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Neo-humanism and COVID-19: opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021

A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...

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Green cities? : urbanization, trade and the environment

Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - 2015

This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...

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City size, pollution and emission policies

Pflüger, Michael - 2018

governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two … key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to regulate environmental pollution is implemented, cities chosen by local … governments are never too large. They are too small if pollution is purely global, but at the optimal size, if pollution is purely …

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We already live in a degrowth world, and we do not like it

Naudé, Wim - 2023

The Degrowth Movement calls for "degrowth" - a reduction in GDP in advanced economies - to avert an ecological crisis. This paper argues that the Degrowth Movement misses that the West is already in a state resembling degrowth - a Great Stagnation. This state of degrowth and its correlates,...

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A review of the circular economy and its implementation

Heshmati, Almas - 2015

Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...

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Economic growth and pollutant emissions : new panel evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean countries

Ben Abdeljelil, Mouna; Rault, Christophe; Belaîd, Fateh - 2023

This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...

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Migration, openness and the global preconditions of "smart development"

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2011

In this article, we present a first empirical reflection on 'smart development', its measurement, possible 'drivers' and 'bottlenecks'. We first provide cross-national data on how much ecological footprint is used in the nations of the world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy,...

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Distributional consequences of becoming climate-neutral

Hochmuth, Philipp; Krusell, Per; Mitman, Kurt - 2025

The EU has embarked on an ambitious path toward climate neutrality. How difficult will this transition be for the population as a whole and different subsets of consumers? This paper investigates this question using a dynamic general equilibrium model that captures a key feature of energy...

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What matters for environmental quality in the Next-11 countries : economic growth or income inequality?

Padhan, Hemachandra; Haouas, Ilham; Sahoo, Bhagaban; … - 2018

This study uses 1971-2013 panel data to explore the implications of growth, wealth disparities and energy consumption on carbon emissions in a sample of Next-Eleven (N-11) countries. It uses modern econometric techniques to highlight a long-run interplay between selected variables in the carbon...

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Environment vs. economic growth : do environmental preferences translate into support for Green parties?

Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Popova, Olga - 2024

This paper contributes to a better understanding of the drivers of electoral support for Green parties and the environmental actions they promote, which is key to ensuring the long-term feasibility of environmental policies. We examine whether individual environmental preferences translate into...

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