...Kien Trung Tran; Mai Ngoc Tran Purpose This study investigates whether and to what extent government effectiveness moderates the relationship between urbanization and CO₂ emissions worldwide. Understanding how governance can mitigate urbanization’s environmental impacts is increasingly...

...Huthaifa Alqaralleh Purpose In the new global economy, environmental degradation is still among the crucial struggles braving policymakers. The intention of the current analysis, therefore, is to investigate the asymmetric impact of energy use, trade openness, population changes and urbanization...

...Yousuf Khan; Mohd. Azam Khan; Shadman Zafar Purpose The primary purpose is to investigate the dynamic relationships among urbanization, energy use and environmental pollution in the context of India from 1971 to 2018. The paper also examines the validity of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC...

...Chi Aloysius Ngong; Dimna Bih; Chinyere Onyejiaku; Josaphat Uchechukwu Joe Onwumere Purpose This study investigates the relationship between urbanization and carbon dioxide emission in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community from 1990 to 2019. The literature reveals...

... Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. This study, therefore, investigates the effect of electricity consumption and urbanization on CO₂ emissions in Ghana. Electricity consumption and urbanization are among the factors that can be used to reduce CO₂ emissions. Design/methodology/approach...

...Jing Sun; Jing Wang; Tao Wang; Tao Zhang Purpose Given the recent rapid economic development, the processes of industrialization and urbanization are accelerating. At the same time, the contradiction between environmental quality and economic development has become increasingly prominent...

...Kashif Munir; Ayesha Ameer Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the long-run as well as short-run effect of economic growth, trade openness, urbanization and technology on environmental degradation (sulfur dioxide (SO₂) emissions) in Asian emerging economies. Design...

...Ibrahim Dolapo Raheem; Joseph O. Ogebe Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of industrialization and urbanization on CO₂ emissions in 20 African countries for the period 1980 to 2013. Design/methodology/approach In order to correct for cross-sectional...

... Urbanization Environmental impacts Erosion USLE Soil erosion is responsible for approximately 85 percent of soil degradation and can be accelerated by the combination of more extensive agriculture and more intense rainfall events. Approximately 1.5 billion hectares (around 10 percent of the global...

... is reported, which can be used for the specific assessment of land take in order to support land-use decisions. Even in a general positive trend of forest expansion in the Alpine Regions, landscape heterogeneity is decreasing and areas sealed for urbanization are constantly growing (Kulakowski et al...

... on CO₂ emissions. Findings The empirical results show that FDIRE does not contribute to CO₂ emissions. It is also found that energy consumption, urbanization and economic development are important determinants of CO₂ emissions in emerging economies. Originality/value While...