The Impact of Economic Complexity and Trading Complex Products on Environmental Indicators
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 3838
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable agriculture; food security; environmental protection; agri-food policies; sustainable food production; climate-smart agriculture; agri-food system innovation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental degradation has become a major problem for human beings in the 21st century. Emissions are the main cause of decreased environmental quality, which can lead to health and economic problems such as cancer, decreased productivity, and unpredictable weather conditions. Researchers have been working on the parameters that potentially impact environmental degradation over the last three decades. The economic structure of the country is a crucial indicator that impacts environmental degradation. The economic structure has been represented by economic complexity in the literature in recent years. The economic complexity index (ECI), which indicates the productive capabilities of countries, shows how complex and productive a country can be. According to complexity theory, every country has “capabilities”. These “capabilities” consist of different parameters such as quality of human capital, skilled workforce level, the patent system, law, roads, railways, transportation system, etc. The combination of these capabilities consists of the total complexity level of a given country. Diversified "capabilities" enable the manufacturing of more complex products. In terms of environmental degradation, higher economic complexity may have a negative or positive impact on the quality of the environment. This Special Issue will expand our knowledge of the relationship between the environment and different social and economic indicators (economic complexity, product complexity, sophistication, and concentration) so that we can make more reliable long-term plans.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Economic complexity (or product complexity) and environmental consequences;
- Eco-Innovation, Green Openness and environmental quality;
- Green Indicators such as Green Finance, Green Products, Green Innovation, and green entrepreneurship; their economic and environmental impacts;
- The impact of some economic indicators such as Tourism, Tourism Market Diversification, Financial Development, and Foreign Direct Investment on emissions;
- Renewable/nonrenewable energy-environmental footprint nexus;
- Theoretical formulation and empirical analysis of complex economies (such as the green economy) in relation to sustainable development;
- Determinants of Green Economy;
- Green Products and their impact on various environmental indicators;
- Innovation, economic structure, and environmental quality;
- Determinants of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption.
Dr. Behnaz Saboori
Dr. Muhlis CAN
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- economic complexity
- export product diversification
- trade openness
- greenhouse gases
- ecological footprint
- emissions
- green economy
