Fəxri Həsənov’s scientific contributions

In this study, we examined impacts of population age groups of 15-64 and 65-above on residential electricity use in Russiain STIRPAT framework. Unlike many prior studies of STIRPAT framework, we analyzed the impacts of employing cointegration and error correction method in order to rule out possible spurious estimation results causing by non-stationarity of data used. Results from the Autoregressive Distributed Lags Bounds Testing approach, which is the preferable method among alternatives in the case of small samples, indicated that the affluence has significant impact on the residential electricity use in Russia, while population age group 15-64 has insignificant but positive impact. Findings of the study may be useful in making appropriate decisions in the fields of residential electricity consumption.

This study discusses the concept of sustainable development and İPAT, ImPACT and STIRPAT model frame works which are related to environment protection - one of the important elements of sustainable development concept - with another elements of that concept – economic growth and social factors. It has been noted that deter ministic nature of IPAT and ImPACT frameworks restricts their wide applicationin empirical studies in order to estimate relationships between environmental impacts, affluence, population and technology. To overcome the gaps of the IPAT and ImPACT models Dietz and Rosa developed STIRPAT model on the base of above mentioned models which enables to estimate both stochastic and nonproportional relationships. Study also explains the meaning of ecological elasticity coefficients in the STIRPAT framework and appropriate applicable exlplanatory and explained variables.