Economic Activities and Management Issues for the Environment: An Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) and STIRPAT Analysis in Turkey

Mortaza Ojaghlou, Erginbay Ugurlu, Marta Kadłubek () and Eleftherios Thalassinos
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Mortaza Ojaghlou: Department of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, Istanbul Aydin University, 34295 Istanbul, Turkey
Erginbay Ugurlu: Department of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, Istanbul Aydin University, 34295 Istanbul, Turkey
Marta Kadłubek: Department of Logistics, Faculty of Management, Czestochowa University of Technology, 42-200 Czestochowa, Poland
Eleftherios Thalassinos: Faculty of Maritime and Industrial Studies, University of Piraeus, 185-33 Piraeus, Greece

Resources, 2023, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-14

Abstract: The emission of air pollutants from energy production and consumption is a major cause of environmental problems. In addition, urbanisation and CO 2 emissions have become major environmental concerns that are closely related to climate change and sustainable economic growth. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the long-run relationship among CO 2 emissions, energy consumption, economic activities, and management issues for Turkey for the period between 1980 and 2021. The STIRPAT hypothesis and the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis were employed by using dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) and ARDL bound methodologies for these goals. The findings indicate that there is a long-run relationship between variables of the STIRPAT model. The coefficient of economic expansion and energy consumption affected CO 2 emissions positively, which means that energy consumption and the expansion of economic activity have significant effects on environmental degradation. Those results are also confirmed by the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) model. In addition, the N-shaped environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) is developed for Turkey. The DCC model also shows that economic growth increases CO 2 emissions significantly, and energy productivity can be considered for decreasing CO 2 emissions.

Keywords: CO 2 emissions; energy; economics; management; environmental Kuznets curve; STIRPAT; ImPACT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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