Lawn, Philip - In: International Journal of Green Economics 1 (2006) 1/2, pp. 121-138
wherewithal to obtain it increases. Should the EKC exist, the solution to environmental degradation is not a cessation to growth …. Rather, it is the continued growth of a nation's real GDP. A theoretical model previously developed to derive the EKC is … between growth and environmental degradation. The EKC is based on the view that, as a nation's per capita real GDP rises over …