ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INTURKEY: ARE THEY OPPOSITE CONCEPTS?

• Main Authors: E.Yasemin Bozdağlıoğlu, Mesut Çakır
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Social Sciences Research Society 2013-01-01
• Series: International Journal of Economics and Finance Studies
• Online Access: http://www.sobiad.org/eJOURNALS/journal_IJEF/archieves/2013_1/E.Yasemin-Bozda.pdf

The growing interest in global environmental issues whose importance hasbeen steadily increasing and the demand for environmental quality and theirmutual relation with economic growthare closely related. Economic growth,while increasing the level ofnational income over time, brings with it concernsabout environmental quality.The purpose of this study is to examine therelationship between Turkey's economicgrowth (Gross Domestic Income-GDP)and environmental quality. In this study,the Environmental Kuznet Hypothesis,which assumes a correlation between various indicators of environmentaldegradation and per capita income in examining the relationship, will be used.The Granger Causality Test and Cointegration Test methods will be used indetermining the relationship between thecourse of environmental degradation inthe first phase of economic growth and thedegree of environmental effect in theperiod between 1960 and 2011 (with annual data) in Turkey.