Does structural change matter for sustainable development in newly industrialized countries? Fresh evidence from a new sustainability indicator

IF 4.7 2区环境科学与生态学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Development Pub Date : 2024-10-15 DOI:10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101094

Seyfettin Artan , Sinan Erdogan , Mürşit Recepoğlu , Sümeyra Çay Çakir , Pınar Hayaloğlu , Mehmet Ali Çakir

{"title":"Does structural change matter for sustainable development in newly industrialized countries? Fresh evidence from a new sustainability indicator","authors":"Seyfettin Artan , Sinan Erdogan , Mürşit Recepoğlu , Sümeyra Çay Çakir , Pınar Hayaloğlu , Mehmet Ali Çakir","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101094","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The economic gap between developed and developing economies has been diminishing due to the recent rapid economic growth performance of developing economies. While achieving this swift growth level, developing economies have structurally transformed their economies. However, the impact of this structural change on environmental sustainability remains unclear. Therefore, this study focuses on the impacts of structural change, energy structure, and economic growth on the load capacity factor, a comprehensive sustainability indicator, in newly industrialized countries during 2000–2020. To this end, second-generation panel data techniques, which account for cross-sectional dependence and heterogeneity, are used to provide more robust and reliable estimates. The results show that economic growth, structural change, and fossil energy utilization decrease the load capacity factor while renewable energy utilization increases it. These findings underscore the need for energy efficiency and resource-conscious policies that align with environmental sustainability while promoting economic growth, highlighting their crucial role in the future of sustainable development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 101094"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Environmental Development","FirstCategoryId":"93","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211464524001325","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

The economic gap between developed and developing economies has been diminishing due to the recent rapid economic growth performance of developing economies. While achieving this swift growth level, developing economies have structurally transformed their economies. However, the impact of this structural change on environmental sustainability remains unclear. Therefore, this study focuses on the impacts of structural change, energy structure, and economic growth on the load capacity factor, a comprehensive sustainability indicator, in newly industrialized countries during 2000–2020. To this end, second-generation panel data techniques, which account for cross-sectional dependence and heterogeneity, are used to provide more robust and reliable estimates. The results show that economic growth, structural change, and fossil energy utilization decrease the load capacity factor while renewable energy utilization increases it. These findings underscore the need for energy efficiency and resource-conscious policies that align with environmental sustainability while promoting economic growth, highlighting their crucial role in the future of sustainable development.

Abstract Image

查看原文本刊更多论文

结构变革对新兴工业化国家的可持续发展重要吗？一个新的可持续性指标提供的新证据

由于发展中经济体最近的快速经济增长表现，发达经济体和发展中经济体之间的经济差距正在缩小。在实现快速增长的同时，发展中经济体也实现了经济结构转型。然而，这种结构性变化对环境可持续性的影响仍不明确。因此，本研究重点关注 2000-2020 年间新兴工业化国家的结构变化、能源结构和经济增长对综合可持续发展指标--负荷能力系数的影响。为此，本研究采用了第二代面板数据技术，考虑了横截面依赖性和异质性，以提供更稳健可靠的估计值。结果表明，经济增长、结构变化和化石能源利用率降低了负荷能力系数，而可再生能源利用率提高了负荷能力系数。这些研究结果突出表明，在促进经济增长的同时，还需要制定符合环境可持续性的能源效率和资源意识政策，从而凸显其在未来可持续发展中的关键作用。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Environmental Development Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

CiteScore

8.40

自引率

1.90%

发文量

审稿时长

74 days

期刊介绍： Environmental Development provides a future oriented, pro-active, authoritative source of information and learning for researchers, postgraduate students, policymakers, and managers, and bridges the gap between fundamental research and the application in management and policy practices. It stimulates the exchange and coupling of traditional scientific knowledge on the environment, with the experiential knowledge among decision makers and other stakeholders and also connects natural sciences and social and behavioral sciences. Environmental Development includes and promotes scientific work from the non-western world, and also strengthens the collaboration between the developed and developing world. Further it links environmental research to broader issues of economic and social-cultural developments, and is intended to shorten the delays between research and publication, while ensuring thorough peer review. Environmental Development also creates a forum for transnational communication, discussion and global action. Environmental Development is open to a broad range of disciplines and authors. The journal welcomes, in particular, contributions from a younger generation of researchers, and papers expanding the frontiers of environmental sciences, pointing at new directions and innovative answers. All submissions to Environmental Development are reviewed using the general criteria of quality, originality, precision, importance of topic and insights, clarity of exposition, which are in keeping with the journal''s aims and scope.