Environmental Performance in EU Countries from the Perspective of Its Relation to Human and Economic Wellbeing

Ulman, Simona-Roxana; Mihai, Costică; Căutișanu, Cristina; Brumă, Ioan Sebastian; Coca, Oana; Stefan, Gavril

doi:10.3390/ijerph182312733

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“…In this way, energy savings and renewable energy, evaluated in terms of levels of wellbeing, are put face to face with the indicators of human and economic wellbeing and analyzed from the perspective of their effects on them. More clearly, as shown in previous studies (Ulman et al, 2021a(Ulman et al, , 2021bUlman et al, 2020), positive relationships could be able to reveal a sustainable path of development as human and economic components prove to be able of overcoming the most common way of influence, i.e. a negative one in relation to environment.…”

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“…Therefore, as Ulman et al (2021a) underlined, sustainability appears to represent the process of reconciliation and balance among different tendencies occurring in its three dimensions. This study intends to reveal if salient differences between the levels of each dimension are present across the Romanian society on New Trends in Sustainable Business and Consumption in the period between 2006 and 2020.…”

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Study on Environmental Wellbeing and Its Main SocioEconomic Factors: Evidence from Romania

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2022

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Sustainability especially targets the process of reconciliation and balance among specific tendencies occurring in its economic, human, and environmental dimensions. This study intends to reveal if salient differences between the levels of each dimension are present across a punctual national context, i.e. the Romanian one, in the 2006-2020 period. It also intends to investigate the effects of economic and social sectors on the main weak points of environmental wellbeing, if these are still significant and negative or, contrary, if sustainable path could be found in these links in the same circumstances of analysis. In this way, we centered our debate on environmental performance, found its main vulnerabilities for observing, on one hand, if Romania follows different environmental paths comparatively with the other two dimensions of wellbeing and, on the other hand, the nature of the effects of society's performance (with its economic and social parts) upon it. Particularly, our study aims to respond to a practical need of research in this country, being also possible to represent a support for the policies addressing sustainable development in the Romanian context. Based on descriptive and path analyses, our results showed that, in the case of environmental wellbeing, the most vulnerable indicators are shown to be the ones regarding renewable energy and energy savings. The main susceptibilities in Romania seemed to be in respect to the relationship between (1) energy savings and safe sanitation, healthy life, population growth, public debt, employment and (2) renewable energy and healthy life, population growth, public debt. Accordingly, the two most sensitive environmental indicators were shown to be affected by these human and economic components of wellbeing, recommendations being formulated in the directions of more careful strategical actions for their improvement in such a way of not highly contributing to the degradation of the environment.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Study on Environmental Wellbeing and Its Main SocioEconomic Factors: Evidence from Romania

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Căutișanu²

2022

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“…They represent the independent variables in the context of panel data models, while the indicators reflecting the weak points of environmental wellbeing represent the dependent variables. For increased clarity, Figure 7 shows the conceptual framework proposed in this article, following that used in different articles, such as ; Ulman et al (2021a); Ulman et al (2021b), which aimed at establishing the nature of influence among, on the one hand, environmental and, on the other, economic and social components of wellbeing in different contexts, i.e., the European Union, the Central and Eastern European Countries, and the global level dividing countries in terms of stages of national development. However, these articles supported the observations of other studies that emphasized the impossibility of precisely detecting the consequences of different patterns of development.…”

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Environmental wellbeing in the context of sustainable development: Evidence from post-communist economies

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Considering diverse national contexts, there are differences in the capacity of countries in terms of their ability to attain sustainability in its three main dimensions. The present study puts the economic, social, and environmental indicators face-to-face from 19 post-communist economies across the 2006–2020 period. It emphasizes the main vulnerabilities at the level of the analyzed countries, concentrates on these weak points, and offers concrete explanations regarding the main social and economic factors, exerting a negative influence on them. Consequently, placing climate and energy, with their major components, i.e., energy use, energy savings, greenhouse gases, and renewable energy, at the center of the analysis, as the major weak points of environmental wellbeing within the analyzed group of countries, the nature of the influence of human and economic wellbeing upon each of them is evidenced using panel data-specific methods (pooled, fixed, and random effects). The general results obtained showed the following: 1) the components of environmental wellbeing registered a different evolution among post-communist economies; 2) climate and energy components were the main vulnerabilities in terms of environmental sustainability; 3) these environmental components were closely linked to both components of economic and social dimensions; and 4) the determinants of energy use, energy savings, greenhouse gases, and renewable energy were different in the selected group of countries. This study draws attention to the fact that the patterns of development applied in the group of post-communist economies seem to strengthen sustainable goals, especially with regard to economic and human wellbeing. Moreover, while directing its focus on the main urgent environmental vulnerabilities and encouraging their strengthening by not putting the economic dimension in the center of interest, it supports the theoretical perspective of sustainable wellbeing, based on sustainability and ecological economics.

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“…This percentage increased by 2.5%, compared to 2019, so that 60.9% of urban households had internet access, while in rural areas, only 39.1% had an internet connection. Therefore, internet access is determined not only by the financial position of each household, but also by the opportunities that providers offer at the territorial level [56,57]. Figure 9 shows the gap between rural and urban areas in terms of internet access.…”

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Analysis and Estimation of Economic Influence of IoT and Telecommunication in Regional Media Based on Evolution and Electronic Markets in Romania

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2022

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The interconnection of devices, intended to collect and transmit data via the Internet, is called the Internet of Things (IoT). This technology has the potential to revolutionize both the economic and industrial sectors, especially in terms of data confidentiality and information security. New media, with a merger between those two, have increasingly replaced traditional media, but many researchers characterize them as two distinct but interconnected types of media. From the traditional media, with its technological evolution, the IoT has supported the development of the media through the emergence of applications, websites, and social networks designed to spread information worldwide. This research focuses on how the IoT has the ability to influence economic growth by trying to determine the impact of the IoT through theories and the evolution of economic growth. Thus, the concept of the IoT is interdependent on information and communications technology and, from an economic point of view, is correlated with productivity. In addition, the processes that have an impact on the media are those of an economic nature, all of which are interconnected with progress, innovation, and the promotion of goods and services. At the same time, this paper aims to determine the correlation between IoT and the economy, with a focus on the media, which has the main result of the development of new businesses. Thus, a bibliometric analysis of the scientific papers on the Web of Science platform regarding the IoT field was performed, in order to identify the current state of knowledge in this field. The results of this analysis highlighted that both the IoT and the economy are shaped by innovation, opportunities, and development.

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Environmental Performance in EU Countries from the Perspective of Its Relation to Human and Economic Wellbeing

Cited by 8 publications

References 80 publications

Study on Environmental Wellbeing and Its Main SocioEconomic Factors: Evidence from Romania

Study on Environmental Wellbeing and Its Main SocioEconomic Factors: Evidence from Romania

Environmental wellbeing in the context of sustainable development: Evidence from post-communist economies

Analysis and Estimation of Economic Influence of IoT and Telecommunication in Regional Media Based on Evolution and Electronic Markets in Romania

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