LULUCF Including - Excluding Emissions and Health Expenditures Path and
Panel Data Analysis of Solution Result Relationship Example of G7
Countries
Abstract
Traditional production is carried out using fossil fuels. In recent
years, the destructive effects of fossil fuel elimination especially on
human health and the environment became prominent. This effect leads to
an increase in health expenditures (HE), and health problems that are
severe and require long term therapies. To counter this problem, some
countries have taken some measures to mini the effects of fossil fuels.
One of these measures is called “Land Use, Land Use Change and
Forestry” or LULUCF for short. LULUCF aims to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions in the atmosphere by natural means that are cheap. In this
regard, this paper aims to analyze the effects of harmful gases of total
emissions in terms of health expenditures both including LULUCF (LI) and
excluding LULUCF (LE). Panel data methodology and SPSS Path (Structural
Equation) Model were used and cover G7 countries between 1990 and 2016.
It was found that there is no linear relationship between LE and HE and
LI has no effect on HE. Path analysis showed a negative correlation
between LI total emission and SH and a positive correlation between LE
total emission and HE.