Publications by authors named "Abdo Al-Barakani"
Digital social responsibility (DSR) has emerged as a wise strategic decision for all higher education institutions during the new crown pandemic. This study explores whether the DSR dimensions (social, economic, legal, and environmental) enhance digital education (DE) in universities. Specifically, this paper intends to investigate the impact of digital culture (DC) on these relationships as a mediator variable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are highly vulnerable to climate change, including rising sea levels, extreme weather, and other environmental and social issues. GCC countries showed remarkable economic growth and development. However, this growth and development put severe pressure on the environment, leading to the degradation of the Environment.
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- * For net-oil exporting countries, high consumption of nonrenewable energy boosts economic growth, while low consumption limits it; renewable energy has a linear impact, and oil price fluctuations affect growth differently in the short vs. long run.
- * On the other hand, for net-oil importing countries, nonrenewable energy's effects vary between short and long runs, renewable energy impacts are not significant, and oil price fluctuations consistently influence economic growth, but the overall impacts are more pronounced in exporting nations.
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- The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) significantly impacts global economics and climate change, yet scientists often overlook the factors influencing these effects in BRI countries.
- An in-depth study examined how foreign direct investment (FDI) and biomass energy consumption (BEC) affect greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 57 BRI countries from 1992 to 2012, using various spatial models to assess environmental hypotheses.
- Findings indicated that FDI increases GHG emissions, supporting the pollution haven hypothesis, while biomass energy consumption shows a negative impact; additionally, the relationship between economic growth and GHG emissions follows an N-shaped curve, with policy recommendations for BRI countries proposed.
Analysis on the causes of the change in the north-south gap of industrial pollution discharge in China.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
May 2022
What are the causes of the change in the north-south gap of industrial pollution discharge in 2008 and 2016? In order to solve this problem, this paper makes theoretical and empirical research. The results show that (1) the difference in economic growth pattern transformation is the root cause of the change in the north-south gap of industrial pollution discharge.(2) The international financial crisis is the direct cause of the change in the north-south gap of industrial pollution discharge in 2008.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study investigates the spatial influence and spillover effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on environmental pollution (EP) by using panel spatial data in 1970-2016 for 12 selected Arab countries. It employs the STochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology (STIRPAT) model. The spatial econometric approach is applied to examine the validity of the pollution haven hypothesis (PHH) and the pollution halo hypothesis (P-HH) (from now on, we will use the acronyms PHH and P-HH to denote the pollution haven hypothesis and pollution halo hypothesis, respectively).
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