Associating Economic Growth and Ecological Footprints through Human Capital and Biocapacity in South Asia

Usman Mehmood (), Muhammad Umar Aslam and Muhammad Adil Javed
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Usman Mehmood: Remote Sensing, GIS, and Climatic Research Lab, National Center of GIS, and Space Applications, University of the Punjab, Lahore 54590, Pakistan
Muhammad Umar Aslam: Remote Sensing, GIS, and Climatic Research Lab, National Center of GIS, and Space Applications, University of the Punjab, Lahore 54590, Pakistan
Muhammad Adil Javed: Remote Sensing, GIS, and Climatic Research Lab, National Center of GIS, and Space Applications, University of the Punjab, Lahore 54590, Pakistan

World, 2023, vol. 4, issue 3, 1-14

Abstract: The ecological footprint (EF) has been used as an environmental indicator in most of the past research. Due to the complex linkages between economic growth and human development, EF has been inadequately understood in policy making. This research attempts to investigate the impacts of economic growth, human capital, biocapacity, and urbanization on the factors affecting the ecological footprint (EF) of five South Asian countries. To provide empirical evidence, this study utilizes the annual data from 1990 to 2022 for Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The findings confirm the positive contribution of GDP, human capital, biocapacity, and urbanization to EF. The causality analysis shows feedback association between GDP and EF, human capital and EF, and biocapacity and EF.

Keywords: ecological footprints; biocapacity; human development; South Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G15 G17 G18 L21 L22 L25 L26 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 R51 R52 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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