TY - JOUR
T1 - Economic development and multiple air pollutant emissions from the industrial sector
AU - Fujii, Hidemichi
AU - Managi, Shunsuke
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research [26000001B]; the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan; and Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up [26881006B], MEXT, Japan. The results and conclusions of this article do not necessary represent the views of the funding agencies.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - This study analyzed the relationship between economic growth and emissions of eight environmental air pollutants (carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), nitrogen oxide (NOx), sulfur oxide (SOx), carbon monoxide (CO), non-methane volatile organic compound (NMVOC), and ammonia (NH3)) in 39 countries from 1995 to 2009. We tested an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis for 16 individual industry sectors and for the total industrial sector. The results clarified that at least ten individual industries do not have an EKC relationship in eight air pollutants even though this relationship was observed in the country and total industrial sector level data. We found that the key industries that dictated the EKC relationship in the country and the total industrial sector existed in CO2, N2O, CO, and NMVOC emissions. Finally, the EKC turning point and the relationship between economic development and trends of air pollutant emissions differ among industries according to the pollution substances. These results suggest inducing new environmental policy design such as the sectoral crediting mechanism, which focuses on the industrial characteristics of emissions.
AB - This study analyzed the relationship between economic growth and emissions of eight environmental air pollutants (carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), nitrogen oxide (NOx), sulfur oxide (SOx), carbon monoxide (CO), non-methane volatile organic compound (NMVOC), and ammonia (NH3)) in 39 countries from 1995 to 2009. We tested an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis for 16 individual industry sectors and for the total industrial sector. The results clarified that at least ten individual industries do not have an EKC relationship in eight air pollutants even though this relationship was observed in the country and total industrial sector level data. We found that the key industries that dictated the EKC relationship in the country and the total industrial sector existed in CO2, N2O, CO, and NMVOC emissions. Finally, the EKC turning point and the relationship between economic development and trends of air pollutant emissions differ among industries according to the pollution substances. These results suggest inducing new environmental policy design such as the sectoral crediting mechanism, which focuses on the industrial characteristics of emissions.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11356-015-5523-2
DO - 10.1007/s11356-015-5523-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 26452654
AN - SCOPUS:84955677336
SN - 0944-1344
VL - 23
SP - 2802
EP - 2812
JO - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
JF - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
IS - 3
ER -
