Abdul Rahim A.S.

Universiti Putra Malaysia | UPM · Department of Economics

A mixture of oil consumption, toxic waste, chemicals, and plastic debris from fisheries operations may dissolve and suck oxygen from marine water, turning saltwater into poison for marine animals and ecosystems, as shown by the invisible marine water catastrophe. The study is to examine the dynamic relationship between the fishing industry and mari...

In aquaculture, the intellectual property issues are the risks to the stability of copyright, trademark, patent, and other domains of intellectual property rights. As a basis of the intellectual property of marine law in the European Union region (EU27), the interests and needs of creators and the public are in balance. When such a balance is not u...

There are many advantages of geothermal energy, as an environmentally friendly resource; however, for these benefits of geothermal power to be fully maximized, there are some problems that need to be addressed. The primary objective of this research was to examine the influence of intellectual property (IP) rights and economic growth on the geother...

This empirical study investigates the impact of deforestation on energy security in sub-Saharan Africa. To achieve this, we explored the intricate dynamics between deforestation, key energy security indicators, and socio-economic factors in sub-Saharan Africa. We employed a comprehensive dataset and analysed it with system GMM methodology and diffe...

The ocean, and the life that dwells in it, is the largest carbon sink of our planet, absorbing more than 25 percent of all CO2 emissions, and over 90 percent of the excess heat generated by humans The ocean, and the life that dwells in it, is the largest carbon sink of our planet, absorbing more than 25 percent of all CO2 emissions, and over 90 per...

The European geothermal heating market, at one time dominated by only a handful of countries, is set to experience a purple patch in the coming years as governments scramble to find an affordable alternative to expensive gas-fired heating. The primary focus of this study will be to investigate what effect will worldwide governance factors and econo...

If unauthorized resource use is prevented, managing marine resources by allocating property rights may match economic and environmental conservation incentives. However, because of the developing exploitation of marine resources and accompanying pollution, species' living conditions in Europe's waters are changing more quickly than before. By consi...

Hydropower comes with a lot of inestimable values. It is indubitably an ecosystem friendly resource that causes no harm to the natural state of the environment. This creates a better alternative to the heat energy radiating the earth. It is a cost-efficient source of energy and it offers unique opportunities to have cost-efficient tourism sector ma...

This study aims to investigate the impacts of information, communication, and technology (ICT) factors and economic growth on the hydropower output in the European Union (EU) states from 1990 to 2021. Adopting the autoregressive distributed lag, findings from this study revealed that there could be a significant increase in the hydropower industry...

There are many advantages of geothermal energy, as an environmental friend resource. This heat radiation emanating from beneath the earth's surface presents man with good opportunities to harness it and makes a good level of agricultural food production and its processing in the EU region. The primary objective of this research is to examine the im...

There are many advantages of geothermal energy as an environmentally friendly resource; however, there are quite a several challenges that need to be overcome to completely harness sustainable and renewable energy that is also natural. The primary aim of this study is to examine what influence geothermal energy will have on land use changes among t...

The primary objective of this study is to investigate the effect of geothermal energy output on carbon dioxide emissions among the European countries (EU) classified as EU27 states, within the time frame 1990 to 2021. The study adopted autoregressive-distributed lag (ARDL), and the findings show that the carbon dioxide emissions mitigate with an im...

Huge reliance on thermal power for electricity generation, the power sector of Pakistan has become significant contributor to GHG emissions. Government has plans to improve and upgrade the electricity infrastructure through generating more electricity from renewable energy sources. In order to evaluate the economic benefits which people are expecte...

Applying the least square dummy variable corrected (LSDVC) method, this study examines the impact of energy subsidies on the environmental quality of 70 low- and middle-income countries over the 2010–2019 period. The results indicate a positive impact of energy subsidies on environmental degradation. Also, the estimated results suggest a significan...

The hydropower industry is a crucial catalyst for improving the National Renewable Energy Action Plans (NREAPs) and mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in line with the Renewable Energy Directive of the European Union. Hydropower has been described as one of the most scalable electricity generations, enabling the incorporation of variable pro...

In recent years, the manufacturing sector in India has been witnessing a continuous growth in output production due to increase in investment in the sector and the government’s commitment to reduce reliance on imports and boost exports considering the country’s huge domestic market. However, this development is not environmentally friendly as incre...

This article examines the role of natural resource endowment in the economic growth-capital flows nexus in African economies. Utilizing the system generalized method of moments (GMM) approach and Westerlund regression approaches suitable for cointegration estimation of panel data, from 54 African countries over the time frame from 2012 to 2020. Con...

Using time series data from 1981 to 2015, this study examines the impact of poverty, population density, and trade openness on deforestation in Nigeria, and it tests the presence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis. The results of an autoregressive and distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to cointegration indicate that pov...

This study's main goal is to evaluate how the research will look at the impact of geothermal energy production on the quality of the subterranean in the 27 European nations from 1990 to 2021. A considerable decline in the subterranean water supply can occur in EU14 emerging nations employing geothermal energy growth compared to EU13 emerging econom...

This study estimates the impact of energy transition and the interactive role of political will on environmental degradation in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) over the 1999–2020 period. Using pooled mean group and fully modified ordinary least squares estimators, the estimated results revealed that energy transition and politic...

There are many advantages of the hydropower industry, as an environmentally friendly resource, and also some challenges that need to be overcome to fully exploit this sustainable and renewable natural resource. The primary objective of this study is to find out the impact of hydropower factors and economic growth on the agriculture industry output...

This paper investigates the impact of natural resources on conflict-capital flows relationship in 54 African economies over the 2010–2019 period. Applying econometric method of data analysis, the empirical estimation hinges on generalized method of moments, unit root tests, Kao cointegration test, cross-sectional dependence test, and quantile regre...

This research examines the spatial effect of financial development and technological innovation on green growth in China using the Spatial Durbin Model (SDM) based on the 30 provinces’ panel data from 2011 to 2018. The green growth index is measured by using Entropy Weight Method (EWM). The results show that: First, the development scale of financi...

This paper examines the effect of wood fuel energy consumption on forest degradation at regional and sub-regional levels of sub-Saharan Africa by taking into consideration the role of control of corruption and government effectiveness. To achieve the objective of the study, system generalized method of moments was used on a sample of 45 sub-Saharan...

This study investigates the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for haze in 31 cities and provinces across China using the spatial data for a period of 15 years, from 2000 to 2014. We utilized the geographically weighted regression (GWR) model to consider the spatial non-stationary characteristics of the air quality in a vast territory. This approach...

This paper aims to investigate the impact of the economic openness and institutional quality in explaining the environmental degradation in Malaysia that covers from 1980 to 2019. By using an innovative autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) technique, the result indicates that economic openness that is measured through the trade and FDI are unequiv...

The bioenergy industry is a proven option to replace fossil fuels in the heat supply and partly in the transport sector and generation of electricity. The study aims to investigate the empirical model of whether bioenergy use and institutional quality increase forest destruction in the European Union 28 countries covering the period 1990–2018, usin...

The European Union prioritised increased renewable energy and energy efficiency improvement towards a green economy and sustainable development. This research covers a two-stage analysis, where hydropower efficiency was measured in the first stage. Its external economic determinants were analysed in the second stage for the panel of 26 EU countries...

This research analyzes the influence of bioenergy use on food supply in the 28 European Union (EU) countries under the governance quality system in 1990–2018. We used the pooled ordinary least squares technique and found that bioenergy growth (under the quality governance system), fossil fuel, and gross domestic product appears to increase food sup...

This paper examines the influence of natural resources on conflict over the 2010–2019 period in 54 African countries using a novel quadratic regression model and threshold estimation. The choice of the study's time period was based on violence vulnerability and data availability. The threshold technique and quadratic regression were used as natural...

This research examines the impact of hydropower industry growth on carbon dioxide releases in twenty-eight nations under the European Union (EU 28) dated from 1990 to 2018. Utilizing panel fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS), the outcomes show that carbon dioxide releases decreased and growth in hydropower production and good governance....

This research explores the impact of hydropower growth on fish supply in European Union Region nations from 1990 to 2019. Using the panel fully modified ordinary least squares, the outcome exhibits the reduced fish supply with the growth in hydropower production. Also, human population density and growth economics were found to be decreasing fish s...

This research investigates the effect of hydropower yields on water quality in European Union participating nations from 1990 to 2019. Integrating the panel fully modified ordinary least squares, the outcomes show that water quality degradation increase with a rise in hydropower production growth. Similarly, fossil fuel, economic growth and populat...

Information and communication technology has been ascribed a crucial role in raising resource and energy efficiency and thereby contributing to environmental abatement. This study investigates the effect of information and communication technology on bioenergy industry sustainability in twenty-seven European Union members from 1990 through 2019. Us...

Climate change and finite energy supply issues have received substantial public attention in recent times. It has been argued that a sustainable energy supply associated with the promotion of clean energy is an important engine of growth, which calls for sound protection to reinforce investments in the renewable energy market. This paper examined t...

This study examined the impact of worldwide governance indicators on the sustainability of the bioenergy industry in selected European countries for the period 1996–2018. Applying the Fixed Effect (FE) Model, the results reveal that the bioenergy industry can significantly grow by improving the quality of worldwide governance indicators in European...

This investigation intends to answer the question of whether worldwide governance indicators have an impact on the improvement of the hydropower industry in 28 European Union (EU) countries from 1996 until 2018. Applying the panel fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS), the outcomes demonstrate the inclined hydropower industry growth and an...

This study contributes to the existing literature by examining bioenergy consumption and related factors in continental European countries (ECC). This study extends the current research through its focus on the ECC, which mainly consists of nationwide studies. This study analyses the determinants of bioenergy consumption in the ECC from 2005-2013,...

The purpose of this research is to examine the correlation between the bioenergy industry and economic outgrowth. This study investigates the growth hypothesis within the setting of conventional Cobb–Douglas production theory from 1990 to 2013 in the EU-28 region. The authors use unit root test approach, panel cointegration analysis, cointegration...

The aim of the research to investigate the effect of global competitiveness determinants on the sustainability of hydropower production in the European Union (EU 28) states from 1990 to 2018. Using the fully modified ordinary least square (FMOLS), the findings shows that the hydropower sector develops with an improvement in the international compet...

Urban public parks provide a recreational space for urban residents. However, some peoples claimed that Malaysia has yet to reach a satisfactory degree of urban public parks design and development to facilitate residents with a healthy environment. Therefore, there is an essential need to identify a public park’s characteristics that can satisfy an...

China’s green growth has shown a trend of fluctuation year by year. Simultaneously, Chinese local governments have pursued simple economic growth driven by the interests of “political competition” for a long time, while the supervision of the ecological environment has been loosened and tightened. In this environment, financial development and tech...

Under the current European Union (EU) constitution approved in May 2018, EU countries ought to guarantee that estimated greenhouse-gas releases from land use, land-use change, or forestry are entirely compensated by an equivalent accounted removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air during the period between 2021 and 2030. This study investigates...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate the profit efficiency of bioenergy industry and its determinants in EU28 region roadmaps for the transition towards energy efficiency which is increasingly perceived by stakeholders, researchers and the public as a pathway to bring dependency on fossil resources to a significant reduction. Many studi...

Purpose This research explores the effect of bioenergy use on carbon dioxide releases in 28 European Union (EU-28) affiliated members starting from 1990 to 2018. Design/methodology/approach Applying panels' fixed effect (FE) estimator and random effect (RE) estimator, the regressed findings are highly validated as they were robust by panel least s...

The Treaty of European Union (EU) sets out the EU vision for sustainable development of Europe based on balanced economic growth and price stability, a highly competitive social market economy, aiming at full employment and social progress, and a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment. This led us to ask whether...

The objective of this research is to examine the impact of bioenergy usage on health outcomes, especially adult mortality in both developed and underdeveloped countries in the European Union, where the use of solid biomass is growing to generate bioheat, biocool, and biopower. Over the period studied, findings indicate that increased consumption of...

Water is an essential component of agriculture-food production. As the biomass and biofuel are known excellent sources of renewable and sustainable energy, cultivating process consumes significant quantities of water. Without sufficient, good-quality and easily accessible water, the European agriculture-food production could thus be under threat. T...

In this article, we have investigated the impact of regulatory and economic factors in producing cleaner biofuels in selected seven key biomass markets. We test the long-run relationship among biofuel output (dependent variable), research and development expenditure, biofuel consumption, labor force participation, regulatory quality, and financial...

This research aims to inquire whether the gross domestic income, trade integration, foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, gross domestic product (GDP), and capital reduces carbon emissions in Nigeria. An Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing to cointegration and the improved Vector Autoregressive (VAR) approaches were employed for...

This paper seeks to answer an empirical question of whether clean biomass energy consumption lowers CO2 emissions while controlling for technical innovation in eight selected countries from Africa for the 1980–2015 period. The countries which are chosen based on availability of data on biomass energy and technological innovation include Egypt, Alge...

Implementation of green building (GB) practice is one of the environmental practice taken by some developers in order to overcome the loss of green space in urban area. The developers who are implement GB practice are eligible to get GB certificate. As reported by Green Building Index (GBI) on 2016, only 8% out of 2,000 developers have GB certifica...

Kelantan is one of the states in Malaysia with the third largest forest area in Malaysia. Most of the forest in Kelantan has not explored. However, some of the forest areas cleared for logging and development activities. In response to the Malaysian government’s commitment to sustainable forest management, the state of Kelantan took the initiative...

Bioenergy industry is a proven option to replace fossil fuels in the heat supply and partly in the transport sector and generation of electricity. The aim of this study is to investigate the empirical model pertaining whether bioenergy use and institutional quality impact forestry destruction in European Union countries. To achieve this, a selectio...

The authors have withdrawn this preprint due to author disagreement.

Recently, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions become the hottest issue in the transportation sector. The air transport sector contributes approximately 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft is one of the issues taken seriously by the transportation sector. However, air transportation has implemented sever...

This study investigates the effect of global competitiveness determinants on the growth of the bioenergy industry in the European Union (EU‐28) region from 1990–2018. Applying the panel fixed effect model, the results revealed that the bioenergy industry grows with an increase in the global competitiveness index. While human capital, innovation eco...

In recent years, the bioenergy industry has been gaining recognition among renewable energy sources in many countries, specifically in the EU28 member states, the unified green energy legislation in which the bioenergy industry is a significant player in achieving several climate and energy efficiency goals. This research investigated the total fac...

This study estimates the impact of wood fuel consumption on economic growth in 19 sub-Saharan African countries over the 1979-2017 period. The study employs dynamic macro-panel estimators, which comprises pooled mean group (PMG), mean group (MG), and dynamic fixed effects (DFE). The estimated result reveals that PMG is the most efficient estimator...

Applying the data envelopment approach, this paper computes efficiency change (EFFCH) in terms of its components: pure technical and scale efficiency changes. The least squares dummy variable corrected (LSDVC) method was employed to examine the determinants of efficiency change of bioenergy industry of the EU28 countries covering the period 1990–20...

This study investigates the effect of wood biomass energy consumption on CO2 emissions in 27 European Union (EU) member countries for the 1990–2017 period. Applying panel dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS), the results revealed that CO2 emissions decline with an increase in wood biomass energy consumption. While fossil fuel, GDP per capita and t...

This study assessed the economic value of public urban green spaces (UGSs) in Kuala Lumpur (KL) city by using the hedonic price method (HPM). It involves 1269 house units from eight sub-districts in KL city. Based on the hedonic price method, this study formulates a global and local model. The global model and local model are analyzed using ordinar...

This paper investigates the influence of the economic factors on the bilateral balance of trade (TB) of the EU28 zone bio-energy sector outcomes. Concentration is provided to estimate the J-curve hypothesis: whether the bio-energy output trade balance in the European Union region profits from a minimising of the value of the Euro European (EUR). Th...

We developed and evaluated a new approach to investigate the accuracy of forecasted analysis findings of the bioenergy market in the European Union EU-28 between 2014 and 2020. This study tests the accuracy of forecasted analysis results by applying panel data analysis and using the ARIMA forecasting model. Testing the forecasted accuracy for the b...

Article History Keywords Bioenergy industry Technical efficiency Capital input Labour input Gross domestic product Real interest rate EU-28 region. JEL Classification: Q20; Q01; Q56. This study identified the effects of economic factors on technical efficiency (TE) rate in the bio-energy section for the European Union zone (EU-28). A Tobit framewor...

Article History This study looks at how increasing efficiency drives the production of the bioenergy in the European Union (EU-28) region. The paper used the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) statistical approach to use the cost efficiency (CE) rate of the bio-energy industry of the EU-28 region as a dependent variable of this study in the first stag...

To encourage recycling in Malaysian households, a waste separation at source programme was implemented that made it mandatory for households to sort their waste into different categories before leaving it out for collection. Penalties designed to act as a deterrent are imposed on households that fail to sort their waste appropriately. But does this...

This paper estimates the impact of renewable energy on economic growth in West African countries using panel dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) by employing a sample of 15 West African countries covering the 1995-2014 period. The results indicated that renewable energy consumption slows down economic growth in these countries. This is attributed...

This study contributes to the existing literature by examining bioenergy intensity and its related factors in European continental countries (ECC). Through its focus on European continental (EC), this study extends the existing literature, which mainly covers nationwide studies. The current paper aims to investigate the variables of bioenergy inten...

This paper investigates the relationship between financial development and bio-energy consumption in the European Union (EU28) countries for the period from 1990 to 2013 through the panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach and causality analysis. The empirical results show that financial development shows a significant positive impact,...

There is a lack of systematic study on the impact of soil and water conservation on the sustainable development of agricultural economies and rural poverty reduction in China. This study investigates the effects of soil and water conservation on agricultural economic growth. It looks at levels of disposable income in rural households in China and u...

A boxplot is an exploratory data analysis (EDA) tool for a compact visual display of a distributional summary of a univariate data set. It is designed to capture all typical observations and displays the location, spread, skewness and the tail of the data. The precision of some of this functionality is considered to be more reliable for symmetric d...

This study attempts to find whether the bioenergy industry contributed to the growth of the energy sector in the EU-28 region from 1990 to 2013. This study adopts the framework of the conventional production function to identify the influence of the bioenergy industry on the growth of the energy totality industries in the EU-28 region. To this goal...

The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between health care and tourism sectors to economic growth in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Panel ARDL test was employed to investigate their long- and short-run relationships by examining annual time series data from 1995–2016. Results show a significant positive short- and long-run re...

The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between health care and tourism sectors to economic growth in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Panel ARDL test was employed to investigate their long-and short-run relationships by examining annual time series data from 1995-2016. Results show a significant positive short-and long-run rela...

Most previous bioenergy industry studies have focused on how to achieve a specific level of production. However, very few studies concentrate on the cost and the allocative and technical efficiency methods to achieve rational resource utilization. In light of the increase in the bioenergy industry’s economic competitiveness within the energy market...

Theoretically, population growth is believed to increase greenhouse gas emissions, particularly CO2 emissions through the increase in human activities. Accordingly, this study aimed to investigate this assertion in Nigeria using an autoregressive distributed lag model covering periods from 1971-2000, 1971-2005, and 1971-2010 recursively. The result...