Toward a sustainable environment: nexus between geothermal energy growth and land use change in EU economies

• Main Authors: Alsaleh, Mohd, Abdul Rahim, Abdul Samad
• Format: Article
• Published: Springer Nature 2023
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/108650/; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-022-23377-y?
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

There are many advantages of geothermal energy as an environmentally friendly resource; however, there are quite a several challenges that need to be overcome to completely harness sustainable and renewable energy that is also natural. The primary aim of this study is to examine what influence geothermal energy will have on land use changes among the considered 27 states in the European Union from the time being 1990 to 2021. The study adopts the auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL); the findings show that geothermal energy growth could be leveraged to achieve remarkable growth in land use change among the 13 European developing economies than among the 14 EU developed economies.