Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 50603, Malaysia,
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2014 Oct;21(19):11395-400. doi: 10.1007/s11356-014-3095-1. Epub 2014 Jun 6.
The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between air pollution, fossil fuel energy consumption, water resources, and natural resource rents in the panel of selected Asia-Pacific countries, over a period of 1975-2012. The study includes number of variables in the model for robust analysis. The results of cross-sectional analysis show that there is a significant relationship between air pollution, energy consumption, and water productivity in the individual countries of Asia-Pacific. However, the results of each country vary according to the time invariant shocks. For this purpose, the study employed the panel least square technique which includes the panel least square regression, panel fixed effect regression, and panel two-stage least square regression. In general, all the panel tests indicate that there is a significant and positive relationship between air pollution, energy consumption, and water resources in the region. The fossil fuel energy consumption has a major dominating impact on the changes in the air pollution in the region.
本研究旨在考察亚太地区选定国家在 1975-2012 年期间的空气污染、化石燃料能源消耗、水资源和自然资源租金之间的关系。该研究在模型中包含了多个变量，以进行稳健分析。横截面分析的结果表明，亚太地区个别国家的空气污染、能源消耗和水生产力之间存在显著关系。然而，根据时间不变冲击，每个国家的结果有所不同。为此，本研究采用了面板最小二乘法，其中包括面板最小二乘回归、面板固定效应回归和面板两阶段最小二乘回归。总的来说，所有的面板检验都表明，该地区的空气污染、能源消耗和水资源之间存在显著的正相关关系。化石燃料能源消耗对该地区空气污染的变化有主要的主导影响。
