Assessing the environmental sustainability corridor: Linking natural resources, renewable energy, human capital, and ecological footprint in BRICS.

By Solomon Nathaniel, Kursat Yalciner, F. Bekun. Resources policy, 2020

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Abstract There are studies on renewable energy, natural resources abundance, and their impact on the environment especially in BRICS countries. However, none of the studies has considered human capital in the nexus, knowing fully well that ecological distortions mainly emanates from human activities. Therefore, this study explores the linkage between natural resource, renewable energy, human capital, and ecological footprint (EF) in BRICS using a battery of advance econometric techniques. The findings from the study, across all models, affirm that economic growth and natural resource increase the EF, renewable energy decreases it, while human capital is not yet at a desirable level as to mitigate environmental deterioration. The country-specific results are in harmony in terms of the deteriorating impact of economic growth, and the abating role of renewable energy on the environment. Further findings suggest a feedback causality between human capital, urbanization, and EF. Policies that can enhance renewable energy consumption, human capital development, natural resource sustainability, and curb urban anomaly are discussed.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering, Pollution

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Mohammad Haseeb
2. Md. Shabbir Alam
3. Muntasir Murshed
4. M. H. Chadni
5. Jannatul Ferdaus

In Environmental Engineering

1. Mohammad Haseeb
2. Muntasir Murshed

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1. Mohammad Haseeb
2. Muntasir Murshed
3. M. H. Chadni
4. Jannatul Ferdaus

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