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Título
Is Europe on the way to sustainable development? Compatibility of green environment, economic growth, and circular economy issues
Año del Documento
2023
Editorial
MDPI
Descripción
Producción Científica
Documento Fuente
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023, Vol. 20, Nº. 2, 1078
Abstract
The challenges imposed by climate change and the limited nature of resources generate paradigm shifts at the level of economic, social, and environmental policies and strategies. Promoting the principles of sustainable development and the circular economy is a priority worldwide. Thus, the motivation of this research is to explore the European countries’ path toward sustainable development by analysing the relationship between green environment, economic growth, and circular economy issues. In order to explore this relationship in the case of European countries, the analysis takes into consideration specific variables: final energy consumption, GDP, capital gross fixed capital formation, greenhouse gas emissions, SOx emissions, NOx emissions, and generation of municipal waste per capita. This study is focused on the period 2009–2020 for 31 European countries, with data being provided by Eurostat and World Bank databases. The panel data analysis was used in order to examine the relationship between a green environment, economic growth and a circular economy. The results of the study suggest that gross fixed capital formation and total greenhouse gas emissions lead to decreasing generation of municipal waste; instead, final energy consumption, GDP, SOx emissions and NOx emissions generate an increase in the generation of municipal waste. The novelty of our paper consists of associating green environment, economic growth, and circular economy in the case of European countries, the results allowing the proposal of economic policy measures to favor the green transition process considering the potential of the circular economy.
Materias (normalizadas)
Environment
Medio ambiente
Sustainable development
Desarrollo sostenible
Economic development
Desarrollo económico
Circular economy
Economía circular
Granger causality
Sustainability
Sostenibilidad
Europe
Europa
Materias Unesco
5902.08 Política del Medio Ambiente
5310 Economía Internacional
ISSN
1660-4601
Revisión por pares
SI
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Propietario de los Derechos
© 2023 The authors
Idioma
eng
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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openAccess
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