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Environmental Kuznets Curves for Air Pollution in African and Developed Countries : Exploring Turning Point Incomes and the Role of Democracy

Sulemana, Iddisah - 2016

The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis advances an inverted U-shaped relationship between economic growth and environmental pollution. Scholars have estimated turning point incomes for various pollutants within and across countries. However, the majority of these studies were conducted...

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Energy and the Environment in Economic History

Clay, Karen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Both energy and the environment are inputs into production, influencing the economy and the overall welfare of the population. While the economy itself has been a central focus of economic history from its inception, energy and the environment have received more limited attention. On the energy...

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How does heterogeneous green technology innovation affect air quality and economic development in Chinese cities? : spatial and nonlinear perspective analysis

Zhang, Zhongqingyang; Zhou, Zhongbao; Zeng, Zhijian; … - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 8 (2023) 4, pp. 1-14

This study considers spatial and nonlinear perspectives to examine the heterogeneous role of green technology innovation in the economic development and air quality of Chinese cities. We find that green inventive technology innovation benefits economic development and air quality improvement,...

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The impact of population, affluence, technology, and urbanization on CO2 emissions across income groups

Sorge, Lars; Neumann, Anne - 2019

This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions within the STIRPAT framework over the period 1971 to … results robustly show an inverted N-shaped relationship between urbanization and CO2 emissions in the long-term associated … urbanization tend to reduce CO2 emissions in the long-term. The estimated turning point for the urbanization ratio after which CO2 …

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