Environmental challenges and political regime transition: the role of historical legacies and the European Union in Eurasia

This paper addresses the impact of political regimes on carbon emissions (CO2) from a historical perspective, covering the period of 1970–2015. Our sample consists of 153 countries that we follow for 20 years before the transition (1970–1990) and 26 years after it (1990–2015). During transition, pos...

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Autores: Nazarov, Zafar, Obydenkova, Anastassia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2021.1995437
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Palabra clave:Contaminació
Postcomunisme
Euràsia
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spelling Environmental challenges and political regime transition: the role of historical legacies and the European Union in EurasiaNazarov, ZafarObydenkova, AnastassiaContaminacióPostcomunismeEuràsiaThis paper addresses the impact of political regimes on carbon emissions (CO2) from a historical perspective, covering the period of 1970–2015. Our sample consists of 153 countries that we follow for 20 years before the transition (1970–1990) and 26 years after it (1990–2015). During transition, postCommunist states experienced a decline in CO2, when controlling for economic variables. Transition had a positive impact on the environment only in cases when it was associated with democratization. When transition has led to consolidation of autocratic regimes, CO2 has increased.Taylor & Francis202320232022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/56832http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2021.1995437reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésProblems of Post-Communism. 2022;69(4-5):396-409.© 2021 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/568322026-06-12T07:21:37Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Environmental challenges and political regime transition: the role of historical legacies and the European Union in Eurasia
title Environmental challenges and political regime transition: the role of historical legacies and the European Union in Eurasia
spellingShingle Environmental challenges and political regime transition: the role of historical legacies and the European Union in Eurasia
Nazarov, Zafar
Contaminació
Postcomunisme
Euràsia
title_short Environmental challenges and political regime transition: the role of historical legacies and the European Union in Eurasia
title_full Environmental challenges and political regime transition: the role of historical legacies and the European Union in Eurasia
title_fullStr Environmental challenges and political regime transition: the role of historical legacies and the European Union in Eurasia
title_full_unstemmed Environmental challenges and political regime transition: the role of historical legacies and the European Union in Eurasia
title_sort Environmental challenges and political regime transition: the role of historical legacies and the European Union in Eurasia
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Nazarov, Zafar
Obydenkova, Anastassia
author Nazarov, Zafar
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Obydenkova, Anastassia
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Contaminació
Postcomunisme
Euràsia
topic Contaminació
Postcomunisme
Euràsia
description This paper addresses the impact of political regimes on carbon emissions (CO2) from a historical perspective, covering the period of 1970–2015. Our sample consists of 153 countries that we follow for 20 years before the transition (1970–1990) and 26 years after it (1990–2015). During transition, postCommunist states experienced a decline in CO2, when controlling for economic variables. Transition had a positive impact on the environment only in cases when it was associated with democratization. When transition has led to consolidation of autocratic regimes, CO2 has increased.
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