Urban Growth or Urban Sprawl: Exploring the Interplay of Resource Migration and Knowledge Economy for Environmental Sustainability

IF 4 3区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Journal of the Knowledge Economy Pub Date : 2024-07-04 DOI:10.1007/s13132-024-02177-4

Mubasher Iqbal, Rukhsana Kalim, Noman Arshed

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Environment degradation is an alarming global issue to the standard of living emerging from higher mechanization and energy-intensive economic activity in urban areas. This study aims to test the impact of resource migration from rural to urban areas on environmental quality by utilizing panel data techniques for the world’s top ten highly populated countries from 1996 to 2020. For this purpose, our study has formulated a non-linear relationship between resource migration and environmental quality to form a variant of the environmental Phillips curve and urbanization-environment Kuznets curve (U-EKC). Further, this study has examined the knowledge economy indicators (technology, education, innovations, and institutional quality) moderating role through the U-EKC channel. The findings confirm the ∩ -shaped existence of U-EKC, indicating the presence of urban sprawl over the horizon. Moreover, other than technology, all knowledge indicators have shown a potential to moderate urban sprawl toward reducing net carbon emissions and environmental sustainability.

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城市增长还是城市蔓延？探索资源迁移与知识经济对环境可持续性的相互作用

环境退化是一个令人担忧的全球性问题，因为城市地区的机械化程度和能源密集型经济活动越来越高，生活水平也随之提高。本研究旨在利用 1996 年至 2020 年世界十大人口大国的面板数据技术，检验资源从农村向城市迁移对环境质量的影响。为此，我们的研究在资源迁移和环境质量之间建立了非线性关系，形成了环境菲利普斯曲线和城市化-环境库兹涅茨曲线（U-EKC）的变体。此外，本研究还考察了知识经济指标（技术、教育、创新和制度质量）在 U-EKC 渠道中的调节作用。研究结果证实，U-EKC 呈"∩"形，表明城市无计划扩展的存在。此外，除技术外，所有知识指标都显示出缓和城市扩张的潜力，以减少净碳排放，实现环境的可持续发展。

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Journal of the Knowledge Economy ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

5.90

自引率

27.30%

发文量

228

期刊介绍： In the context of rapid globalization and technological capacity, the world’s economies today are driven increasingly by knowledge—the expertise, skills, experience, education, understanding, awareness, perception, and other qualities required to communicate, interpret, and analyze information. New wealth is created by the application of knowledge to improve productivity—and to create new products, services, systems, and process (i.e., to innovate). The Journal of the Knowledge Economy focuses on the dynamics of the knowledge-based economy, with an emphasis on the role of knowledge creation, diffusion, and application across three economic levels: (1) the systemic ''meta'' or ''macro''-level, (2) the organizational ''meso''-level, and (3) the individual ''micro''-level. The journal incorporates insights from the fields of economics, management, law, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and political science to shed new light on the evolving role of knowledge, with a particular emphasis on how innovation can be leveraged to provide solutions to complex problems and issues, including global crises in environmental sustainability, education, and economic development. Articles emphasize empirical studies, underscoring a comparative approach, and, to a lesser extent, case studies and theoretical articles. The journal balances practice/application and theory/concepts.