Abstract
As environmental degradations constantly and directly threaten human well-being, it is imperative to explore the environmental impacts on people’s happy life. This research investigates the association between subjective well-being (SWB) and ecological footprints (EF) through space-time fixed effects panel regressions. EF, as a vital indicator of environmentally sustainable development, plays a vital role in ecological balance. SWB determines the subjective quality of life for humanity. EF-related factors and socio-economic indexes referring to GDP, urbanization rate, income, education, health, political stability, and political voice accountability in 101 countries were captured. Compared with ordinary least square (OLS), stepwise regression (SR) and fixed effects panel regression models (FEPR) exhibited good fitness regardless of the cross-section or longitudinal models due to R2 beyond 0.9. The finding also discloses that EF and health were positively significant to SWB, while income was negatively significant to SWB. EF was an invert u-shaped link to SWB, which met the assumption of EKC. This research provided a model-driven quantitative method to address environmental impacts on people’s quality life of happiness, and opened shared doors for further research of carbon balance and circular economy.
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The result of panel unit root with subjective well-being (SWB) variable is shown in Table 1. p-value is 0, qualified cross-section records are 99, observation records are 826 cases
The results show that BC is positively related to SWB, based on the coefficient of 0.022, meaning bio-capacity on geographical differences positively increased happiness recognition, but ecological footprints (EF) is negatively related to SWB due to the coefficient of −0.022, indicating human consumption with spatial heterogeneity inhibits happiness identity
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s data Accessed on 31 August 2021), diverse environmental metrics are dramatically tended to negative impacts with different levels [1,2], not to mention COVID-19, as a global social, environmental, and economic comprehensive crisis, intangibly deprived human life, public health [3]. The research of environmental deterioration in the world triggering problematical environmental health has far-reaching effects, facilitating both countries environment and health head for the right direction and finding out the best way to realize the goal of higher well-being with lower consumption. Exploring spatio-temporal associations between ecological footprint and subjective well-being (SWB)
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