Costantini, Valeria; Martini, Chiara - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 10 (2010) 1/2, pp. 84-122
Many empirical studies have tried to analyse the causal relations between economic growth and environmental degradation by using the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). Despite the huge diffusion of EKC studies, this model has been criticised for incompleteness in a sustainable development...