The Role of Globalization, Economic Growth and Natural Resources on the Ecological Footprint in Thailand: Evidence from Nonlinear Causal Estimations

The environmental issue has become a global problem that needs to be examined frequently, motivating researchers to investigate it. Thus, the present study has investigated the asymmetric impact of globalization, economic growth and natural resources on the ecological footprint in the presence of en...

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Published in:Processes 2021-07, Vol.9 (7), p.1103
Main Authors: Hussain, Hafezali Iqbal, Haseeb, Muhammad, Kamarudin, Fakarudin, Dacko-Pikiewicz, Zdzisława, Szczepańska-Woszczyna, Katarzyna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Climate change
Consumption
Dependent variables
Developing countries
Ecological effects
Economic development
Economic growth
Footprint analysis
Globalization
Impact analysis
Independent variables
LDCs
Natural resources
Water shortages
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Summary:The environmental issue has become a global problem that needs to be examined frequently, motivating researchers to investigate it. Thus, the present study has investigated the asymmetric impact of globalization, economic growth and natural resources on the ecological footprint in the presence of environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) in Thailand. The study has used annual time series data from 1970 to 2018. The study applied a novel method of nonlinear autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL). In particular, the current study has investigated the effect of positive and negative shocks on the independent variable on the dependent variable. The findings have confirmed that the effect of globalization and natural resources are significant and nonlinear. However, the effect of negative shocks of globalization and natural resources is more dominant on the ecological footprint in Thailand than the positive shocks of both variables. Moreover, the present study has also tested the presence of EKC in Thailand, and the findings confirm the presence of an inverted U-shape curve in the Thailand economy.
ISSN:2227-9717
2227-9717
DOI:10.3390/pr9071103