The impact of financial development and globalization on environmental quality: evidence from South Asian economies

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Climate change resulting from the higher concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is a threat to the sustainability of life on earth. To...     

The role of ICT diffusion in sustainable human development: an empirical analysis from SAARC economies

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This study intends to examine the impact of ICT diffusion, globalization, financial development, government effectiveness, and economic growth on...     

Nexus between IT capability and green intellectual capital on sustainable businesses: evidence from emerging economies

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This study aims to determine the moderating role of IT capability between green intellectual capital (GIC) and business sustainability in...     

Evaluating the environmental effects of economic openness: evidence from SAARC countries

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This study investigates the possible environmental effects of economic openness, such as economic growth, foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, and...     

The effects of research and development and financial development on CO2 emissions: evidence from selected WAME economies

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Earth is in the Anthropocene era and humankind deteriorates the global environment; thus, there is a dire need for sustainable policies at all levels....     

Energy poverty and economic development: evidence from BRICS economies

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - In the development concern, all countries are started increasing production of energy across the world. All countries have started expansion of access...     

Measuring the association of environmental,corporate, financial,and social CSR: evidence from fuzzy TOPSIS nexus in emerging economies

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The purpose of this research is to measure the combing impact of corporate social responsibility on company performance and to conduct a comparative...     

Green logistics,economic growth,and environmental quality: evidence from one belt and road initiative economies

The significance of global green logistics in improving green economic activities is a critically considered and debatable research topic in the context of economic growth and environment. This study aims to analyze the growth and environmental effects of green logistics performance for One Belt and Road Initiative (OBRI) countries over the period 2007–2019. The study used panel data two-stage least squares (2SLS) and generalized method of moments (GMM) estimators with robust inferences. The findings have revealed that green logistics performance improves the economic growth in OBRI, Europe, and MENA economies. While green logistics performance enhances the environmental pollution in OBRI, Central Asia, and MENA economies, it significantly improves the environmental quality in Europe and East and Southeast Asia regions. The control variables have also importance in economic growth and environment in policy implication in OBRI and five sub-regions of OBRI economies. Based on these findings, we can conduct some robust green logistics policies in OBRI.

     

Biomass energy consumption and sustainable development: empirical evidence from Asian economies

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Biomass energy is an important source of energy consumption. It is a renewable, abundant, and easily produced energy source. Its usage supports...     

Clean energy investment and financial development as determinants of environment and sustainable economic growth: evidence from China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Environmental sustainability has become one of the most common phrases in discussions about climate change. This study examines the impact of clean...     

Quantile relationship between globalization,financial development,economic growth,and carbon emissions: evidence from Vietnam

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Environmental quality and economic activity have a strong relationship. Carbon emissions remain one of the world’s most dangerous environmental...     

The spatial spillover and threshold effect of green finance on environmental quality: evidence from China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Green finance is a priority for alleviating environmental degradation pressures. Based on panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2009 to 2017, this...     

Effect of green marketing mix,green customer value,and attitude on green purchase intention: evidence from the USA

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The undertaken research examines the impact of green attitude, green customer value (e.g., environmental image and perceived value), and green...     

Role of green innovation,trade and energy to promote green economic growth: a case of South Asian Nations

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The objective of this study is to contribute to the existing debate of green economic growth by empirically investigating the role of cleaner energy...     

Global warming and export competitiveness of agriculture sector: evidence from heterogeneous econometric analysis of Pakistan

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The increase in average annual temperature due to greenhouse gases emission is posing threat to the agriculture sector across the globe. Pakistan is...     

Research and development intensity and its influence on renewable energy consumption: evidence from selected Asian economies

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of research and development (R&D) intensity on renewable energy consumption in...     

The dynamics effect of green technology innovation on economic growth and CO2 emission in Singapore: new evidence from bootstrap ARDL approach

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - For an economy to excel in growth, there is usually a trade-off between financial development and environment deterioration. For a country like...     

Analysis of the mechanism of the impact of internet development on green economic growth: evidence from 269 prefecture cities in China

As the digital economy develops rapidly and the network information technology advances, new development models represented by the network economy have emerged, which have a crucial impact on green economic growth. However, the relevant previous studies lacked the role of analyzing the direct and indirect effects of internet development on green economic growth at the prefecture-level city level. For this purpose, this paper aims to examine the intrinsic mechanism of the impact of internet development on green economic growth and provide empirical support for cities and regions in China to increase internet construction. Furthermore, the mixed model (EBM), which includes both radial and non-radial distance functions, is applied to calculate the green economic growth index. Fixed effect model and mediation effect model are also employed to test influence mechanisms of the internet development on green economic growth using panel data of 269 prefecture-level cities in China from 2004 to 2019. The statistical results reveal that internet development has contributed significantly to green economic growth. When the internet development level increases by 1 unit, the green economic growth level increases by an average of 5.0372 units. However, regional heterogeneity is evident between internet development and green economic growth, that is, the promoting effect of internet development on green economic growth is gradually enhanced from the eastern region to the western region. We also find that internet development guides industrial structure upgrading improves environmental quality and accelerates enterprise innovation, which indirectly contributes to green economic growth. And internet development mainly achieves green economic growth through enterprise innovation. Based on the above findings, we concluded that policymakers should not only strengthen the guiding role of social actors to promote the stable development of the internet industry, but also foster the construction of the three models of “internet+industry integration,” “internet+environmental governance,” and “internet+enterprise innovation” to promote green economic growth.

     

Regional differential decomposition and convergence of rural green development efficiency: evidence from China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - An objective understanding of the current situation and influencing factors of rural green development in China is an important prerequisite for...     

The province-managing-county reform and green innovation of enterprises: evidence from the quasi-natural experiment

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Based on the database of green patents of China’s A-share listed enterprises from 2001 to 2018, this paper identifies the impact of the...