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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
This article revisits the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis. Based on data for seven pollutants in 29 Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2010, we conducted statistical tests on the coefficients of the critical variables (polynomial income-related terms) by following the logic of...
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Is conceptual vagueness an asset? Arguments from philosophy of science applied to the concept of resilience
Strunz, Sebastian - In: Ecological Economics 76 (2012) C, pp. 112-118
arguments in favor and against conceptual vagueness. While traditional philosophy of science emphasizes precision and conceptual … problem-solving. Reviewing this discussion, I argue that a trade-off between vagueness and precision exists, which is to be … others it depends on precision. Assessing the specific example of “resilience thinking” in detail, I propose a restructuring …
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A parsimonious, stacked latent-class methodology for predicting behavioral heterogeneity in terms of life-constraint heterogeneity
Morey, Edward; Thiene, Mara - In: Ecological Economics 74 (2012) C, pp. 130-144
be explained, and predicted, by variation in life constraints such as kids, BMI (body-mass index) fitness, skill, and …
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