Financial development, environmental quality, trade and economic growth: What causes what in MENA countries

A Omri, S Daly, C Rault, A Chaibi - Energy economics, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO 2 emissions, trade
and economic growth using simultaneous-equation panel data models for a panel of 12 …

Does globalization impede environmental quality in India?

M Shahbaz, H Mallick, MK Mahalik, N Loganathan - Ecological Indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
Using annual data for the period 1970–2012, the study explores the relationship between
globalization and CO 2 emissions by incorporating energy consumption, financial …

Tourism and solid waste generation in Europe: A panel data assessment of the Environmental Kuznets Curve

I Arbulú, J Lozano, J Rey-Maquieira - Waste management, 2015 - Elsevier
The relationship between tourism growth and municipal solid waste (MSW) generation has
been, until now, the subject of little research. This is puzzling since the tourism sector is an …

Democracy, financial openness, and global carbon dioxide emissions: heterogeneity across existing emission levels

WH You, HM Zhu, K Yu, C Peng - World Development, 2015 - Elsevier
The determinants of CO 2 emissions have attracted many researchers over the past few
decades. Most of studies, however, ignore the possibility that effect of independent variables …

Decomposing the trade-environment nexus for Malaysia: what do the technique, scale, composition, and comparative advantage effect indicate?

CH Ling, K Ahmed, R Binti Muhamad… - … Science and Pollution …, 2015 - Springer
This paper investigates the impact of trade openness on CO 2 emissions using time series
data over the period of 1970QI-2011QIV for Malaysia. We disintegrate the trade effect into …

[HTML][HTML] The world trade network and the environment

C Aller, L Ductor, MJ Herrerias - Energy Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper analyses the role of the world trade network on the environment. We rely on
methods developed for social network analysis to identify the most important countries in …

The role of Latin America's land and water resources for global food security: environmental trade-offs of future food production pathways

I Flachsbarth, B Willaarts, H Xie, G Pitois, ND Mueller… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
One of humanity's major challenges of the 21st century will be meeting future food demands
on an increasingly resource constrained-planet. Global food production will have to rise by …

New evidence on trade-environment linkage via air visibility

Z Li, N Xu, J Yuan - Economics Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
We revisit the effect of trade openness on environmental quality by utilizing data on the air
visibility of 134 countries during 1961–2004. We find a significantly negative impact of trade …

Peeling the onion: Analyzing aggregate, national and sectoral energy intensity in the European Union

A Löschel, F Pothen, M Schymura - Energy Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
One of the most promising ways of meeting climate policy targets is improving energy
efficiency, ie, reducing the amount of scarce and polluting resources needed to produce a …

Spatial–temporal variations of embodied carbon emission in global trade flows: 41 economies and 35 sectors

J Tian, H Liao, C Wang - Natural hazards, 2015 - Springer
The spatial–temporal variations of embodied carbon emissions in international trade at
global scope are still unclear. This paper studies the variations of outflows and inflows of …