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The impact of trade and economic growth on the environment: revisiting the cross-country evidence
Abdulai, Awudu; Ramcke, Linda - 2009
degradation can be entirely confirmed. If anything, there is modest support for the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH). In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263550
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The Stability of the Adjusted and Unadjusted Environmental Kuznets Curve
Becchetti, Leonardo; Auci, Sabrina - 2005
In our paper, we test the stability of the unadjusted and adjusted Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). Our results provide evidence in favour of the significance of the adjusted EKC hypothesis in which the impact of per capita GDP on the intensity of CO2 emissions is evaluated conditionally to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312303
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What drives biodiversity?: an empirical assessment of the relation between biodiversity and the economy
Freytag, Andreas; Vietze, Christoph; Völkl, Wolfgang - 2009
The environmental discussion is increasingly extended to the question of how to preserve biodiversity. As sensible regulation of biodiversity utilization uses politically set incentive schemes, it is required to discus the monetary value of biodiversity. Consequently, the relation between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266684
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Factoring the environmental Kuznets curve Evidence from Norway
Bruvoll, Annegrete; Medin, Hege - 2000
The environmental Kuznets curve theory suggests that economic growth may reduce environmental problems. In this article, we analyze the changes in environmentally damaging emissions to air in Norway from 1980 to 1996. In order to reveal the factors which decrease the emissions per produced unit,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968045
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Sustainable economic development and the environment: Theory and evidence
Bertinelli, Luisito; Strobl, Eric; Zou, Benteng - 2005
The relationship between growth and pollution is studied through a vintage capital model, where new technology is more … cases of sustainable development, one in which pollution falls and another in which it stabilizes, or a catastrophic outcome … the pollution-output relationship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272619
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Economic growth and biodiversity: An overview. Conservation policies in Africa
Iritié, Bi Goli Jean Jacques - In: Journal of Sustainable Development 8 (2015) 2, pp. 196-208
From the economic literature on the relationship between economic growth and environment pioneered by Grossman and Krueger (1991) and Shafik and Bandyopadhyay (1992) we first conduct a theoretical and critical reflection on the existence of a Kuznets curve for biodiversity. It appears that...
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Economic growth and emissions: Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis for ECOWAS countries
Omotor, Douglason Godwin - In: West African Journal of Monetary and Economic Integration 17 (2017) 2, pp. 25-56
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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El efecto del crecimiento económico en la degradación ambiental: Una aproximación empírica mediante el modelo de la Curva de Kuznets Ambiental
Oliva Sandoval, Eduardo Rolando - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797272
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Cardiovascular Disease Mortality and Non-Particulate Air Pollution: Evidence from the 20th Century
Forshaw, Rachel; Kharadi, Natalya; McLaughlin, Eoin - 2023
Air pollution is a global public health threat, responsible for more deaths annually than conventional lifestyle risk … factors. While the link between particulate pollution and cardiovascular disease is well-established, evidence for gaseous … for more research on the effects of air pollution in developing nations. We highlight a complex trade-off: greater SO2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442543
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Environment, Human Development and Economic Growth
Costantini, Valeria; Monni, Salvatore - 2006
Over the last few years, environmental issues have entered into policy design, particularly development and growth policies. Natural resources are considered necessary production inputs and environmental quality is considered a welfare determinant. The integration of environmental issues into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312341