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Trade and Gas Emission in Mauritius: Impact on Socioeconomic Health and Environmental Degradation

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The chapter analyses the short-run and long-run effects of international trade on the environment. For this purpose, the bounds testing method to cointegration is applied to a small island country setting of Mauritius and over the period 1980–2018. The result shows that that trade has adversely impacted on the environment. In addition to that, higher economic growth is as well observed to generate higher CO2 emission. Furthermore, the CUSUM and CUSUM square confirm the stability of the model for Mauritius.

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  1. University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius

    Sheereen Fauzel & Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur

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  1. Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

    Vijay P. Singh

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Rabindranath Tagore University, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

    Shalini Yadav

  3. Faculty of Science, Madhyanchal Professional University, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

    Krishna Kumar Yadav

  4. Natural Resources Development Centre, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research- Advanced Materials & Processes Research Institute (CSIR–AMPR),, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

    Ram Narayan Yadava

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Fauzel, S., Tandrayen-Ragoobur, V. (2022). Trade and Gas Emission in Mauritius: Impact on Socioeconomic Health and Environmental Degradation. In: Singh, V.P., Yadav, S., Yadav, K.K., Yadava, R.N. (eds) Environmental Degradation: Challenges and Strategies for Mitigation. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 104. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95542-7_21

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