1. Economic growth and the environment: an introduction -- I: Theories and concepts -- 2. The limits to growth debate -- 3. Interactions between economic and environmental systems -- 4. Delinking environmental impacts from economic growth: issues of scale and indicators -- II: Empirical analyses...

Recent empirical research indicates that certain types of emissions follow an inverted-U or Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) as income grows. This regularity has been interpreted as a possible de-linking of economic growth and patterns of certain pollutants for developed economies. In this...