Investigating the impact of globalization on sustainable resource management with an emphasis on environmental assumption: a quantile panel approach
Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
Department of of International Economics, Faculty of Economics, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran.
10.22059/jne.2025.385214.2726
Abstract
This study examines the impact of globalization on sustainable resource management across different quantiles for selected countries during the period 2000–2020 using the quantile regression approach. The findings reveal that globalization has a positive and significant effect on domestic resource consumption in the first three quantiles. From the fourth to the ninth quantile, however, this effect turns negative. Additionally, from the second quantile onward, the impact of economic growth on domestic material consumption aligns with the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis. The urbanization growth variable shows a negative effect on domestic resource consumption from the second to the seventh quantile but turns positive in the last two quantiles. Moreover, the results indicate that total factor productivity positively and significantly affects domestic resource consumption across all quantiles, though this effect diminishes in the higher quantiles, suggesting a rebound effect in resource consumption. Finally, the findings demonstrate that the value-added of the industrial sector consistently increases domestic resource consumption across all quantiles, thereby worsening sustainable resource management.
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