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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Environmental Kuznets Curve"”.
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Investigating environmental quality and economic growth interdependency: an environmental kuznets curve study of South Africa
Economic growth at the expense of environmental quality has become an increasingly important policy concern since 2015, with the establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris. This study investigated the interdependency …
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Sustainable and Environmentally Responsible Future for Businesses and Society
… these aspects were tested in isolation using Environmental Kuznets Curve, normative governance debates or resource curse frameworks. This study integrates them into a cohesive model of responsible management. The findings suggest that financial and digital innovation are potent drivers of …
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On Impacts of Economic Growth
… ladder are far more likely to experience environmental Kuznets curve-type downturns in carbon dioxide emissions. The results have important implications for actors who wish to encourage political change, and for climate change mitigation action.
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On Impacts of Economic Growth
… ladder are far more likely to experience environmental Kuznets curve-type downturns in carbon dioxide emissions. The results have important implications for actors who wish to encourage political change, and for climate change mitigation action.
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Essays on Environmental Conditions in Cuba
<p>Cuban environmental conditions have not attracted the attention received by otherareas of Cuba's economic performance. Chapter 1 examines selected ambient air pollutants and the use of fossil fuels in Cuba, indicators for which there are relatively better available data, as of the “Special …
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Corporate environmental accountability in the Nigerian oil and gas industry: the case of gas flaring
… waste of valuable energy resource, the damaging, environmental impact of gas flaring, along with the intense physical nature of the practice, is among the major causes of environmental-accountability-triggered conflict especially in the Niger Delta region of the country. With this in mind, this …
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A STIRPAT model of sectoral CO2 emissions at the county scale
… with CO2 emissions with an attainable Environmental Kuznets Curve for the residential sector and total CO2 emissions. Climate, including average winter and summer season temperature, has a positive relationship with total CO2 emissions, although it has a negative relationship with the …
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Modeling trade and environmental interactions
… used not only to analyze the trade impact of an environmental policy and the environmental impact of trade, but also to identify the sources of those influences. In addition, the nonlinear specification of the relationship between emissions and economic scales allows for an explicit test of the …
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The Relationship Between Economic Growth and Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption Growth in Net Energy-Importing Emerging Economies
… not curvilinear as postulated by the environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis.
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Economic growth and land use change: implications for global biodiversity.
… use change and biodiversity loss conform to an environmental Kuznets curve, a relationship in which certain environmental impacts increase then decrease with economic growth. The study draws on the experience of economic structural change to show that agricultural land use may follow this …
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MEASURING EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY REGULATIONS IN U.S. HOUSEHOLDS
… U.S. Chapter 4 uses meta-analysis to explore the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) relationship for CO2 and several other environmental quality measures. Results indicate the presence of an EKC-type relationship for CO2 and other environmental quality measures in relative terms. However, the …
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Three essays on economic growth and the environment: A comparative analysis of developed and developing countries
… It is motivated by the facts that (i) global environmental change and environmental degradation are major policy concerns among world leaders, policymakers and scholars due to their deleterious consequences for human well-being, and (ii) because everyone ultimately wants to be happy, world …
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The demand, selection, and health impacts of household energy in Pakistan
… practical aspects of countries moving along the Environmental Kuznets Curve, and suggest that in order to reduce IAP, direct policy intervention will be required. The third study further explores household energy use by estimating the own and cross-price elasticities of household energy sources …
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Sustainability at multiple scales: interactions between environment, economic and social indicators at the country, city and manufacturing facility scale
The simplicity of the Environmental Kuznets (EKC) curve concept motivated this study of the relationships between environmental, economic and social indicators at the country, city/regional and manufacturing facility scale. The study builds on almost 20 years of research on the EKC, which has shown …
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Energy Transitions, Economic Growth and Structural Change: Portugal in a Long-run Comparative Perspective
This book analyses, in an international comparative context, Portugal´s energy transition from organic sources to fossil fuels in the period 1856-2006. It investigates the role that energy played in the industrialization of the country and how the relationship between energy and economic growth …