This study examines the impacts of income, energy consumption and population growth on CO2 emissions by employing an annual time series data for the period 1970-2012 for India, Indonesia, China, and Brazil. The study used the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds test approach considering...

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of natural resources in economic growth by taking evidence from Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach - Total five variables are used in this study, i.e. GDP, population density, water renewable resources, deforestation and the...

Der Mensch hat sich die Erde untertan gemacht – und sie stöhnt unter der Last seiner Herrschaft. In den reichen Teilen der Welt verbrauchen wir zu viele Rohstoffe, in den armen Teilen leben zu viele Menschen im Elend. Wege aus dieser doppelten Überbevölkerung weist der Demografie-Experte...

"Does the environment pose limits to human population size and wellbeing? Or does human intelligence and resourcefulness ensure that environmental limits will be expanded and respected? Is a growing population a (or even the) key driver of resource depletion and environmental degradation? How...