TÜRKİYE'DE KİRLİLİK HALE HİPOTEZİ VE EKONOMİK BÜYÜME, EKONOMİK KÜRESELLEŞME VE EKOLOJİK AYAK İZİ BAĞLANTISI: KRLS'DEN KANITLAR.

The environmental degradation process has accelerated globally with the industrial revolution and the developments that threatened environmental sustainability afterwards. The fact that the environmental degradation process is felt worldwide, especially with global warming and climate change, has increased the number of studies on the determinants of environmental degradation. In this study, the impact of foreign direct investments, economic growth, and economic globalization on the environment and the validity of the pollution halo hypothesis are investigated for Turkey. For this purpose, analyses are carried out with the KRLS approach, which is a machine learning method, using annual data between 1970 and 2018. As a result of the analyses, it has been determined that (i) foreign direct investments have a negative (positive) impact on the ecological footprint (environmental quality) and therefore the pollution halo hypothesis is valid; (ii) economic growth has a positive (negative) impact on the ecological footprint (environmental quality); and (iii) economic globalization has a negative (positive) impact on the ecological footprint (environmental quality). Based on these results, we recommend policymakers to develop policies that can attract more foreign direct investments to Turkey and provide economic globalization, as both have positive effects on the environment, and follow more environmentally friendly policies in the process of increasing economic growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]