Employing the Panel Quantile Regression Approach to Examine the Role of Natural Resources in Achieving Environmental Sustainability: Does Globalization Create Some Difference?

Sadeq Damrah (), Elma Satrovic, Mohamad Atyeh and Fekri Ali Shawtari
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Sadeq Damrah: Department of Mathematics and Physics, College of Engineering, Australian University—Kuwait, West Mishref, Safat 13015, Kuwait
Elma Satrovic: Department of International Trade and Logistics, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Hasan Kalyoncu University, Gaziantep 27010, Türkiye
Mohamad Atyeh: Strategy and Operations Department, Kaplan Business School, West Perth, WA 6005, Australia
Fekri Ali Shawtari: Management Department, Community College of Qatar, C-Ring, Doha P.O. Box 7344, Qatar

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 24, 1-19

Abstract: In the modern era of globalization, natural resources have become an important factor in shaping a sustainable future; however, the evidence on the role of globalization in reducing the adverse environmental impacts of natural resources is relatively scarce. The current study explores the dynamic interaction between energy consumption, economic development proxied through the human development index, population, natural resources, globalization, and ecological footprint under the core idea of the Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence and Technology (STIRPAT). This research applies panel data for the period from 1999 to 2018 in nine countries with the highest oil production (Brazil, Canada, China, Iran, Kuwait, Russia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and the United States). The results of this study are based on the panel Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQR). Empirical findings foundthat economic development, energy consumption, population, and natural resources contribute to increased environmental degradation, while globalization seems the main source of environmental sustainability. Concerning the indirect impacts of globalization, expanded interaction and integration among oil-producing countries helped to inhibit ecological footprint; nevertheless, natural resources complicate the design of a sustainable future by promoting environmental degradation. Additionally, a bidirectional causality relation was discovered between population, energy consumption, globalization, and ecological footprint; however, the panel Dumitrescu and Hurlin causality test results revealed a unidirectional causality association from economic development to ecological footprint and from natural resources to ecological footprint. Our findings shed new light on the criticality of globalization in achieving environmental sustainability by providing cleaner practices that will prevent rent-seeking.

Keywords: ecological footprint; globalization; natural resources; panel quantile regression; STIRPAT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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