This paper examines two environmental impacts for which population has a substantial demonstrated influence: transport carbon emissions and residential electricity consumption. It takes as its starting point the STIRPAT framework and disaggregates population into four key age groups: 20-34,...

This paper analyzes urban population's and affluence's (GDP per capita's) influence on environmental impact in developed and developing countries by taking as its starting point the STIRPAT framework. In addition to considering environmental impacts particularly influenced by population and...

This paper considers a recently developed consumption-based carbon emissions database from which emissions calculations are made based on the domestic use of fossil fuels plus the embodied emissions from imports minus exports, to test directly for the importance of trade in national emissions....

We focus on three environmental impacts particularly influenced by population age-structure — carbon emissions from transport and residential energy and electricity consumption — as well as aggregate carbon emissions for a panel of developed countries, and take as our starting point the...

An inverted-U relationship between GDP per capita and three urban transport-related emissions is tested (using data from 84 cities). Per capita urban transport-related emissions of CO, VHC, and NOx increase and then decline at observed income levels — a result driven by a similar inverted-U...

This paper considers the influence of uncertainty with respect to GDP and population — both total and age structure — on long-run environmental impact projections. The paper takes as its starting point a simple, transparent, published model that is based on the stochastic version of the IPAT...