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International Journal of Environment Science and Technology
Center for Environment and Energy Research and Studies (CEERS)
ISSN: 1735-1472 EISSN: 1735-1472
Vol. 13, No. 8, 2016, pp. 2079-2090
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Bioline Code: st16190
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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International Journal of Environment Science and Technology, Vol. 13, No. 8, 2016, pp. 2079-2090
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Water consumption, agriculture value added and carbon dioxide emission in Iran, environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis
Najafi Alamdarlo, H.
Abstract
Agriculture and natural resources have a
mutual relationship with each other. The purpose of this
study was to evaluate forward and backward relationship
between natural resources and agricultural development.
The relationship between the consumption of water and
agricultural value added per capita income has been studied
in order to obtain the forward relationship, and the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and per capita
income of the Iran’s agricultural sector has been assessed
in order to obtain backward relationship. To test these
relationships, the Kuznets theory is used. Therefore, Iran’s
provinces information from 2001 to 2013 was used and
models were estimated by using the panel data and spatial
econometric. Results showed that there was an inverted U
relationship between per capita income and water consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. Also, spatial
estimation showed that both water consumption and carbon
dioxide (CO2) emissions in agricultural sector had a direct
relationship with the value of these two variables in the
neighboring areas.
Keywords
Carbon dioxide emission; Environmental Kuznets curve; Spatial econometric; Water consumption
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