Despite the burgeoning literature on the globalization-environmental degradation nexus, this area of empirical interest is still riddled with ambiguity. Thus, based on an extended Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence and Technology (STIRPAT) model, we re-investigate the effect of globalization on environmental degradation for 27 selected industrialized countries over the period 1991–2016. More specifically, we shed light into how overall globalization and its various components – economic, social and political globalization – affect environmental degradation. We advance existing literature by considering a measurement approach which disaggregates overall, economic, social and political globalization into their de facto and de jure aspects. Using the augmented mean group estimator, we find that overall and economic globalization reduce environmental degradation while social and political globalization do not exert any significant effect on globalization. With respect to the de facto and de jure aspects, we observe that, while only de facto economic globalization mitigates environmental degradation, de jure overall, economic and social globalization also dampen environmental degradation. We provide some policy implications in the end.

尽管关于全球化与环境退化关系的文献不断增多，但这一经验性领域仍然充满了歧义。因此，基于扩展的回归对人口，富裕度和技术的随机影响（STIRPAT）模型，我们对1991-2016年间全球化对27个选定的工业化国家的环境退化的影响进行了重新调查。更具体地说，我们阐明了整体全球化及其各个组成部分（经济，社会和政治全球化）如何影响环境恶化。我们通过考虑一种测量方法来推进现有文献，该方法将整体，经济，社会和政治全球化分解为事实和法律上的事实方面。使用增强均值群体估计量，我们发现总体和经济全球化减少了环境退化，而社会和政治全球化对全球化没有任何重大影响。关于事实和法律方面，我们观察到，虽然只有事实上的经济全球化才能缓解环境恶化，但从法律上来说，总体而言，经济和社会全球化也可以缓解环境恶化。最后，我们提供了一些政策含义。