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Do natural resources affect environmental quality in MINT Economies? The role of tourism and financial development

With the growing nature of the ecological footprint, research studies focus on exploring new determinants of environmental degradation. Moreover, the role of natural resources and energy consumption in environmental quality has gained much attention in the literature. However, tourism raises the dem...

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Published in:Environmental science and pollution research international 2023-10, Vol.30 (47), p.103958-103971
Main Authors: FAISAL, Faisal, Rahman, Sami Ur, Ali, Adnan, Sulimany, Hamid Ghazi H, Bazhair, Ayman Hassan, Pervaiz, Ruqiya
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Language:English
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Summary:With the growing nature of the ecological footprint, research studies focus on exploring new determinants of environmental degradation. Moreover, the role of natural resources and energy consumption in environmental quality has gained much attention in the literature. However, tourism raises the demand for energy consumption and extraction of natural resources. This research study investigates the influence of natural resources, tourism, and renewable energy in MINT countries, using novel Cross-Sectional Auto Regressive Distributive Lag (CS-ARDL) methodological techniques and employing yearly data from 1995 to 2018. The study also applied recently developed Kónya (Econ Model 23:978–992, 2006 ) causality to identify the causal relationship between the variables of the heterogenous panel. The result shows that tourism, natural resources, and economic growth are positively associated with the ecological footprint in the long-run. However, renewable energy consumption negatively impacts ecological footprint in both in short-run and the long-run. Further, the study explored a bidirectional causality between economic growth and ecological footprint in MINT countries. Finally, based on the empirical results, the study recommends that the authorities in MINT countries revisit their tourism, natural resources, and economic activities policies to enhance the environmental quality and reduce the ecological footprint.
ISSN:1614-7499
0944-1344
1614-7499
DOI:10.1007/s11356-023-29520-7