A MULTIVARIATE CROSS-NATIONAL EUROPEAN REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
A MULTIVARIATE CROSS-NATIONAL EUROPEAN REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT

Author(s): Dominika Tóthová
Subject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Environmental Geography, Human Ecology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: ecological footprint; regression analysis; consumption;
Summary/Abstract: This empirical study provides evidence of the most critical human´s activities on environmental degradation expressed by the Ecological Footprint indicator. The aim of this paper is to investigate the impacts of the selected data from statistics of economy and finance, land cover and use, population and social condition, tourism, agriculture, international trade, transport and environment and energy on the variance of the Ecological Footprint of consumption per capita in the countries of the European Union. Using the multivariate regression analysis, I examined the significant predictors of differences in the Ecological Footprint of consumption per capita. As the best explanatory regression coefficients of the model were estimated exports of goods and services in % of GDP, participation in tourism for personal purposes per capita and percentage share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption.

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