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Analysis of the drivers of CO(2) emissions and ecological footprint growth in Australia
This paper investigates the determinants of environmental degradation in Australia from 1990 to 2017, using ecological footprint analysis and the well-established logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition method. Additionally, decoupling factor analysis was performed to examine the link be...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8697842/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34961811 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12053-021-10014-9 |
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description | This paper investigates the determinants of environmental degradation in Australia from 1990 to 2017, using ecological footprint analysis and the well-established logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition method. Additionally, decoupling factor analysis was performed to examine the link between environment related variables (CO(2) emissions and ecological footprint) and their determinants such as real income and population. The decomposition analysis considered the impact of five different factors on CO(2) emissions: income effect, population, energy intensity, energy structure, and carbon intensity. For decoupling factor analysis, the link between ecological footprint and its two determinants, real income and population, was examined. Furthermore, the possible decoupling between CO(2) emissions and these determinants was also analyzed, because CO(2) emissions are the main cause of the country’s increasing ecological footprint. The present study has a more comprehensive approach because it analyzes the factors affecting environmental degradation in Australia by assigning two proxies (CO(2) emissions and ecological footprint) as dependent variables. The results confirmed that Australia’s ecological reserve substantially declined over the past three decades due to deforestation and energy industries. The LMDI results demonstrated that income effect, population, and carbon intensity were the main factors that raised Australia’s CO(2) emissions, whereas the energy intensity factor substantially curbed them. The reducing impact of energy structure on CO(2) emissions was minimal; thus, Australia was not able to prevent an upward trend in CO(2) emissions. Lastly, an analysis of Australia’s CO(2) emissions according to economic activities was conducted for the period between 1990 and 2017 in order to understand other factors that may have affected environmental sustainability. |
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spelling | pubmed-86978422021-12-23 Analysis of the drivers of CO(2) emissions and ecological footprint growth in Australia Rüstemoğlu, Hasan Energy Effic Original Article This paper investigates the determinants of environmental degradation in Australia from 1990 to 2017, using ecological footprint analysis and the well-established logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition method. Additionally, decoupling factor analysis was performed to examine the link between environment related variables (CO(2) emissions and ecological footprint) and their determinants such as real income and population. The decomposition analysis considered the impact of five different factors on CO(2) emissions: income effect, population, energy intensity, energy structure, and carbon intensity. For decoupling factor analysis, the link between ecological footprint and its two determinants, real income and population, was examined. Furthermore, the possible decoupling between CO(2) emissions and these determinants was also analyzed, because CO(2) emissions are the main cause of the country’s increasing ecological footprint. The present study has a more comprehensive approach because it analyzes the factors affecting environmental degradation in Australia by assigning two proxies (CO(2) emissions and ecological footprint) as dependent variables. The results confirmed that Australia’s ecological reserve substantially declined over the past three decades due to deforestation and energy industries. The LMDI results demonstrated that income effect, population, and carbon intensity were the main factors that raised Australia’s CO(2) emissions, whereas the energy intensity factor substantially curbed them. The reducing impact of energy structure on CO(2) emissions was minimal; thus, Australia was not able to prevent an upward trend in CO(2) emissions. Lastly, an analysis of Australia’s CO(2) emissions according to economic activities was conducted for the period between 1990 and 2017 in order to understand other factors that may have affected environmental sustainability. Springer Netherlands 2021-12-23 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8697842/ /pubmed/34961811 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12053-021-10014-9 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Rüstemoğlu, Hasan Analysis of the drivers of CO(2) emissions and ecological footprint growth in Australia |
title | Analysis of the drivers of CO(2) emissions and ecological footprint growth in Australia |
title_full | Analysis of the drivers of CO(2) emissions and ecological footprint growth in Australia |
title_fullStr | Analysis of the drivers of CO(2) emissions and ecological footprint growth in Australia |
title_full_unstemmed | Analysis of the drivers of CO(2) emissions and ecological footprint growth in Australia |
title_short | Analysis of the drivers of CO(2) emissions and ecological footprint growth in Australia |
title_sort | analysis of the drivers of co(2) emissions and ecological footprint growth in australia |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8697842/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34961811 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12053-021-10014-9 |
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