core findings; mobile has a negative effect on CO2 in only Russia, while the internet has a negative effect on CO2 emissions in BRICS economies except India in long run. Thus digitalization plays a crucial role in fostering environmental quality in BRICS. Similarly, education has also improved the environmental quality in BRICS by reducing CO2. The effects of digitalization and education are significantly observed in mostly BRICS economies in short run. Regarding implications, this study recommends that the BRICS governments should improve digitalization in the economy and also repair the education system to realize significant green economic growth.

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“…A final techniques effect takes hold as increased economic development replaces obsolete technologies with cleaner ones and reduces pollution [56][57][58][59]. An alternative account for the emergence of the inverted U-shaped curve attributes superior environmental performance at higher income levels to environmental transition theory, by which better developed economies export pollution-intensive activities to less developed trade partners [60][61][62]. (b) A monotonically increasing relationship demonstrates unequivocally positive feedback between productivity and environmental impact [63] (p. 866).…”

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Fear in a Handful of Dust: The Epidemiological, Environmental, and Economic Drivers of Death by PM2.5 Pollution

Chen

Zovko²,

Šimurina

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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This study evaluates numerous epidemiological, environmental, and economic factors affecting morbidity and mortality from PM2.5 exposure in the 27 member states of the European Union. This form of air pollution inflicts considerable social and economic damage in addition to loss of life and well-being. This study creates and deploys a comprehensive data pipeline. The first step consists of conventional linear models and supervised machine learning alternatives. Those regression methods do more than predict health outcomes in the EU-27 and relate those predictions to independent variables. Linear regression and its machine learning equivalents also inform unsupervised machine learning methods such as clustering and manifold learning. Lower-dimension manifolds of this dataset’s feature space reveal the relationship among EU-27 countries and their success (or failure) in managing PM2.5 morbidity and mortality. Principal component analysis informs further interpretation of variables along economic and health-based lines. A nonlinear environmental Kuznets curve may describe the fuller relationship between economic activity and premature death from PM2.5 exposure. The European Union should bridge the historical, cultural, and economic gaps that impair these countries’ collective response to PM2.5 pollution.

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Reexamination of Environmental Kuznets Curve for Ecological Footprint: The Role of Biocapacity, Human Capital, and Trade

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The effects of trade, foreign direct investment, and economic growth on environmental quality and overshoot: a dynamic common correlation effects approach

The effects of trade, foreign direct investment, and economic growth on environmental quality and overshoot: a dynamic common correlation effects approach

Digitalization And CO2 Emissions In BRICS: What Role Does Education Play In The Green Economy?

Fear in a Handful of Dust: The Epidemiological, Environmental, and Economic Drivers of Death by PM2.5 Pollution

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