growth and the quantity of various pollutants produced has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers …

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a dynamic model of endogenous urban growth with two sectors of … equilibrium, compared to the efficient urbanization path, if economic growth implies increasing aggregate emissions. If, on the … other hand, production becomes cleaner over time (`quality growth') the urbanization path approximates the efficient outcome …

Since its first inception in the debate on the relationship between environment and growth in 1992, the Environmental …