持续性
生物量(生态学)
能源消耗
消费(社会学)
自然资源经济学
环境经济学
环境科学
业务
环境资源管理
环境保护
工程类
经济
生态学
社会科学
社会学
电气工程
生物
作者
Stéphane Mbiankeu Nguea,Hervé Kaffo Fotio
出处
期刊:Energy
[Elsevier]
日期:2024-02-01
卷期号:: 130500-130500
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.energy.2024.130500
摘要
Promoting sustainable energy use is crucial to achieving environmental sustainability. However, there is limited documentation on how human development moderates the effect of energy consumption on environmental sustainability. Therefore, this study aims to uncover the impact of biomass energy consumption and human development on the ecological footprint in 31 African countries from 1996 to 2018. To achieve this, we employ Driscoll-Kraay, instrumental variables, and panel quantile regression techniques to address heteroscedasticity, endogeneity, and conditional heterogeneity. The result shows that biomass energy consumption increases ecological footprint, while human development reduces ecological footprint. The results also show that human development reduces the adverse effect of biomass energy consumption on environmental sustainability. Moreover, the pairwise Dumitrescu-Hurlin panel causality results prove the two-way causal association between biomass energy consumption and ecological footprint. The feedback effect between human development and the ecological footprint is also supported. To improve environmental sustainability, policymakers should promote sustainable biomass energy consumption through awareness and education campaigns.
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