RT Journal Article
T1 Socioeconomic driving forces behind air polluting emissions in Mexico
A1 Mayra Vega-Campa, 
A1 Mario Soliño, 
A1 André García, Francisco Javier
A2 Muhammad Khalid Bashir, 
AB Air 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.
PB Plos One
SN 1932-6203
YR 2023
FD 2023-10-12
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/92986
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/92986
LA eng
NO Vega-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
DS Docta Complutense
RD 30 sept 2024