Industrialization entails structural transformation of a traditional economy dominated by primary activities into a modern economy where high-productivity activities in manufacturing assume an…

Highlights Examines environment-health nexus and WTP in environmental policy design High perceived awareness on the link of environment and health Higher WTP, driven by education, age, gender and…

Abstract We empirically analyze drivers of the stock health of marine resources. We follow Copeland and Taylor (2009) to evaluate the extent to which the state of the stocks is explained by factors…

Existing studies disjointly addressed the environmental convergence and environmental Kuznets curve hypotheses, though these research lines are theoretically interconnected. This paper proposes a…

Over the last two decades, land acquisition for urbanization has caused a huge loss of farmland on the fringes of Hanoi, Vietnam. Previous studies have often criticized this policy for pushing farmers…

This paper assesses the role of foreign direct investment in economic growth by analyzing the contribution of sectoral external finance in Tanzania. Time series data from 1988 to 2017 and 1999 to 2017…

Abstract The production of charcoal to meet cooking needs of urban households is one of the main causes of deforestation and degradation of Africa’s tropical forests, which offer significant carbon…

The degradation of any ecosystem services (ES) and the benefits human being enjoy from nature freely involve multifaceted processes such as those in-built environment. The ecological security and…

The water crisis that gripped Cape Town over the 2016–2018 period gained global attention. For a brief period of time in early 2018, it looked as if the legislative capital of South Africa would…

This study seeks to examine the effect of government spending and taxation on economic growth in Tanzania for the 1967-2017 period. To achieve this objective, the study utilized secondary data and…