RT Journal Article
T1 Socioeconomic driving forces behind air polluting emissions in Mexico
A1 Vega Campa, Mayra
A1 Soliño Millán, Mario
A1 André García, Francisco Javier
A2 Khalid Bashir, Muhammad
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
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/92986
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/92986
LA eng
NO Vega-Campa, Mayra, Francisco J. André, y Mario Soliño. «Socioeconomic Driving Forces behind Air Polluting Emissions in Mexico». Editado por Muhammad Khalid Bashir. PLOS ONE 18, n.o 10 (12 de octubre de 2023): e0292752. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292752.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 7 abr 2025