Back to Search
Start Over
Dynamic linkages amongst ecological footprints, fossil fuel energy consumption and globalization: an empirical analysis
- Source :
- Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal. 31:1549-1568
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Emerald, 2020.
-
Abstract
- PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the dynamic linkages amongst ecological footprints, fossil fuel consumption, real income, globalization and population in Egypt in the period from 1971 to 2014.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) and dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) methods to investigate the long run relationships amongst ecological footprints, economic growth, globalization, fossil fuel energy consumption and population. Moreover, the Toda–Yamamoto approach is conducted to examine the causal relationships between variables.FindingsEmpirical results of FMOLS and DOLS methods show that real income and fossil fuel consumption are responsible for deteriorating the environment, while globalization and population are found to mitigate it. As for Toda–Yamamoto–Granger causal relationship results, unidirectional causal relation from globalization, population and fossil fuel energy consumption to the ecological footprint exists. Moreover, bidirectional causal relation between real income on the one hand and globalization and the ecological footprint on the other hand is found.Originality/valueUsing carbon dioxide emissions has major weakness as carbon dioxide emissions are considered only part of the total environmental deterioration so this study is the first study for Egypt that uses the ecological footprint as an indicator for environmental quality and environmental pollution and links it with globalization, economic growth, population and fossil fuel energy consumption. Moreover, realizing the direction of causality between these variables might help policymakers in designing the policies to promote the shift towards clean energy sources, especially that achieving sustainable economic growth with more contribution to the global economy depending on diversification of energy sources without deteriorating the environment is considered one of the most important objectives of Egypt’s National Vision 2030.
- Subjects :
- Real income
Consumption (economics)
education.field_of_study
Ecological footprint
Natural resource economics
020209 energy
Population
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Environmental pollution
02 engineering and technology
Energy consumption
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
01 natural sciences
Globalization
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Economics
education
Energy source
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14777835
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........93b61b328d845c415a509fa881034255