绿色增长作为生态足迹的决定因素:ICT传播,环境创新和自然资源是否重要?
Ali Hassan1, Juan Yang2, Ahmed Usman3
1Department of Media and Communication Studies, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
PloS one
|September 13, 2023
概括
绿色增长,ICT和环境创新减少了新兴经济体的生态足迹,而自然资源增加了它. 发达经济体看到所有因素的减少,突出了对可持续发展的关键政策影响.
科学领域:
- 环境经济学环境经济学
- 可持续发展 可持续发展 可持续发展
- 计量经济学 计量经济学
背景情况:
- 绿色增长和生态足迹之间的关系至关重要,但缺乏足够的研究,并产生模两可的发现.
- 现有的研究还没有充分探讨自然资源,环境创新和信息和通信技术 (ICT) 在塑造生态足迹方面的作用.
研究的目的:
- 分析绿色增长,信息和通信技术,环境创新和自然资源对新兴7个和发达7个经济体生态足迹的影响.
- 提供基于经验证据的强有力的政策建议.
主要方法:
- 横截面自行回归分布式滞后 (CS-ARDL) 方法用于估计长期和短期关系.
- 分析集中在一个由7个新兴经济体和7个发达经济体组成的小组上.
主要成果:
- 在新兴经济体中,绿色增长,ICT和环境创新被发现可以从长远来看减少生态足迹.
- 相反,从长远来看,自然资源可以提高新兴经济体的生态足迹.
- 在发达经济体中,绿色增长,信息和通信技术,自然资源和环境创新都有助于长期减少生态足迹.
结论:
- 该研究证实,绿色增长,ICT和环境创新是减轻生态足迹的有效工具,特别是在新兴经济体.
- 自然资源的影响差异需要为新兴经济体与发达经济体量身定制的政策方法.
- 调查结果强调了将这些因素纳入可持续发展的经济和环境政策的重要性.
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