Determinants of ecological footprint and PM2.5: Role of urbanization, natural resources and technological innovation
Due to rapid economic growth and development, human demand for natural resources is growing in Bangladesh, which causes climate change, loss of biodiversity, soil degradation, and environmental hazard. Few studies have been conducted to investigate the determinants of ecological footprint and air qu...
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| description | Due to rapid economic growth and development, human demand for natural resources is growing in Bangladesh, which causes climate change, loss of biodiversity, soil degradation, and environmental hazard. Few studies have been conducted to investigate the determinants of ecological footprint and air quality (PM2.5) in Bangladesh between 1990 and 2016. This paper also investigates the existence EKC hypothesis in both ecological footprint and PM2.5 case. Single structural break analysis has employed to know the break point while estimating integration of each variable. After estimating the integration, we have employed ARDL bound testing approach to co-integration to show the long run relationship among the urbanization, natural resources, population density, economic growth, ecological footprint and PM2.5. For the robustness about the long run relationship among the variables, we also employ Bayer and Hanck joint co-integration. The results from both models demonstrate that urbanization, population density and energy consumption are major determinants of ecological footprint and PM2.5. However, technological innovation and natural resources are reducing the ecological footprint and PM2.5. The both the models provide evidence of existence of EKC hypothesis in case of Bangladesh. This study also has suggested some important policy implications regarding the environmental sustainability. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5b6b37e7f48b4ac3bfb7aab605a3f3cf2022-12-22T00:36:39ZengElsevierEnvironmental Challenges2667-01002022-04-017100467Determinants of ecological footprint and PM2.5: Role of urbanization, natural resources and technological innovationMohini Gupta0Seema Saini1Malayaranjan Sahoo2Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, A-10 Sector-62 Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201309, IndiaDepartment of Economics Science, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, IndiaDepartment of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, Odisha, India; Corresponding author at: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, Odisha, India.Due to rapid economic growth and development, human demand for natural resources is growing in Bangladesh, which causes climate change, loss of biodiversity, soil degradation, and environmental hazard. Few studies have been conducted to investigate the determinants of ecological footprint and air quality (PM2.5) in Bangladesh between 1990 and 2016. This paper also investigates the existence EKC hypothesis in both ecological footprint and PM2.5 case. Single structural break analysis has employed to know the break point while estimating integration of each variable. After estimating the integration, we have employed ARDL bound testing approach to co-integration to show the long run relationship among the urbanization, natural resources, population density, economic growth, ecological footprint and PM2.5. For the robustness about the long run relationship among the variables, we also employ Bayer and Hanck joint co-integration. The results from both models demonstrate that urbanization, population density and energy consumption are major determinants of ecological footprint and PM2.5. However, technological innovation and natural resources are reducing the ecological footprint and PM2.5. The both the models provide evidence of existence of EKC hypothesis in case of Bangladesh. This study also has suggested some important policy implications regarding the environmental sustainability.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667010022000270Ecological footprintAir qualityUrbanizationTechnologyEKC hypothesis |
| spellingShingle | Mohini Gupta Seema Saini Malayaranjan Sahoo Determinants of ecological footprint and PM2.5: Role of urbanization, natural resources and technological innovation Environmental Challenges Ecological footprint Air quality Urbanization Technology EKC hypothesis |
| title | Determinants of ecological footprint and PM2.5: Role of urbanization, natural resources and technological innovation |
| title_full | Determinants of ecological footprint and PM2.5: Role of urbanization, natural resources and technological innovation |
| title_fullStr | Determinants of ecological footprint and PM2.5: Role of urbanization, natural resources and technological innovation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Determinants of ecological footprint and PM2.5: Role of urbanization, natural resources and technological innovation |
| title_short | Determinants of ecological footprint and PM2.5: Role of urbanization, natural resources and technological innovation |
| title_sort | determinants of ecological footprint and pm2 5 role of urbanization natural resources and technological innovation |
| topic | Ecological footprint Air quality Urbanization Technology EKC hypothesis |
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