Impact of trade liberalization of wood industry on environmental quality in Iran in relation to wood business partners (Case study: Carbon dioxide emission)

Abstract

Today, concern about environmental degradation and conservation is a priority. In this regard, the impact of trade on the environment is an important and growing issue in current politics. International trade affects the quality of the environment with respect to the three dimensions of scale, composition and technology. The carbon dioxide emission index is used to demonstrate environmental quality. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the liberalization of the wood industry on Iran's environmental quality in relation to the 16 main wood trade partners within 1995-2015. In this study, the data panel method and the Stata software were used to estimate the model. The results of the model showed that the effect of the scale of 0.08 units and the effect of the combination of 0.427 units were overcome by the technical effect. Also, the results showed that due to the liberalization of the wood industry of Iran in relation to its wood partners, the combination of the three mentioned factors amounting to 0.424 units would reduce the quality of the environment.

Keywords

• Environmental quality
• Iran
• panel data
• scale impact