South Asia is highly vulnerable to climate change, yet the determinants of carbon emissions remain underexplored. This study estimates the short- and long-run effects of economic complexity, globalization, and renewable energy consumption on carbon emissions across Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka from 1996 to 2020 and the moderating role of economic complexity in this relationship. By employing the cross-sectional autoregressive distributed lag (CS-ARDL) estimation technique, this study addresses cross-sectional dependence, structural breaks, and cointegration among the variables. The findings of this study highlight that economic complexity and renewable energy consumption reduce carbon emissions, whereas globalization increases them. Notably, economic complexity significantly strengthens the adverse effects of globalization on carbon emissions rather than mitigating them, whereas its interaction with renewable energy consumption remains insignificant in enhancing the emission-reduction effects of renewable energy. The robust results also highlight that the interaction between economic complexity and primary energy consumption positively affects carbon emissions. This study contributes to the literature by evaluating the conditioning role of economic complexity in the carbon emissions effects of globalization and renewable energy and providing evidence that supports new insights into the pollution haven hypothesis. This study concludes that a well-designed policy framework is required to integrate renewable energy and advanced technologies into the increasing complex production structure while ensuring that globalization-led growth does not intensify carbon emissions.
The main objective of this study was to analyze and decompose the positive and negative impacts on political stability, trade, natural resources, renewable energy consumption, and environmental quality in South Africa using annual time series data from 1996 to 2021. This study employs an asymmetrical nonlinear ARDL approach to examine the short- and long-run influences of key variables. The study also used robust least squares and generalized method of moments (GMM) to evaluate the series' robustness. The findings show that political stability interacts positively and negatively with environmental quality under positive and negative shocks. The variables trade, economic growth, and renewable energy consumption negatively influenced environmental quality in South Africa, but natural resources uncovered a positive interaction during short- and long-run estimations. Furthermore, the findings of the robust least squares and GMM methods also revealed that political stability, trade, economic progress, and renewable energy consumption negatively influenced environmental quality in South Africa. Natural resources showed a positive influence on environmental quality during the investigation. The findings of this analysis indicate that South Africa would benefit from adopting more conservative and tightly regulated policy measures to enhance political stability, diversify its energy portfolio, and sustain a favorable trade balance. Implementing such policies carries important implications: they can strengthen the sustainable management of natural resources, support a shift away from environmentally harmful practices, and stimulate more resilient and inclusive economic growth.
This study examines the impact of human capital and financial services on household solar PV and biogas innovation uptake. Using survey data from 6230 households from Burkina Faso, multivariate probit and propensity score matching methods are employed. The results indicate that mobile money innovation increases the likelihood of solar PV and biogas selection by 34.82% and 42.62%, respectively. While access to formal credit improves the acceptance of solar PV by 21.73% and biogas by 26.74%, informal credit access only enhances the transition to biogas by 28.48%. Additionally, better health conditions are associated with 12.54% and 14.37% higher odds of promoting solar PV technology and biogas, respectively. Moreover, having "green" experiences increases household willingness to switch to solar PV and biogas innovations by 19.41% and 22.52%, respectively. Finally, household acceptance of renewable innovations is also influenced by social, demographic, geographical, and infrastructure attributes.
The conservation of water heritage has become a critical topic in recent years for the future of sustainable development. In international sources, declarations have been published by UNESCO and ICOMOS on the conservation of water heritage at the monument scale, and urban and landscape layers, water supply, storage, and transport have thus been protected; however, there is no equivalent for civil water architecture at the residential scale. During the research conducted within the scope of this study, traces of a water-sharing culture were revealed in residences in Bursa, T & uuml;rkiye. Within this framework, this study aims to identify the House-to-House Water Transport System and the historical distribution of P & imath;narba & scedil;& imath; spring water in the Hisar District of Bursa and to present a restitution proposal alongside a reliability analysis. Therefore, this paper aims to analyse the water technologies of traditional residences and to comprehensively evaluate the water heritage, including its tangible and intangible aspects. Based on a literature review, archive review, oral interviews and field investigations, novel information was ascertained regarding the use of water heritage on a residential scale. As a result of the study, the distribution of the P & imath;narba & scedil;& imath; water in the Hisar Neighbourhood of Bursa was determined, and its relationship with traditional residences was analysed.
The present study assessed the impact of the younger generation on environmental quality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the mechanisms by which urbanisation and household consumption expenditure have mediated this effect. It examined these objectives using data gathered from 46 SSA economies from 2000 to 2022 using the System Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) methodology. In the present study, the young dependency ratio described the ratio of children under 15 to the working-age population (aged 15-64), while people's ecological footprints measured environmental quality. According to the analysis results, an increase in the ratio of the younger population contributed significantly, but only slightly, to preserving environmental quality. In addition, urbanisation strengthened the impact of the younger population on environmental quality, whereas household consumption expenditure weakened it. The findings suggested that being recognised as the youngest region worldwide is a blessing that will help SSA achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
