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Urban issues and solutions in the context of sustainable development: A review of the literature

Grizans, Jurijs - 2009

Cities are at the heart of Europe. As four of every five European citizens live in urban areas, their quality of life and the quality of their environment depends upon how cities look and how they function. Cities are also places where business is done, investments are made and jobs are created....

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A Dynamic Model of the Environmental Kuznets Curve : Turning Point and Public Poliy

Egli, Hannes; Steger, Thomas M. - 2005

potential explana- tion of an N-shaped pollution-income relation. Finally, it is shown that the model is compatible with most …

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Beyond industrialization: New approaches to development strategy based on the service sector

Sheehan, Peter - 2008

well as in industry. Furthermore, China is actively trying to move from a strategy based on industrialization to one based …

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The Stability of the Adjusted and Unadjusted Environmental Kuznets Curve

Becchetti, Leonardo; Auci, Sabrina - 2005

In our paper, we test the stability of the unadjusted and adjusted Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). Our results provide evidence in favour of the significance of the adjusted EKC hypothesis in which the impact of per capita GDP on the intensity of CO2 emissions is evaluated conditionally to...

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The impact of trade and economic growth on the environment: revisiting the cross-country evidence

Abdulai, Awudu; Ramcke, Linda - 2009

degradation can be entirely confirmed. If anything, there is modest support for the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH). In addition …

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Development strategy, viability, and economic institutions: The case of China

Lin, Justin Yifu; Liu, Mingxing; Pan, Shiyuan; Zhang, … - 2006

intervention policies in east developed countries. It is argued that the distorted institutional structure in China and in many … China from 1950s to 1980s to show the co-existence and coevolution of government adoption of comparative advantage defying …

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Zum systematischen Stellenwert von Wirtschaftswachstum: Ziel, Mittel oder weder noch?

Hirata, Johannes - 2012

In der gegenwärtigen Debatte um die Ziele sozio-ökonomischer Entwicklung nimmt Wirtschaftswachstum eine zentrale, wenn … auch umstrittene Rolle ein. Während die eine Seite Wirtschaftswachstum als etwas Erstrebenswertes betrachtet, da sie es als … diese beiden Positionen kritisch und argumentiert, dass beide einen Fehler begehen, indem sie Wirtschaftswachstum zu einem …

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Can nature promote development? The role of sustainable tourism for economic growth

Freytag, Andreas; Vietze, Christoph - 2010

We analyze whether biodiversity is enhancing the development process in developing countries (DCs) via increasing tourism receipts in a trade based endogenous growth framework. The underlying assumption is that a rich biodiversity - only if used sustainably - provides a comparative advantage in...

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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence

Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 "tourism countries" within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....

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