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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
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SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENTS
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
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Summary: Political institutions, especially democracy, play a significant role in shaping a country's environmental footprints. This empirical study investigates the impact of democracy on the ecological footprint (EF) in Pakistan, a country where strict policies have weakened democracy and climate change has had severe consequences. By employing the Augmented ARDL (AARDL) approach and considering population density, clean energy, and economic growth, the study finds a negative association between democracy and EF in the long run. The results also support the Environment Kuznets Curve hypothesis when democracy is taken into account. Additionally, the study highlights the mitigating impact of clean energy on EF and the exacerbating effect of population density. Furthermore, the study applies a causality test based on AARDL, revealing causal relationships between most regressors and EF. Detailed policy implications are provided as well.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
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Environmental Sciences
Xiyue Yang, Nan Li, Mahmood Ahmad, Hailin Mu
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Assad Ullah, Murat Tekbas, Mesut Dogan
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Environmental Studies
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Biodiversity Conservation
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Summary: This study examines the relationship between ecological footprint, economic globalization, economic growth, and financial development in Japan using symmetric and asymmetric methods. The findings suggest that economic globalization and financial development increase the ecological footprint in Japan, while energy consumption deteriorates the environment. Higher population density decreases the footprint, and there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between income and footprint.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ghazala Aziz, Rida Waheed, Majid Ibrahim Alsaggaf
Summary: The purpose of this study was to understand the interactions between various factors in Saudi Arabia, including ecological footprint, forest resources, land resources, environmental technology, and renewable energy consumption. The study found that forest and land resources play a significant role in reducing the ecological footprint. Environmental technology and renewable energy showed insignificant effects in pre-Vision 2030 analyses but became negative and significant in positive shock analyses. These results highlight the effectiveness of Saudi Vision 2030 in addressing environmental challenges and suggest the implementation of beneficial policies.
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Environmental Studies
Huihui Chen, Mubeen Abdur Rehman, Jia Luo, Madad Ali
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Environmental Studies
Yufei Cong, Chunhong Ren
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Environmental Sciences
Sidi Mohammed Chekouri, Abderrahim Chibi, Mohamed Benbouziane
Summary: The present study utilizes ARDL and QQR methods to analyze the impact of natural resource abundance on Algeria's ecological footprint during the period 1970-2018. The findings from ARDL indicate that natural resource rents, GDP per capita, gross fixed capital formation, and urbanization increase the ecological footprint. However, the QQR methodology provides more insightful results, revealing that the impact of natural resources on ecological footprint is stronger at the middle and upper quantiles, but weaker at the lower quantiles. This implies that over-extraction of natural resources leads to environmental degradation, while lesser extraction has a lesser detrimental effect. The QQR also shows that economic growth, gross fixed capital formation, and urbanization have a positive effect on the ecological footprint in most quantiles, except for the lower quantiles of urbanization where the effect is negative, indicating that a lower degree of urbanization improves environmental quality in Algeria.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
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Environmental Sciences
Sayma Zia, Mustaghis Ur Rahman, Mohammed Hassan Noor, Muhammad Kamran Khan, Munaza Bibi, Danish Iqbal Godil, Muhammad Umer Quddoos, Muhammad Khalid Anser
Summary: China's rapid economic development is hindered by ecological threats, with natural resources and financial development positively correlated with ecological footprints. Human capital also plays a role in environmental impact, and awareness, training, and strategic planning are crucial for achieving Sustainable Development Goals 7, 8, and 13 in China.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
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Environmental Studies
Atif Jahanger, Muhammad Usman, Muntasir Murshed, Haider Mahmood, Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente
Summary: Ensuring a balance between economic and ecological well-being is crucial for governments worldwide. This study examines the influence of various factors on the ecological footprint of developing countries. The findings suggest that technological innovation can help inhibit the increase in ecological footprint, while natural resource consumption significantly contributes to its growth. Globalization reduces the ecological footprint of African and Latin American countries, and financial development decreases the ecological footprint of Asian countries.
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Environmental Sciences
Zulfiqar Ali, Yang Jianzhou, Amjad Ali, Jamal Hussain
Summary: This study examines the effects of financial inclusion, agricultural innovation, trade, and forest rent on carbon dioxide emissions, economic growth, and ecological footprint in Pakistan from 1970 to 2017 using symmetric and asymmetric cointegration approaches and linear and non-linear autoregressive distributive lag techniques. The results show no long-term cointegration among the variables in symmetric analysis, but significant effects of agricultural innovation on economic growth in the long and short term in asymmetric analysis. Positive shocks lead to increases in carbon dioxide emissions, while negative shocks lead to decreases. Short-term ecological footprint is influenced by positive shocks in agricultural innovation and forest rent.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
