paper ends with a link between the theory and a hot empirical issue — the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis. …

-shaped. This paper utilises a more global representative sample, than previous EKC studies, and re-evaluates the environmental … Kuznets curve (EKC) of sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, forestry, mineral depletion, total suspended …

explaining the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), the purported inverted U-curve relationship between environmental degradation … ageing contributes to an explanation of the EKC via willingness to pay. The main results can be summarised as follows. In … three EKC specifications for air pollutants, we find that the estimated coefficients for population ageing are positive and …

of China by empirically estimating environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) models using provincial-level panel data from 1985 … to 2005. The results show that there exists an inverted-U shaped relationship as hypothesized by the EKC model between …

The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis implies that a bell shaped relationship between income and pollution … CO<SUB align="right">2</SUB> emissions in the optimal path but EKC decomposition factors are affected by variations of …