A novel EKC perspective: do agricultural production, energy transition, and urban agglomeration achieve ecological sustainability?

Nudging Sustainable Development: Reviewing Energy Transition and Economic Development

“…It is suggested that, in order to identify more appropriate proxy variables [108], employing various methods such as content analysis, interviews, or questionnaire surveys is necessary to collect data [79,102,108]. Some research used more complex methods such as quantile ARDL technique for regression and causality analysis [30,45], CS-ARDL [26], employing the Tapio decoupling model combined with LMDI decomposition method [59], and utilizing more robust logarithmic cost functions [102] to clarify the effects at different quantile positions (rather than average effects) to discuss the effect of different groups or scenario.…”

“…In the sample literature, scholars explored the relationships between carbon emissions, carbon footprints, energy consumption, energy transition, economic development, FDI, trade levels, and other indicators using the EKC hypothesis [75,[78][79][80][81]. They conducted analyses from different perspectives, including causality, consequences, and the transformation's impact on development quality [30,60,68,82]. Previous research has considered the EKC as an essential component for understanding the environmental pollution problems associated with various levels of economic development, contributing to a broader understanding of the macroeconomy and environmental pollution.…”

“…Furthermore, energy transition also impacts economic development, with effects varying in the short and long term, and across different ranges, potentially having positive, negative, and bidirectional causal relationships [65,71,115]. Scholars have attributed the divergent research conclusions to differences in research subjects, such as disparities between developing and developed regions [7,30,32], different research levels [1,38], limited number of studied countries [11,31], and insufficient research data [108]. Therefore, it is essential to broaden the scope of research [7], expand the study subjects [14], conduct grouping or classification studies [2], extend data periods [68], and perform heterogeneous analyses [31].…”

“…It was found in [5] that in the process of global economic development, emerging economies such as China and India have been driving the world's energy demand upwards. Scholars have begun to incorporate an increasing number of factors into their considerations, utilizing past data to explore the relationship between energy transition and economic growth [27,28], the application of new energy sources, and other elements influencing regional economic development [22,29,30]. Furthermore, factors such as foreign direct investment (FDI), domestic trade, domestic financial development, and the growth of the digital economy have varying degrees of influence on a country's energy transition and emissions [8,17,[31][32][33].…”

How to Coordinate the Relationship between Urban Space Exploitation, Economic Development, and Ecological Environment: Evidence from Henan Province, China

“…The research on the coupling and coordination relationship between SEcol in this study is also applicable to other countries. Scholars from other countries believe that the development of cities cannot be separated from a good ecological environment and adopt a series of methods to explore the relationship between urban development and ecological environment [68,69].…”