Environmental Quality under Pressure: The Role of Natural Disasters, Migration, Tourism, and Energy Use in South Asia's Ecological Resilience

Abstract

The capacity of environment quality to withstand and recover from the natural disaster is increasingly compromised. On the other hand increasing population demands the increase in migration, tourism, energy use and economic growth can change pattern of environmental quality. This study investigates the integrated long term and short term impact of natural disaster, migration, tourism, renewable energy use and economic growth on environmental quality in south Asia for the period of 2000-2022. Finding reveals that in long run natural disaster significantly increases the environmental degradation, while migration and tourism are encouraged as both of these variables improve the environmental quality. The renewable energy use and economic growth exerts the negative influence, improving the environmental degradation.in contrast to long term migration and tourism exerts the negative impact on environmental quality while the renewable energy use and economic growth positively influence the environmental quality in shout term. Natural disaster does not immediately influence the environmental quality. This analysis suggests the complex behavior of the factors affecting the environmental quality, convincing the nuanced policy for balanced economic growth with environment sustainability in south Asia