Journal
ENERGY POLICY
Volume 107, Issue -, Pages 678-687Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2017.03.072
Keywords
Urbanization; Urban primacy; Carbon dioxide emissions; Two-way fixed effects model; STIRPAT
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41461118, 71603102]
- National Key R & D Program of China [2016YFA0602500]
- National Social Science Foundation of China [15ZDA054]
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As a crucial indicator of modernization, urbanization has significant effects on carbon dioxide emissions. Using a panel data of 141 countries over the period of 1961-2011, this paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on carbon dioxide emissions empirically. We employ two-way fixed effects model based on the extended STIRPAT theoretical frameworks. Our results show that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between urbanization and carbon emissions and the turn point is around 73.80%. But excessive urban concentration can claim the benefits of high-level urbanization. These findings can also help policy makers to use efficient urbanization to curb the carbon emissions, especially for the Asian countries that with high density of population.
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