Socioeconomic driving forces behind air polluting emissions in Mexico

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dc.contributor.authorMayra Vega-Campa
dc.contributor.authorMario Soliño
dc.contributor.authorAndré García, Francisco Javier
dc.contributor.editorMuhammad Khalid Bashir
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-15T09:32:04Z
dc.date.available2024-01-15T09:32:04Z
dc.date.issued2023-10-12
dc.description.abstractAir pollution is one of the most severe environmental problems that Mexico is currently facing. The objective of this paper is to quantify the most relevant socioeconomic driving forces behind air polluting emissions and, more specifically, 7 local pollutants in Mexico. We do so in a multilevel version of the Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence and Technology (STIRPAT) model that accounts for the spatial heterogeneity at the municipal level across the country. The results show that the most relevant variables to determine the emissions of atmospheric pollutants are the population, the harvested area and the number of cars, while technological development helps to mitigate such emissions. The ecological elasticities are, in all cases, smaller than one. Our purpose is to provide quantitative information about these socioeconomic driving forces of air deterioration as a basis to establish some recommendations for environmental policy decision-making.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Análisis Económico y Economía Cuantitativa
dc.description.facultyFac. de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.statuspub
dc.identifier.citationVega-Campa M, André FJ, Soliño M (2023) Socioeconomic driving forces behind air polluting emissions in Mexico. PLoS ONE 18(10): e0292752. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292752
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0292752
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.officialurlhttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292752
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/92986
dc.issue.number10
dc.journal.titlePlos One
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPlos One
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject.ucmEconomía
dc.subject.ucmMedio ambiente
dc.subject.unesco53 Ciencias Económicas
dc.titleSocioeconomic driving forces behind air polluting emissions in Mexico
dc.typejournal article
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dc.volume.number18
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