Water, essential for all life, is abundantly present in nature and crucial for the environmental health of communities. Pakistan, ranking ninth among countries with limited access to clean water, has 21 million people out of 207 million facing this challenge. The study focuses on analyzing...

Climate change and environmental degradation constitute challenging and demanding issues that need mitigation and adaptation strategies and plans, as well as scientific research to test the causality between economic growth and pollution levels. From this viewpoint, the present theoretical...

This study measured the environmental and energy efficiency of 47 regions in Japan for the period 2005–2017, which was before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) in March 2011, using the slacks-based measure data envelopment analysis model. Our model had comprehensive inputs and...

Differing attitudes towards environmental issues between men and women as policymakers may affect policies and actions. Accordingly, this research analyses the issue of the causal relationship between women politicians and the level of air pollution. The analysis tests for this in Italy,...

China’s rapid industrialization and urbanization in recent decades have deteriorated its air environmental quality. This study focuses on air pollutions in terms of CO, NO2, O3, PM2.5, PM10, and SO2 in Chinese provinces. Although the heterogeneity of environmental Kuznets curves (EKCs) from...

This paper investigates the Chinese secondary industry, revealing two significant findings through the integration of neoclassical economic theory and contemporary quasi-experimental methods. Firstly, it reveals that stringent environmental regulations can result in substantial economic losses,...

The premise of industrial symbiosis (IS) is that advancing a circular economy that reuses byproducts as inputs in production is valuable for the environment. We challenge this premise in a simple model. Ceteris paribus, IS is an environmentally friendly approach; however, implementing IS may...

In this study, a panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model with system generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation is utilized to examine the dynamic causalities among economic growth, healthcare expenditure, and CO2 emissions in Asia-Pacific countries from 2000 to 2019. Results show that...

China has been the world’s second largest carbon emitter for years. Recent studies show that China had overtaken the U.S. as the world’s largest emitter in 2007. This has put China on the spotlight, just at a time when the world community starts negotiating a post-Kyoto climate regime under...