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Advances in Energy Research Volume 6, Number 1, March 2019 , pages 1-15 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/eri.2019.6.1.001 |
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The water-energy-food resources and environment: Evidence from selected SAARC countries |
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Abdul Mansoor, Baserat Sultana, Saima Shafique and Khalid Zaman
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| Abstract | ||
| The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between water resources, energy demand, food production, and environmental pollutants in selected SAARC nations, namely, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, during the period of 1990-2016. The results show that water, energy, and food (WEF) resources substantially affected air quality in the form of high mass carbon emissions, fossil fuel energy demand, methane discharges, nitrous oxide emissions, and greenhouse gas emissions in these countries. Food production and food deficit largely increase CO2 emissions due to unsustainable production and malnutrition, while land use under cereal production increases CH4 and N2O emissions. Electricity production escalates CO2 emissions and fossil emissions across countries. The results support the carbon EKC hypothesis, while monotonic increasing function exists in case of fossil fuel energy. The study emphasizes the need to ensure environmental sustainability agenda by adopting cleaner production technologies in WEF resources. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| CO2 emission; energy and environment; energy efficiency; energy management; Sustainability and life cycle assessments | ||
| Address | ||
| Abdul Mansoor, Baserat Sultana and Khalid Zaman: Department of Economics, University of Wah, Wah Cantt 47040, Pakistan Saima Shafique: Department of Economics, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad 44010, Pakistan | ||
