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development, while the citizens' responses to the inquiry have revealed a strong focus on the quality of everyday life in their … of local characteristics and living environment. The authors' starting point is related to the standard utility theory … living environment and public facilities are crucial elements explaining individual well-being. To do this, we consider three …
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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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for the social world. Correspondingly, a problem of responsibility emerges in nature and the environment from the …
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of politics. Which responsibilities for our natural environment are to be assigned to politics, which to the individual …
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Many developing countries possess comparative advantage both in natural resources and in labor-intensive industries, and experience both industrial pollution and natural resource degradation. We present a model that incorporates these stylized facts together with key spatial features and...
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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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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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