The impact of economic development on environmental sustainability

The impact of economic development on environmental sustainability

The study attempts to analyze the impact of income level, population growth on sustainable development indicators of 39 Muslim countries of the world. For this purpose, a GMM (Generalised Method of Moments) method of estimation is used to observe the impact based on cross-sectional data. The results...

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Main Author: Duasa, Jarita
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: IIUM Press 2009
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HD72 Economic growth, development, planning
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spelling iium-70572011-11-22T04:13:40Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/7057/ The impact of economic development on environmental sustainability Duasa, Jarita HD72 Economic growth, development, planning The study attempts to analyze the impact of income level, population growth on sustainable development indicators of 39 Muslim countries of the world. For this purpose, a GMM (Generalised Method of Moments) method of estimation is used to observe the impact based on cross-sectional data. The results indicate that the middle/higher income countries have less problem of air quality compared to low income countries which is at the higher process of industrialization. This is consistent with hypothesized relationship of environment Kuznets curve. It is also found that less population growth and low income countries contribute to better biodiversity or less percentage of counrty's territory in threatened ecoregions. IIUM Press 2009 Book Chapter PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/7057/1/The_Impact_of_Economic_Development_on_Enviromental_Sustainability.pdf Duasa, Jarita (2009) The impact of economic development on environmental sustainability. In: Proceedings of the Seminar on Research Findings 2008. IIUM Press, Kuala Lumpur, pp. 227-235. ISBN 9789833855780 http://rms.research.iium.edu.my/bookstore/Products/115-wwwgooglecom.aspx
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Duasa, Jarita
The impact of economic development on environmental sustainability
description The study attempts to analyze the impact of income level, population growth on sustainable development indicators of 39 Muslim countries of the world. For this purpose, a GMM (Generalised Method of Moments) method of estimation is used to observe the impact based on cross-sectional data. The results indicate that the middle/higher income countries have less problem of air quality compared to low income countries which is at the higher process of industrialization. This is consistent with hypothesized relationship of environment Kuznets curve. It is also found that less population growth and low income countries contribute to better biodiversity or less percentage of counrty's territory in threatened ecoregions.
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author Duasa, Jarita
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title The impact of economic development on environmental sustainability
title_short The impact of economic development on environmental sustainability
title_full The impact of economic development on environmental sustainability
title_fullStr The impact of economic development on environmental sustainability
title_full_unstemmed The impact of economic development on environmental sustainability
title_sort impact of economic development on environmental sustainability
publisher IIUM Press
publishDate 2009
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/7057/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/7057/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/7057/1/The_Impact_of_Economic_Development_on_Enviromental_Sustainability.pdf
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