Impact of urbanization and economic growth on environmental quality in western africa: Do manufacturing activities and renewable energy matter?
The countries in Western Africa have the greatest potential for renewable energy generation in the world and are likely to be vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. Unfortunately, only a few of them have tapped into this potential, as non-renewable energy still dominates the total ener...
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| author | Hassan Radoine Salwa Bajja Jerome Chenal Zahoor Ahmed Zahoor Ahmed |
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| description | The countries in Western Africa have the greatest potential for renewable energy generation in the world and are likely to be vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. Unfortunately, only a few of them have tapped into this potential, as non-renewable energy still dominates the total energy mix of these countries. The present study explores the effect of economic growth, manufacturing value-added, urbanization, financial development, foreign direct investment, and renewable energy consumption on the environmental quality in West African countries by using a sample of some selected countries over the period 1991–2018. This study is analyzed by adopting the method of Driscoll-Kraay (DK) panel regression. The panel result suggests that manufacturing value-added, urbanization, financial development, and foreign direct investment increase environmental degradation. In addition, the findings of this study reveal that economic growth and renewable energy consumption contribute, significantly, to environmental quality. Bidirectional causality exists between economic growth and CO2 emissions and between urbanization and environmental degradation. Accordingly, in order to improve environmental quality in these countries, it is imperative to embrace and promote the consumption of clean energy sources, which will contribute more to the promotion and adoption of renewables in this strategic region. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b13248b3361943d88ef7d18b529e316f2022-12-22T04:26:10ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Environmental Science2296-665X2022-09-011010.3389/fenvs.2022.10120071012007Impact of urbanization and economic growth on environmental quality in western africa: Do manufacturing activities and renewable energy matter?Hassan Radoine0Salwa Bajja1Jerome Chenal2Zahoor Ahmed3Zahoor Ahmed4Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, UM6P, School of Architecture Planning and Design SAP+D, Ben Guerir, MoroccoMohammed VI Polytechnic University, UM6P, School of Architecture Planning and Design SAP+D, Ben Guerir, MoroccoEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, Lausanne, SuisseDepartment of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Cyprus International University, Nicosia, TurkeyDepartment of Business Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, ILMA University, Karachi, PakistanThe countries in Western Africa have the greatest potential for renewable energy generation in the world and are likely to be vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. Unfortunately, only a few of them have tapped into this potential, as non-renewable energy still dominates the total energy mix of these countries. The present study explores the effect of economic growth, manufacturing value-added, urbanization, financial development, foreign direct investment, and renewable energy consumption on the environmental quality in West African countries by using a sample of some selected countries over the period 1991–2018. This study is analyzed by adopting the method of Driscoll-Kraay (DK) panel regression. The panel result suggests that manufacturing value-added, urbanization, financial development, and foreign direct investment increase environmental degradation. In addition, the findings of this study reveal that economic growth and renewable energy consumption contribute, significantly, to environmental quality. Bidirectional causality exists between economic growth and CO2 emissions and between urbanization and environmental degradation. Accordingly, in order to improve environmental quality in these countries, it is imperative to embrace and promote the consumption of clean energy sources, which will contribute more to the promotion and adoption of renewables in this strategic region.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1012007/fullurbanisationrenewable energywest africamanufacturing value addedCO2 emissionfinancial development |
| spellingShingle | Hassan Radoine Salwa Bajja Jerome Chenal Zahoor Ahmed Zahoor Ahmed Impact of urbanization and economic growth on environmental quality in western africa: Do manufacturing activities and renewable energy matter? Frontiers in Environmental Science urbanisation renewable energy west africa manufacturing value added CO2 emission financial development |
| title | Impact of urbanization and economic growth on environmental quality in western africa: Do manufacturing activities and renewable energy matter? |
| title_full | Impact of urbanization and economic growth on environmental quality in western africa: Do manufacturing activities and renewable energy matter? |
| title_fullStr | Impact of urbanization and economic growth on environmental quality in western africa: Do manufacturing activities and renewable energy matter? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of urbanization and economic growth on environmental quality in western africa: Do manufacturing activities and renewable energy matter? |
| title_short | Impact of urbanization and economic growth on environmental quality in western africa: Do manufacturing activities and renewable energy matter? |
| title_sort | impact of urbanization and economic growth on environmental quality in western africa do manufacturing activities and renewable energy matter |
| topic | urbanisation renewable energy west africa manufacturing value added CO2 emission financial development |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1012007/full |
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