School of Finance and Public Administration, Hubei University of Economics, Wuhan, China.
School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Jan;29(3):4116-4127. doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-16000-z. Epub 2021 Aug 17.
As an indicator of environmental degradation, the ecological footprint has seen a terrific focus in the literature. We explore the dynamics among economic growth, urbanization, and environmental sustainability in the presence of population growth and industry value-added in the thirty International Energy Agency (IEA) member countries. We apply advanced econometric modeling for empirical analysis over the period 1992 to 2016. This study's short-run results suggest that capital formation and biocapacity increase ecological footprint in the short run. The findings of long-run estimates demonstrate that industrial value-added and capital formation improve environmental sustainability. However, economic growth, urbanization, biocapacity, and population growth deteriorate environmental sustainability in the long run. Policymakers in the IEA countries are encouraged to establish policies that promote a sustained lifestyle, ecological awareness, clean technological innovations, efficient production and consumption measures, and enlarge cities to limit the adverse effects of urbanization on environmental sustainability. Finally, study limitations and future research directions are discussed.
作为环境退化的一个指标，生态足迹在文献中受到了极大的关注。我们探讨了在人口增长和工业附加值存在的情况下，经济增长、城市化和环境可持续性之间的动态关系，研究对象为 30 个国际能源机构（IEA）成员国。我们应用先进的计量经济学模型对 1992 年至 2016 年期间进行实证分析。本研究的短期结果表明，资本形成和生物容量的增加会在短期内增加生态足迹。长期估计的结果表明，工业附加值和资本形成会改善环境可持续性。然而，经济增长、城市化、生物容量和人口增长会在长期内恶化环境可持续性。鼓励 IEA 国家的政策制定者制定政策，促进可持续的生活方式、生态意识、清洁技术创新、高效的生产和消费措施，并扩大城市规模，以限制城市化对环境可持续性的不利影响。最后，讨论了研究的局限性和未来的研究方向。
