The Mutual Relationship Between Regional Income and Deforestation: A Study on Turkey

2018-6-28
Elburz, Zeynep
Çubukçu, K. Mert
Nijkamp, Peter
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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.
Economic growth, Simultaneousequations, Deforestation, Two-stage regression
http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/articles/metujfa2018204.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/50597
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Z. Elburz, K. M. Çubukçu, and P. Nijkamp, “The Mutual Relationship Between Regional Income and Deforestation: A Study on Turkey,” ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 77–87, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/articles/metujfa2018204.pdf.
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