ASSESSING THE ROLE OF AGRICULTURE AND ENERGY USE ON ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: EVIDENCE FROM RALS COINTEGRATION TECHNIQUE

This study is relevant towards determining the ability of Turkey in mitigating environmental degradation which one major areas concern. Therefore, we aimed to examine linkage among agriculture, energy use, economic performance and FDI with sustainability. To this end, ecological footprint has been considered as a more comprehensive reliable indicator measure level degradation. relationship investigated different approaches such Residual Augmented Least Squares Dickey -Fuller (RALS-ADF), Engle Granger (RALS-EG) leveraged bootstrap causality test for period from 1970 2017. The RALS procedure was utilized analyze stationarity each variable their cointegration relationship. findings confirmed that all variables have positive statistically significant effect on Turkey. results showed there are bidirectional causal relationships sustainability agriculture sector well performance. Moreover, unidirectional runs use sector. other running use. Also, our inverted U-shaped EKC hypothesis provide insights policymakers consider surest way sustainability.Keywords: Agriculture, FDI, Energy consumption, cointegration, TurkeyJEL Classifications: Q43. F64. C32DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.11842