خلاصة:
In recent decades, information and communication technology (ICT) have created massive social and economic changes in all spheres. ICT impacts on the environment can be of different dimensions. So that it can be expected that the use of technology can have a positive effect on the environment or vice versa and can have a devastating impact on environmental sustainability. Therefore, this study attempts to assess effects of ICT on quality of the environment in Iran and 7 countries in the Persian Gulf area in the period 2005 to 2012, using panel data methods. The results show that telephone lines as ICT indicators have negative and significant effect, GDP per capita variable positive effect and concentration of population and GDP per capita squared had negative effects on quality of the environment. Also it should be noted, the obtained results have approved the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis.
ملخص الجهاز:
Assessing the Impact of ICT on the Quality of the Environment in Iran and the Countries of the Persian Gulf Arash Ketabforoush Badri1, Mohammad Taheri2 and Ramin Yahyavi3 Received: 2019/06/21 Revised: 2019/09/17 Accepted: 2019/11/15 ABSTRACT: In recent decades, information and communication technology (ICT) have created massive social and economic changes in all spheres.
Therefore, this study attempts to assess effects of ICT on quality of the environment in Iran and 7 countries in the Persian Gulf area in the period 2005 to 2012, using panel data methods.
Therefore, this study seeks to examine the impact of ICT on the environment in Iran and 7 countries in the Persian Gulf area in the period 2005 to 2012.
2. LITERATURE REVIEW Mei Ong and Kun Sek (2013) in a study have paid the impact of ICT on east Asian economic growth using panel data set from 1970-2008 in the three income groups: high, medium and low.
The role of these technologies in the development of societies that had spread as far as many specialists benefited from the information and technology related to it in order to explain differences in levels of development among countries and showed that ICT may provide a cheap and efficient way of data collection and evaluation tools that speed up the development process (Trug, 2007, 23).
With an overview of the positive effects, the question arises as to whether ICT provides the possibility of obtaining economic growth and environmental protection, and sustainable development?
For this purpose, this study aimed to investigate the effects of ICT on the environment by using panel data for Iran and 7 countries in the Persian Gulf area in the period 2005 to 2012.