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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Kuznets Curve"”.
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Economic growth and automobile dependence : is there a Kuznets curve for motorization?
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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Investigating environmental quality and economic growth interdependency: an environmental kuznets curve study of South Africa
… within the framework of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis, based on annual emissions and economic growth data from 1970 to 2018. The study examined the short and long run relationships of CO2, NO2, SO2 and PM2.5 emissions with economic growth, respectively, utilising a …
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Economic growth and land use change: implications for global biodiversity.
… 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 pattern. Also, a …
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Essays in applied econometrics
… to the Section 404. Chapter 3: Is There a Kuznets Curve for Brazil?: An Investigation Using Bayesian Model Averaging and Nonparametric Model Selection. Brazil has become one of the major emerging countries in the world, registering a promising development scenario. However, the income …
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Sustainable and Environmentally Responsible Future for Businesses and Society
… 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 climate resilience …
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On Impacts of Economic Growth
… 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
… 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
… relationship known as the Environmental Kuznets Curve. In response to critiques in the literature, extensive testing of the panel data econometric results illustrates the limitations of the pooled Environmental Kuznets Curve framework. To compensate for deficiencies in Cuban data, a GDP …
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Corporate environmental accountability in the Nigerian oil and gas industry: the case of gas flaring
… from three theories, namely, Environmental Kuznets Curve theory, Pollution Haven Hypothesis and Voluntary Disclosure Theory. Each of the five hypotheses is directly related to a specific objective, so that they can be the mechanisms for meeting the objectives. By virtue of its nature, …
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A STIRPAT model of sectoral CO2 emissions at the county scale
… 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 residential and …
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Modeling trade and environmental interactions
… allows for an explicit test of the environmental Kuznets curve.;The TEM is estimated with a Chinese provincial panel data set. The empirical results suggest that there may indeed have existed a tradeoff between economic growth and environmental protection in China's development. That is, increased …
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The Relationship Between Economic Growth and Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption Growth in Net Energy-Importing Emerging Economies
… curvilinear as postulated by the environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis.
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Mineral wealth versus resource curse - the stage is set
… which supports the literature regarding the Kuznets curve. The study also found that rising consumer price inflation significantly worsens average income inequality within an African country. In addition, a high degree of trade openness significantly reduces income inequality within an …
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Urbanization process models, internal rural-urban migration, and the role of institutions in China : three essays on urbanization and migration
… specific urban definition methods, I propose the Kuznets Curve for urban definition complexity, and the Hypothesis of the Unbalanced Urbanization Process. I test the hypothesis with a case study of five countries: the United States, Mexico, China, India, and Ethiopia. With the findings I call for …
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MEASURING EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY REGULATIONS IN U.S. HOUSEHOLDS
… 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 predicted value of …
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Three essays on economic growth and the environment: A comparative analysis of developed and developing countries
… environmental pollution within the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) framework. Aside from testing for EKCs for carbon dioxide (CO2) and particulate matter (PM10), it compares turning point incomes for these air pollutants for developed and developing countries. Because democracry is likely to …
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The demand, selection, and health impacts of household energy in Pakistan
… 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 in Pakistan. …
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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 …