Pollution, knowledge and coping strategy and life expectancy in oil producing communities

IF 1.9 Q2 ECONOMICS

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI:10.1108/ijse-11-2022-0734

Stanley Emife Nwani

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Abstract

Purpose

This study aims to examine the relationship between pollution and life expectancy in oil producing communities, where there is a dearth of empirical evidence on how knowledge and coping strategy, agriculture and foreign capital inflows mediate the relationship between pollution and life expectancy.

Design/methodology/approach

The study employed a cross sectional survey design to analyze the roles of knowledge and coping strategy, agriculture and foreign capital inflows in the relationship between pollution and life expectancy in Benekuku and Okpai oil producing communities in the Niger Delta. The study employed the modern structural equation modeling (SEM) estimator.

Findings

Estimates show the mediating effect of agriculture on air pollution-longevity (coeff. = 0.398; t-value = 4.425; p < 0.05) and (coeff. = −0.120; t-value = −3.862; p < 0.05) mediating effect of foreign capital. The result revealed that agriculture and foreign capital inflows are significant mediators in pollution-life expectancy relations, affirming the Niger Delta as a pollution haven. However, knowledge and coping strategy with estimate of (coeff. = 0.233; t-value = 6.150; p < 0.05) spurs life expectancy.

Practical implications

The study suggests knowledge of hazard identification and reporting and awareness of coping strategy as the panacea to poor life expectancy rate in these local oil producing communities.

Originality/value

The study departs from existing works by estimating the mediating roles of agriculture and foreign capital inflow in air pollution-Life expectancy by controlling for knowledge and coping strategy using the structural equation model with ethical approval from Health Ethics Research Committee.

Peer review

The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-11-2022-0734

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石油生产社区的污染、知识和应对策略以及预期寿命

本研究旨在研究石油生产社区污染与预期寿命之间的关系，在那里缺乏关于知识和应对策略、农业和外国资本流入如何调解污染与预期寿命之间关系的经验证据。设计/方法/方法本研究采用横断面调查设计来分析知识和应对策略、农业和外国资本流入在尼日尔三角洲贝内库库和奥帕伊产油社区的污染与预期寿命之间的关系中的作用。本研究采用现代结构方程模型(SEM)估计器。研究结果估计显示农业对空气污染的中介作用-寿命(系数)。= 0.398;t值= 4.425;p & lt;0.05)和(0.05)。=−0.120;t-value =−3.862;p & lt;0.05)外资的中介作用。结果显示，农业和外国资本流入是污染与预期寿命关系的重要中介，肯定了尼日尔三角洲作为污染避风港的地位。然而，知识和应对策略的估计(coeff)。= 0.233;t值= 6.150;p & lt;0.05)刺激预期寿命。实际意义研究表明，对危险识别和报告的了解以及应对策略的认识是解决这些地方产油社区预期寿命低的灵丹妙药。原创性/价值本研究在现有研究的基础上，采用结构方程模型，通过控制知识和应对策略，估计农业和外资流入对空气污染-预期寿命的中介作用，并获得卫生伦理研究委员会的伦理批准。同行评议本文的同行评议历史可在:https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-11-2022-0734

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5.30%

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Social Economics publishes original and peer-reviewed theoretical and empirical research in the field of social economics. Its focus is on the examination and analysis of the interaction between economic activity, individuals and communities. Social economics focuses on the relationship between social action and economies, and examines how social and ethical norms influence the behaviour of economic agents. It is inescapably normative and focuses on needs, rather than wants or preferences, and considers the wellbeing of individuals in communities: it accepts the possibility of a common good rather than conceiving of communities as merely aggregates of individual preferences and the problems of economics as coordinating those preferences. Therefore, contributions are invited which analyse and discuss well-being, welfare, the nature of the good society, governance and social policy, social and economic justice, social and individual economic motivation, and the associated normative and ethical implications of these as they express themselves in, for example, issues concerning the environment, labour and work, education, the role of families and women, inequality and poverty, health and human development.