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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dc.authoridalola, andrew/0000-0001-5355-3707
dc.contributor.authorÖzkan, Oktay
dc.contributor.authorAlola, Andrew Adewale
dc.contributor.authorEluwole, Kayode Kolawole
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-11T19:50:18Z
dc.date.available2024-09-11T19:50:18Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.departmentİstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractWith 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.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipInland Norway University Of Applied Sciences; Editorial office of the Journalen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAuthors appreciate the Editorial office of the Journal and the anonymous referees for providing relevant comments.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10668-024-04806-z
dc.identifier.issn1387-585X
dc.identifier.issn1573-2975
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85191387386en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-024-04806-z
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11363/7606
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001208963500002en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironment Development And Sustainabilityen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.snmz20240903_Gen_US
dc.subjectPakistanen_US
dc.subjectLoad capacity curve hypothesisen_US
dc.subjectNuclear energy intensityen_US
dc.subjectStructural changesen_US
dc.subjectDynamic ARDL simulationsen_US
dc.titleDynamic environmental quality effect of nuclear energy intensity, structural changes, and natural resources in Pakistan: testing load capacity factor hypothesis evidenceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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