{"title":"The impact of corruption on climate risk – An international evidence","authors":"Dejun Zhou , Vincent Konadu Tawiah , Noha Alessa","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101059","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Prior studies suggest that climate disasters increase corruption due to the windfall of donations. However, is it possible that corruption increases the probability of occurrence and consequences of climatic disasters? This paper investigates the intricate relationship between corruption and climate risk using a comprehensive panel dataset spanning 171 countries from 2006 to 2019. Employing robust econometric methodologies, including fixed effects and a two-step generalised method of moments, we explore whether corruption exacerbates the probability and severity of climate-related disasters. Our findings reveal a significant positive association between corruption levels and climate risk, indicating that corruption amplifies both the frequency and consequences of climate disasters. Importantly, this relationship holds across diverse geographical locations and development statuses, with a particularly pronounced impact observed in developing countries where corruption compounds existing infrastructural vulnerabilities. These findings highlight the imperative for policymakers to address corruption alongside environmental and geographical factors in crafting effective strategies to mitigate climate-related disasters and enhance global resilience.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 101059"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211464524000976/pdfft?md5=53e3e23ff54e7fb3af3d6d5ef9776d58&pid=1-s2.0-S2211464524000976-main.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Environmental Development","FirstCategoryId":"93","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211464524000976","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Prior studies suggest that climate disasters increase corruption due to the windfall of donations. However, is it possible that corruption increases the probability of occurrence and consequences of climatic disasters? This paper investigates the intricate relationship between corruption and climate risk using a comprehensive panel dataset spanning 171 countries from 2006 to 2019. Employing robust econometric methodologies, including fixed effects and a two-step generalised method of moments, we explore whether corruption exacerbates the probability and severity of climate-related disasters. Our findings reveal a significant positive association between corruption levels and climate risk, indicating that corruption amplifies both the frequency and consequences of climate disasters. Importantly, this relationship holds across diverse geographical locations and development statuses, with a particularly pronounced impact observed in developing countries where corruption compounds existing infrastructural vulnerabilities. These findings highlight the imperative for policymakers to address corruption alongside environmental and geographical factors in crafting effective strategies to mitigate climate-related disasters and enhance global resilience.
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Environmental Development provides a future oriented, pro-active, authoritative source of information and learning for researchers, postgraduate students, policymakers, and managers, and bridges the gap between fundamental research and the application in management and policy practices. It stimulates the exchange and coupling of traditional scientific knowledge on the environment, with the experiential knowledge among decision makers and other stakeholders and also connects natural sciences and social and behavioral sciences. Environmental Development includes and promotes scientific work from the non-western world, and also strengthens the collaboration between the developed and developing world. Further it links environmental research to broader issues of economic and social-cultural developments, and is intended to shorten the delays between research and publication, while ensuring thorough peer review. Environmental Development also creates a forum for transnational communication, discussion and global action.
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