Dynamic environmental quality effect of nuclear energy intensity, structural changes, and natural resources in Pakistan: testing load capacity factor hypothesis evidence

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10668-024-04806-z" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10668-024-04806-z</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-04806-z" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10668-024-04806-z</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Dynamic environmental quality effect of nuclear energy intensity, structural changes, and natural resources in Pakistan: testing load capacity factor hypothesis evidence

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

With both electricity and clean energy cooking accessible to 40 million and over 100 million people respectively, Pakistan's ecological challenges could persist as long as the energy-related issues remained unsolved. This is the motivation for examining the drivers of the country's biocapacity and ecological footprint vis-a-vis load capacity factor (LCF) from the perspective of nuclear energy intensity, natural resources, structural change, and economic growth. By using the recently developed simulation of autoregressive distributed lag for dataset that covers 1971 to 2021, this investigation found that nuclear energy intensification and structural change both improves environmental quality by increasing the country's ratio of biocapacity against its ecological footprint in the long run. Specifically, nuclear energy intensity and structural change have respective elasticities of 0.02 and 0.34 with LCF. With the country's nuclear energy supply far below the natural gas, oil, and biofuels and waste sources, the country might as well be encouraged to increase the development of nuclear energy in tackling the persistent environmental woes. Contrarily, the investigation established that natural resources in the country is detrimental to environmental quality but only in the short run because a percent increase in natural resources is responsible for similar to 0.035 percent decline in LCF. Importantly, an inverted U-shaped relationship ensued between economic growth and LCF but only statistically significant in the long-run i.e. invalidating LCF hypothesis, thus suggesting an undesirable environmental consequence of economic prosperity. As a policy, and given the novel perspectives of nuclear energy intensity and structural change dynamics, these results incentivize Pakistan's nuclear energy development drive and among among other environmental and economic policy initiatives.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Dynamic environmental quality effect of nuclear energy intensity, structural changes, and natural resources in Pakistan: testing load capacity factor hypothesis evidence

Popis výsledku anglicky

With both electricity and clean energy cooking accessible to 40 million and over 100 million people respectively, Pakistan's ecological challenges could persist as long as the energy-related issues remained unsolved. This is the motivation for examining the drivers of the country's biocapacity and ecological footprint vis-a-vis load capacity factor (LCF) from the perspective of nuclear energy intensity, natural resources, structural change, and economic growth. By using the recently developed simulation of autoregressive distributed lag for dataset that covers 1971 to 2021, this investigation found that nuclear energy intensification and structural change both improves environmental quality by increasing the country's ratio of biocapacity against its ecological footprint in the long run. Specifically, nuclear energy intensity and structural change have respective elasticities of 0.02 and 0.34 with LCF. With the country's nuclear energy supply far below the natural gas, oil, and biofuels and waste sources, the country might as well be encouraged to increase the development of nuclear energy in tackling the persistent environmental woes. Contrarily, the investigation established that natural resources in the country is detrimental to environmental quality but only in the short run because a percent increase in natural resources is responsible for similar to 0.035 percent decline in LCF. Importantly, an inverted U-shaped relationship ensued between economic growth and LCF but only statistically significant in the long-run i.e. invalidating LCF hypothesis, thus suggesting an undesirable environmental consequence of economic prosperity. As a policy, and given the novel perspectives of nuclear energy intensity and structural change dynamics, these results incentivize Pakistan's nuclear energy development drive and among among other environmental and economic policy initiatives.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50200 - Economics and Business

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Environment, Development and Sustainability

ISSN

1387-585X

e-ISSN

1573-2975

Svazek periodika

27

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

11

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

26783-26800

Kód UT WoS článku

001208963500002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85191387386