The Impact of Urbanization on CO2 Emissions: Evidence from Developing Countries

By Inmaculada MartÃnez-Zarzoso. Social Science Research Network, 2008

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This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries, taking into account the presence of heterogeneity in the sample of countries and testing for the stability of the estimated elasticities over time. The sample covers the period from 1975 through 2003 for different groups of countries, classified according to their income levels. Our results show that, whereas the impact of population growth on emissions is above unity and only slightly different for upper, middle, and low- income countries, urbanization, demonstrate a very different impact on emissions for low and lower-middle-income countries and upper-middle income countries.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Environmental regulations an option: Asymmetry effect of environmental regulations on carbon emissions using non-linear ARDL (2018, background): “(Martínez-Zarzoso and Maruotti 2011) reported that urbanization does cause carbon emissions to rise, but with different magnitude and signs in case of upper, middle and lower-income countries, as urbanization is negatively related to CO2 emission in case of high and upper-middle-income countries…”
The impact of urbanization on carbon emissions in developing countries: a Chinese study based on the U-Kaya method (2016, background): “In developing countries, urbanization has led to significant economic differences between urban and rural areas (Martínez-Zarzoso and Maruotti, 2011).”
Exploring the relationship between urbanization and the eco-environment-A case study of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region (2014, background): “…et al., 2011a,b), urban suitability assessment (Fischer nd Sun, 2001; Pijanowski et al., 2002; Wang et al., 2013a,b), energy se and CO2 emissions (Martinez-Zarzoso and Maruotti, 2011), nd water resources (Graniel et al., 1999; Varis and Frabouletussila, 2002; Ren et al., 2003; Bao and Fang,…”
The effect of urbanization on CO2 emissions in emerging economies (2014, neutral): “First, the relationship between urbanization and carbon dioxide emissions has been studied by a number of authors (eg. Cole and Neumayer, 2004; Hossain, 2011; Liddle and Lung, 2010; Martinez-Zarzoso and Maruotti, 2011; Parikh and Shukla, 1995; Poumanyvong and Kaneko, 2010; Sharma, 2011; York et al.,”
Economic Complexity and Environmental Performance: Evidence from a World Sample (2019, background): “The interest on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) has recently been revived [3, 5, 27, 31, 33, 47, 77, 91] and its hypothesis has been used to revisit the implications of structural transformations on the nexus between economic development and environmental performance [89].”
Structural transformation of manufacturing, natural resource dependence, and carbon emissions reduction: Evidence of a threshold effect from China (2019, background): “Therefore, Poumanyvong and Kaneko (2010) and Zhang and Lin (2012) use the GDP share of industry and service as proxy variables for technology T. Martínez-Zarzoso et al. (2007) and Martínez-Zarzoso and Maruotti (2011) use the GDP share of industry and energy intensity.”