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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2020

Exploring the linkage among energy intensity, carbon emission and urbanization in Pakistan: fresh evidence from ecological modernization and environment transition theories.

Syed Ale Raza Shah, Syed Asif Ali Naqvi, Sofia Anwar

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Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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Syed Ale Raza ShahDepartment of Economics, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan.
Syed Asif Ali NaqviDepartment of Economics, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan. syedasif_1@yahoo.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6769-3775
Sofia AnwarDepartment of Economics, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan.
Government College University, Faisalabad · PK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study uses ecological modernization and environmental transition theories to estimate the interaction among energy intensity, carbon emission and urbanization for the period of 1980-2017. We have systematically examined the empirical connections among emission, urbanization, income per capita, imports, exports, energy use, trade openness and energy intensity. The Johnson co-integration and Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) causality methods are employed for the sake of analysis. Overall findings confirm the dynamic and U-shaped relationship between emission and urbanization, and carbon emission and income per capita. The empirical results of urbanization, inflation and financial development illustrate positive association with the energy intensity, whereas trade openness, labour force participation and carbon emission show a negative association with the dependent variable. Moreover, outcomes of causality analysis provide evidence of varied causality link among the variables across the models. The study provides the implications for the decision makers in Pakistan to choose new urbanization patterns that are less reliant on energy consumption.

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Economic DevelopmentUrbanizationCarbonCarbon DioxidePakistanCarbonCarbon DioxideCarbon emissionEnergy intensityEnvironmentNon-EKC-hypothesisUrbanization

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