Caviglia-Harris, Jill L.; Chambers, Dustin; Kahn, James R. - In: Ecological Economics 68 (2009) 4, pp. 1149-1159
Unlike most Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) studies which focus on narrow measures of pollution as proxies for environmental quality, we test the validity of the EKC using the Ecological Footprint (EF), a more comprehensive measure of environmental degradation. We find no empirical evidence of...