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Environmental justice and air pollution: A case study on Italian provinces

Germani, Anna Rita; Morone, Piergiuseppe; Testa, Giuseppina - In: Ecological Economics 106 (2014) C, pp. 69-82

This paper provides an empirical analysis on the relationship between income, demographic characteristics and concentrations of air industrial pollutants within the Italian provinces. Two general conclusions can be drawn from the empirical results. First, the estimates obtained are consistent...

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Pollution havens and the trade in toxic chemicals: Evidence from U.S. trade flows

Tang, John P. - In: Ecological Economics 112 (2015) C, pp. 150-160

National registries of toxic chemical emissions and facilities are increasingly used to raise public awareness of potential health hazards in local areas, but an unintended consequence may be the offshoring of production to less regulated countries. Using disaggregated U.S. trade data, this...

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Under- and over-use of pesticides: An international analysis

Ghimire, Narishwar; Woodward, Richard T. - In: Ecological Economics 89 (2013) C, pp. 73-81

This paper analyzes the economic, political and environmental factors that contribute to the consumption and under- or over-use of pesticides. Using unbalanced panel data analysis, we study how pesticide over- or under-use varies for countries with different per capita Gross Domestic Product...

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Is the Environmental Kuznets Curve for deforestation a threatened theory? A meta-analysis of the literature

Choumert, Johanna; Combes Motel, Pascale; Dakpo, Hervé K. - In: Ecological Economics 90 (2013) C, pp. 19-28

and deforestation is still in question. This paper presents a meta-analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) studies … for deforestation. Using 69 studies, offering 547 estimations, we shed light on why EKC results differ. We investigate the … control variables) on the probability of finding an EKC. After a phase of work corroborating the EKC, we find a turning point …

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Economic structure, development policy and environmental quality: An empirical analysis of environmental Kuznets curves with Chinese municipal data

He, Jie; Wang, Hua - In: Ecological Economics 76 (2012) C, pp. 49-59

In many cases, the relationship between environmental pollution and economic development can be depicted by an inverted U-shaped curve, or an environmental Kuznets curve, where pollution initially increases with income and then decreases after a certain level of income has been reached. However,...

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Dynamic misspecification in the environmental Kuznets curve: Evidence from CO2 and SO2 emissions in the United Kingdom

Fosten, Jack; Morley, Bruce; Taylor, Tim - In: Ecological Economics 76 (2012) C, pp. 25-33

(EKC) relationship. We use the non-linear threshold cointegration and error correction methodology and a long dataset … the long-run EKC is corrected in an asymmetric fashion. This may be due to the historical pressure of environmental …

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REDD and forest transition: Tunneling through the environmental Kuznets curve

Culas, Richard J. - In: Ecological Economics 79 (2012) C, pp. 44-51

analyzed for the REDD policy within the framework of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for deforestation. The EKC models are … countries, covering the period 1970–1994, provides evidence that an inverted U-shaped EKC fits for Latin America and Africa …, while a U-shaped EKC applies to Asia. The results also indicate that strengthening agricultural and forestry sector policies …

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Dynamite in the EKC tunnel? Inconsistencies in resource stock analysis under the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis

Mills Busa, Julianne H. - In: Ecological Economics 94 (2013) C, pp. 116-126

conservation across two groups of countries. Additionally, through explicit comparison with two previous EKC studies, I enable an … illustration of precisely how EKC results are affected by the incorporation of consumption and highlight persistent problems with … EKC analyses. Despite general linear modeling results showing that wealthy countries drive deforestation in poorer …

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Environmental poverty, a decomposed environmental Kuznets curve, and alternatives: Sustainability lessons from China

Liu, Lee - In: Ecological Economics 73 (2012) C, pp. 86-92

curve (EKC) demonstrates that places (such as countries, counties, or cities) following the “grow first, clean up later …” approach (or the first half of the EKC) may obtain economic gains accompanied by extreme environmental sacrifice, excessive …

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The fragility of the Environmental Kuznets Curve: Revisiting the hypothesis with Chinese data via an “Extreme Bound Analysis”

Yang, Haisheng; He, Jie; Chen, Shaoling - In: Ecological Economics 109 (2015) C, pp. 41-58

that obtain the “accepted” forms of the EKC (inverted-U or N forms). Our test reveals that the EKC hypothesis cannot be …

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