Over-urbanization and air pollution: a cross-country analysis

• Authors: Salahodajev Raufan

Abstracts

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This paper investigates the effect of overurbanization on different measures of air pollution in a diverse sample of developed and developing countries. The main finding is that overurbanization increases greenhouse gas emissions, measured by CO2, NOx and SO2 emissions per capita. This effect is robust to controlling for various antecedents of air pollution. Our findings provide a contribution to the ongoing debate over the role of urbanization in environmental changes.

Keywords

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over-urbanization,; air pollution,; CO2,; NOx,; SO2,; cross-country,; environment

• Publisher: University Service Publishing, Prague, Czech Republic
• Journal: International Economics Letters
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 69-75

Contributors

author

Salahodajev Raufan

• is a Research Fellow at the State University of New York at Binghamton, United States and the Researcher at the Institute of Forecasting and Macroeconomic Research, Uzbekistan