Lawn, Philip - In: International Journal of Green Economics 1 (2006) 1/2, pp. 121-138
The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) first emerged in the 1990s as a means of describing the changing relationship … between growth and environmental degradation. The EKC is based on the view that, as a nation's per capita real GDP rises over … wherewithal to obtain it increases. Should the EKC exist, the solution to environmental degradation is not a cessation to growth …