Wenxin Wang1,2 Muhammad Hafeez3 Hong Jiang1,2 Waseem Ahmad3 Hammad Badar3 Raufhon Salahodjaev 4
Author Details:
1.Department of Public Administration, Law School, Shantou University, 243 Daxue Road, Shantou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China. 2.Institute of Local Government Development, Shantou 515063, People’s Republic of China. 3.Institute of Business Management Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38040, Pakistan. 4.Department of Mathematical Methods in Economics, Tashkent State University of Economics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Abstract
BRICS economies are facing severe environmental issues that exert a detrimental impact on human health. The analysis intends to examine the impact of CO2 emissions, environmental policy stringency, and environmental innovations on health outcomes for the BRICS economies. The long-run results of the ARDL-PMG infer that CO2 has a significant negative in the life expectancy model while it has a significant positive in the death rate model. These findings imply that the rise in CO2 emissions reduces life expectancy and increases the death rate in BRICS economies. On the other side, the estimates of environmental innovation and environmental policy stringency are positively significant in the life expectancy model; however, in the death rate model, the estimate of environmental innovation is insignificant, and environmental policy strin-gency is negatively significant in the death rate model. In a nutshell, the findings imply that CO2 emissions exacerbate health problems, environmental innovations, and environmental policy stringency, improving the health status of the people. Our findings suggest that the BRICS economies should revisit their environmental policies for the betterment of human health.
Keywords: Environmental factors, Human health, ARDL-PMG, BRICS
Cite this article
Wenxin Wang, Muhammad Hafeez, Hong Jiang, Waseem Ahmad , Hammad Badar , Raufhon Salahodjaev. Environmental factors and its influence on human health in BRICS: implications for human development. Environ Sci Pollut Res (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-23678-2
