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Lessons from the Southern enlargement of the EU for the environmental dimensions of Eastern enlargement in particular for Poland

Kuik, Onno J.; Oosterhuis, Frans H. - 2001

This paper analyses the environmental dimensions the past accession of Greece, Portugal and Spain to the EU in order to …

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European forests and carbon sequestration services: an economic assessment of climate change impacts

Ding, Helen; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Teelucksingh, Sonja S. - 2010

This paper reports an original economic valuation of the impact of climate change on the provision of forest regulating services in Europe. To the authors' knowledge the current paper represents the first systematic attempt to estimate human well-being losses with respect to changes in...

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Analysis and Evaluation of Ecosystem Resilience: An Economic Perspective

Vergano, Lucia; Nunes, Paulo A.L.D. - 2006

This paper focuses on the analyses and evaluation of resilience anchored in an economic perspective. Resilience, as well as most of the benefits provided by ecosystems, is not priced on current markets. However, this does not mean that resilience is of no value for humans. On the contrary, the...

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Structural change and environmental Kuznets curves

Horbach, Jens - 2002

The Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis (EKC) postulates an inverted u-shaped curve between important pollutants and per capita GDP analogous to the relationship between in-come inequality and income per capita which has been analysed by Kuznets in 1955. The arti-cle focuses on an empirical...

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Environmental security and migration: The role of environmental factors as determinants of migration flows in Pakistan

Goria, Alessandra - 1998

This paper investigates the linkages between the environment, income and migration, exploring the role that … environmental factors play in inducing migration within a rural developing economy. The environment has a deep economic value …, representing a source of living for most developing countries: exogenous shocks on the environment, determined for instance by …

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Desperately Seeking (Environmental) Kuznets

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro - 1999

The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country's economic growth and the quantity of various pollutants produced has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence in favor of an inverted-U...

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Richer and cleaner? A study on carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro - 1999

The Climate Change debate has drawn attention to the problem of greenhouse gases emissions into the atmosphere. One of the most important issues in the policy debate is the role that should be played by developing countries in joining the commitment of developed countries to reduce GHG...

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Income inequality and the environmental Kuznets curve

Borghesi, Simone - 2000

This study explores the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and income inequality within the framework of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. To investigate this issue, we examine how inequality affects carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their relationship with...

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Desperately seeking (environmental) Kuznets: A new look at the evidence

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro; Pauli, Francesco - 2001

The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country economic growth and the quantity of pollutants produced in the process has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence pointing to an inverted-U...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608829

Total Factor Productivity Growth and the Environment: A Case for Green Growth Accounting

Xepapadeas, Anastasios; Tzouvelekas, E.; Vouvaki, D. - 2007

We examine whether the use of the environment, proxied by CO2 emissions, as a factor of production contributes, in … with environment as a factor of production which is unpaid in the absence of environmental policy is developed. Using data … environment as a not fully compensated factor of production. Our results point towards the need for developing a concept of Green …

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