Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Public Finance, Sakarya University, Esentepe Campus, Serdivan, Sakarya, Turkey.
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Statistics, Sakarya University, Esentepe Campus, Serdivan, Sakarya, Turkey.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2020 Aug;27(22):27904-27913. doi: 10.1007/s11356-020-09110-7. Epub 2020 May 13.
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between ecological footprint, economic growth, renewable energy consumption, and innovation within the framework of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis for the top 10 innovative economies, namely, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Israel, Korea, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA, in the period of 1990-2015. For this purpose, the long-term relationship between variables was examined with a panel cointegration test. The results show that the variables in the EKC model move together in the long run. According to the long-run estimation results, the EKC hypothesis is valid for Israel, but not for the other countries. The study also makes the following observations: (i) For Korea, the USA, Finland, and the whole panel, innovation appears to reduce environmental pollution. (ii) Renewable energy consumption reduces environmental pollution for Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, and the USA. (iii) Globalization has an impact on the reduction of environmental pollution for Germany and Switzerland. As a result, developing policies on the use of more innovative technologies in the countries studied will have a positive impact on environmental pollution. Graphical abstract.
本研究旨在检验生态足迹、经济增长、可再生能源消费与创新之间的关系，其研究框架为环境库兹涅茨曲线（EKC）假说，研究对象为丹麦、芬兰、德国、以色列、韩国、荷兰、瑞典、瑞士、英国和美国这 10 个创新型经济体，研究时间跨度为 1990 年至 2015 年。为此，我们采用面板协整检验来检验变量之间的长期关系。结果表明，EKC 模型中的变量在长期内是协同变化的。根据长期估计结果，EKC 假说对以色列成立，但对其他国家不成立。本研究还观察到以下几点：（i）对韩国、美国、芬兰和整个面板而言，创新似乎减少了环境污染。（ii）对丹麦、德国、荷兰和美国而言，可再生能源消费减少了环境污染。（iii）全球化对德国和瑞士减少环境污染有影响。因此，在研究的国家中制定更多创新技术使用政策将对环境污染产生积极影响。图摘要。
