How does energy intensity impact economic growth for the case of a small island country

IF 3.5 4区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Natural Resources Forum Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI:10.1111/1477-8947.12535

Fatema Janahi, Helmi Hamdi, Mehdi Mili

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Abstract

In this article, we explore the relationships between economic growth and energy intensity in Bahrain, and we analyse how energy intensity, population, and other macroeconomic variables are associated with each in the short and long run. In the empirical section we use data span from 1980 to 2019 and we perform a vector error correction model and cointegration technique to detect causality between the variables used in the model. The main findings of this article show that economic growth, population and FDI increased energy intensity in Bahrain in the short run. Therefore, an urgent need to be embedded in the sustainable energy action plan to limit the harmful effects of economic activity on the environmental quality in Bahrain and to ensure environmental sustainability.

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以小岛屿国家为例，能源强度如何影响经济增长

本文探讨了巴林经济增长与能源强度之间的关系，并分析了能源强度、人口和其他宏观经济变量在短期和长期内各自的关联性。在实证部分，我们使用了 1980 年至 2019 年的数据，并通过向量误差修正模型和协整技术来检测模型中使用的变量之间的因果关系。本文的主要研究结果表明，经济增长、人口和外国直接投资在短期内增加了巴林的能源强度。因此，迫切需要在可持续能源行动计划中纳入能源强度，以限制经济活动对巴林环境质量的有害影响，确保环境的可持续性。

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Natural Resources Forum 环境科学-环境科学

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6.10

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0.00%

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>36 weeks

期刊介绍： Natural Resources Forum, a United Nations Sustainable Development Journal, focuses on international, multidisciplinary issues related to sustainable development, with an emphasis on developing countries. The journal seeks to address gaps in current knowledge and stimulate policy discussions on the most critical issues associated with the sustainable development agenda, by promoting research that integrates the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. Contributions that inform the global policy debate through pragmatic lessons learned from experience at the local, national, and global levels are encouraged. The Journal considers articles written on all topics relevant to sustainable development. In addition, it dedicates series, issues and special sections to specific themes that are relevant to the current discussions of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). Articles must be based on original research and must be relevant to policy-making. Criteria for selection of submitted articles include: 1) Relevance and importance of the topic discussed to sustainable development in general, both in terms of policy impacts and gaps in current knowledge being addressed by the article; 2) Treatment of the topic that incorporates social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainable development, rather than focusing purely on sectoral and/or technical aspects; 3) Articles must contain original applied material drawn from concrete projects, policy implementation, or literature reviews; purely theoretical papers are not entertained.