THE PERCEIVED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES, ECO-INNOVATION, ECONOMIC GROWTH AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA
研究了中国1981至2020年间太阳能和水电等可持续能源技术、生态创新及经济增长对社会可持续性的影响，发现这些因素与社会可持续性显著相关，为政策制定者提供了参考。
Social sustainability is a global necessity because of environmental and economic uncertainty. This issue needs the foremost solution, and for this purpose, researchers’ and policymakers’ emphasis is required. Thereby, the present paper investigates sustainable energy technologies such as solar and hydroelectric, eco-innovation and EG and their impact on social sustainability in China. The study also used industrialization and inflation as the control variables in the time span of 1981 to 2020. The present study also applied the Dynamic Auto-regressive Distributed Lags (DARDL) model to evaluate the association between the outlined variables. The results indicated that sustainable energy technologies such as solar and hydroelectric, eco-innovation, economic growth, industrialization and inflation are significantly associated with social sustainability in China. The present paper offers standard policies to regulators in making regulations related to maintaining social sustainability by using effective sustainable energy technologies and eco-innovation.