Department of Economics, Abdullah Gul University, Office A210, Kayseri, Turkey.
Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2020 Apr;27(11):12717-12724. doi: 10.1007/s11356-020-07878-2. Epub 2020 Feb 1.
The purpose of this study is to examine the role of economic structure of European countries into testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis for European countries for the period 1980 to 2014. This study is inspired by the work of Lin et al. (J Clean Prod 133:712-724, 2016), which made the first effort to investigate the phenomenon looking only at African countries. The main finding of the study is that the overall economic growth is the factor with which CO emissions exhibit an inverted U-shaped relationship in the studied country group. On the contrary, when using their industrial share as a proxy to capture the countries' economic structure, the EKC hypothesis is not confirmed - but a U-shaped relationship is confirmed. The industrial share decreases emissions through the development and absorption of technologies that are energy efficient and environmental friendly. The EKC hypothesis is confirmed when the aggregate GDP growth is considered, taking into account the improvement of the overall economic conditions of the countries regardless of the economic structure and role of industrialization.
本研究旨在检验欧洲国家的经济结构在检验欧洲国家 1980 年至 2014 年期间的环境库兹涅茨曲线（EKC）假说中的作用。本研究的灵感来自 Lin 等人的工作（J Clean Prod 133:712-724, 2016），他们首次努力仅在非洲国家中研究这一现象。研究的主要发现是，总体经济增长是 CO 排放与所研究的国家组中呈倒 U 型关系的因素。相反，当使用其工业份额作为代理来捕捉各国的经济结构时，EKC 假说并未得到证实——而是证实了 U 型关系。工业份额通过开发和吸收节能和环保技术来减少排放。当考虑到各国整体经济状况的改善，而不论经济结构和工业化的作用如何时，EKC 假说在考虑到总 GDP 增长时得到了证实。
