Longhofer Wesley, Jorgenson Andrew
Emory University, United States.
Boston College, United States.
Soc Sci Res. 2017 Jul;65:17-29. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2017.02.002. Epub 2017 Feb 12.
This study advances scholarship on environment and development by examining whether nations more embedded in the pro-environmental world society are more or less likely to experience a relative decoupling between economic development and carbon emissions over time. The authors calculate a network centrality measure using national-level membership data on environmental international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs), and then employ the measure to create four subsamples of nations that are relatively more or less integrated in the environmental world society. The authors use interactions between measures of economic development and time in two-way fixed effects models to estimate the potentially changing effects of development on carbon emissions for the four subsamples of nations from 1970 to 2009. Results indicate that nations that are the most embedded in the environmental world society experienced a moderate decrease through time in the effect of development on carbon emissions, while the effect of development on emissions increased through time in the most peripheral nations.
本研究通过考察那些更深地融入亲环境世界社会的国家，随着时间推移，在经济发展与碳排放之间经历相对脱钩的可能性是更大还是更小，推进了关于环境与发展的学术研究。作者利用各国在环境国际非政府组织（INGO）的国家级成员数据计算了一种网络中心性指标，然后运用该指标创建了四个子样本，分别是相对更多或更少融入环境世界社会的国家。作者在双向固定效应模型中使用经济发展指标与时间的交互项，来估计1970年至2009年这四个国家子样本中发展对碳排放可能发生变化的影响。结果表明，那些最深地融入环境世界社会的国家，随着时间推移，发展对碳排放的影响适度下降，而在最外围的国家，发展对排放的影响则随时间增加。
