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Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)
  • Author : Burcu Özcan
  • Release Date : 13 May 2019
  • Publisher : Academic Press
  • Genre : Business & Economics
  • Pages : 162
  • ISBN 13 : 9780128167960
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Book excerpt: Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC): A Manual provides a comprehensive summary of the EKC, summarizing work on this economic tool that can analyze environmental pollution problems. By enabling users to reconcile environmental and economic development policies, Environmental Kuznets Curve studies lend themselves to the investigation of the energy-growth and finance-energy nexus. The book obviates a dependence on outmoded tools, such as carrying capacity, externalities, ecosystem valuation and cost benefit analysis, while also encouraging flexible approaches to a variety of challenges. Provides a comprehensive summary of EKC studies, including advances in econometrics, literature reviews and historical perspectives Outlines solutions to common problems in applying EKC techniques by reviewing major case studies Explores frequently-utilized proxies for environmental quality

Environmental Kuznets Curve EKC

Environmental Kuznets Curve EKC

Author : Burcu Özcan,Ilhan Öztürk
Publisher : Academic Press
Genre : Business & Economics
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Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC): A Manual provides a comprehensive summary of the EKC, summarizing work on this economic tool that can analyze environmental pollution problems. By enabling users to reconcile environmental and economic development policies, Environmental Kuznets Curve studies lend themselves to the investigation of the energy-growth and finance-energy nexus. ...

Environmental Kuznets Curve EKC

Environmental Kuznets Curve EKC

Author : Burcu Ozcan,Ilhan Ozturk
Publisher : Academic Press
Genre : Business & Economics
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Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC): A Manual provides a comprehensive summary of the EKC, summarizing work on this economic tool that can analyze environmental pollution problems. By enabling users to reconcile environmental and economic development policies, Environmental Kuznets Curve studies lend themselves to the investigation of the energy-growth and finance-energy nexus. ...

Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis and Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis and Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Author : Katsuhisa Uchiyama
Publisher : Springer
Genre : Business & Economics
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This book investigates the relationship between environmental degradation and income, focusing on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from around the world, to explore the possibility of sustainable development under global warming. Although many researchers have tackled this problem by estimating the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), unlike the approach to sulfur dioxide ...

Economic Growth and the Environment

Economic Growth and the Environment

Author : Sander M. de Bruyn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Genre : Business & Economics
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Is economic growth good for the environment? A number of economists have claimed that economic growth can benefit the environment, recruiting political support and finance for environmental policy measures. This view has received increasing support since the early 1990s from empirical evidence that has challenged the traditional environmentalist's belief that ...

Companion to Environmental Studies

Companion to Environmental Studies

Author : Noel Castree,Mike Hulme,James D. Proctor
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Nature
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Companion to Environmental Studies presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, debates, concepts, approaches and questions that together define environmental studies today. The intellectually wide-ranging volume covers approaches in environmental science all the way through to humanistic and post-natural perspectives on the biophysical world. Though many academic ...

Green Cities

Green Cities

Author : Matthew E. Kahn
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Genre : Political Science
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What is a green city? What does it mean to say that San Francisco or Vancouver is more "green" than Houston or Beijing? When does urban growth lower environmental quality, and when does it yield environmental gains? How can cities deal with the environmental challenges posed by growth? These are ...

Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation in Canada

Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation in Canada

Author : Da-Hae Chong
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Economic development
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis postulates an inverted U-shaped relationship between measures of environmental degradation and per capita income. This paper empirically tests the validity of the EKC hypothesis in Canada for per capita emissions of green house gases (GHG), CO2, NOX, SOX, CO, and total particulate matter (TPM) ...

Natural Resources and Economic Development

Natural Resources and Economic Development

Author : Edward B. Barbier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Genre : Business & Economics
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Natural Resources and Economic Development, first published in 2005, explores a key paradox: why is natural resource exploitation not yielding greater benefits to the poor economies of Africa, Asia and Latin America? Part I examines this paradox both through a historical review of resource use and development and through examining current ...

An Empirical Examination of Environmental Kuznets Curve EKC in West Africa

An Empirical Examination of Environmental Kuznets Curve EKC in West Africa

Author : Simisola Oshin
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Uncategorized
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This study aims to examine the relationship between income and environmental degradation in West Africa and ascertain the validity of EKC hypothesis in the region. The study adopted a panel data approach for fifteen West Africa countries for the period 1980-2012. The available results from our estimation procedure confirmed the ...

Handbook on Trade and the Environment

Handbook on Trade and the Environment

Author : Kevin Gallagher
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Genre : Political Science
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Handbook on Trade and the Environment is a good source for those looking for a better understanding of political issues, of legal debates, and of the state of discussion between government, industry, NGO, and private sector groups on topics that are not often treated elsewhere. Judith M. Dean, World Trade ...