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- Title
THE MUTUAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REGIONAL INCOME AND DEFORESTATION: A STUDY ON TURKEY (1).
- Authors
ELBURZ, Zeynep; Mert ÇUBUKÇU, K.; NIJKAMP, Peter
- Abstract
This paper addresses the bilateral relationship between growth and environment. It aims to show how regional economic growth causes environmental deterioration, while the environmental resources function in turn as a supply factor for economic development. A simultaneousequations model is developed and applied to test this two-way relationship statistically, where economic growth is measured by regional income, and environmental deterioration by deforestation. Using data from 26 NUTS 2 regions in Turkey between the years 2004 and 2014, the results of the twostage least squares (2SLS) regression analysis reveal strong evidence on the presence of a mutual relationship between deforestation and regional income, while lagged deforestation is a statistically significant positive determinant of income growth, and vice versa.
- Subjects
DEFORESTATION; ECONOMIC development; SIMULTANEOUS equations; REGRESSION analysis; ENVIRONMENTAL degradation; ECONOMIC conditions in Turkey
- Publication
METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture / Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, 2018, Vol 35, Issue 2, p77
- ISSN
0258-5316
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4305/METU.JFA.2018.2.4