Pruim, C.A. (2021) The sustainability of ageing: a macro panel data analysis on the effects of ageing on environmental impact in OECD countries. Master thesis.
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Abstract
The environment is currently under great pressure. There are several anthropogenic causes labeled as the driving forces behind environmental degradation. One of these drivers that is only briefly touched upon in current literature is population ageing, which is a rapidly increasing phenomenon across the world. In the current literature the debate is often on the influence of ageing on CO2 emissions or energy consumption, whereas literature on a broad spectrum of environmental impact is often lacking. Besides that, the processes of ageing and environmental degradation are happening over time, therefore it is necessary to study the relationship over time. By taking a large time period (T=48) and a large sample of OECD countries (N=28), this study adds to the existing literature as often a small T or a small N is used in similar studies. This study aims to understand the influences of population ageing on environmental impact. However, population ageing is often a process that is closely related to other demographic and economic development factors, such as population growth, economic growth and urbanization. In order to fully understand the impact population ageing has on the environment, the possible influence of the other factors should be considered as well. This study uses a longitudinal panel approach, using a fixed-effects models. The data derives from both the Global Footprint Network and the World Bank. The models analyze the within-country effects of population ageing, population growth, economic growth and urbanization on environmental impact, measured through the Ecological Footprint. The results show that when also taking into account population growth, economic growth and urbanization that population ageing decreases the Ecological Footprint over time, during the time period of 1970 to 2017 for the 28 OECD countries in the sample. This means that in this study population ageing is beneficial to the environment as it decreases resource consumption and pollution on country level.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Population Studies |
| Supervisor: | Vogt, T.C. and Rutigliano, R. |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Feb 2021 10:46 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Feb 2021 10:46 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3432 |
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