The paper investigates the non-linear causality from energy consumption and economic growth to ecological footprint for the case of Turkey by employing ARDL Models and ECM-Based Granger Causality over the period from 1961 to 2016. The major contribution of the article to the literature is that (i) the data period of the empirical analysis of the study is much longer than the one of the other studies for the case of Turkey; (ii) ecological footprint, which has been rarely used in the studies for the same case is taken as a sophisticated proxy of environmental degradation; (iii) it is found that the sophisticated key term ‘awareness’ needs much more multidisciplinary attention and wider mind maps as the causality from energy consumption to ecological footprint has U-shape; (iv) the non-linear causality is investigated and the complicated puzzle is discussed in the framework of a wide and coherent mind map.

本文采用1961-2016年间的ARDL模型和基于ECM的Granger因果关系，研究了土耳其从能源消耗，经济增长到生态足迹的非线性因果关系。本文对文献的主要贡献是（i）该研究的实证分析的数据周期比土耳其的另一项研究要长得多；（ii）在同一案例中很少使用的生态足迹被视为环境退化的一个复杂替代；（iii）发现，复杂的关键术语“意识”需要更多的跨学科关注和更广泛的思维导图，因为从能耗到生态足迹的因果关系呈U形；