Decomposing the impact of population growth on environmental deterioration

Oskar Gans and Frank Jöst

The IPAT-model developed by Ehrlich and Holdren is widespread in ecological economics in order to quantify the impact of population growth on environmental deterioration. We comment on this model and extensions proposed by several authors from a theoretical and empirical point of view.

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Year of publication:	September 2005
Authors:	Gans, Oskar ; Jöst, Frank
Publisher:	Heidelberg : University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
Subject:	environmental deterioration \| population growth \| decomposition analysis \| Umweltbelastung \| Pollution \| Bevölkerungswachstum \| Population growth \| Umweltökonomik \| Environmental economics \| Dekompositionsverfahren \| Decomposition method \| Theorie \| Theory

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 14 Seiten)
Series:	Discussion paper series / University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics. - Heidelberg : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2217357-2. - Vol. no. 422
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Amtsdruckschrift ; Government document ; Statistik ; Statistics ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/127242 [Handle]
Classification:	Q50 - Environmental Economics. General ; J19 - Demographic Economics. Other
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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