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(global warming, loss of animal and plant species, and pollution of water bodies) are correlated with their well-being in a …
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environmental inequality related to exposure to air pollution (PM2.5), as well as climate inequality linked to thermal discomfort …
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collective effects on environmental quality in Africa, drawing on two decades of data from twenty African countries. It situates …
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pollution. This article describes the recent trends in air and water quality, with a focus on the five years since China … declared a “war on pollution” in 2014. It summarizes the emerging literature that has taken advantage of accompanying … pollution, and understand their social, economic, and health consequences …
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Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...
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The objective of this paper is to establish whether the estimated relationship between environmental degradation and per capita income corroborates the inverted U-shape hypothesis as exemplified by the Environmental Kuznets curves (EKCs) in selected ECOWAS countries. Considering two variants of...
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countries. In particular, the relationship between economic growth and air pollution in Africa remains largely unexplored. In … environmental pollution. Scholars have estimated turning point incomes for various pollutants within and across countries. However … countries. Further, our examination of the effect of democracy on air pollution reveals an insignificant effect for CO2 for both …
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indicates that strengthening a country's institutions decreases its pollution through relocating dirty industries abroad, though … increases pollution in other countries. Fifth, cross-country differences in the composition of output between clean and dirty … countries have relatively high pollution levels …
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, most subsequent applications focused on pollution emissions. Yet, previous research suggests that it is more likely that …, convergence, and time related factors in explaining changes in PM2.5 pollution in a global panel of 158 countries between 1990 and …
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across developing Asia will need to address towards 2030: water management, air pollution, deforestation and land degradation …
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