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From rural transformation to global integration : comparative analyses of the environmental dimensions of China’s rise

Muldavin, Joshua S. S. - In: Eurasian geography and economics 54 (2013) 3, pp. 259-279

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Measuring the Economic and Ecological Performance of OECD Countries

Lindenberger, Dietmar - 2004

The economic and ecological performance of OECD countries over two decades is measured by employing a Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index. The index credits the expansion of goods (value added) and the contraction of bads (emissions), at given inputs. We consider the inputs of capital,...

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Trade reforms, deforestation and industrial pollution in developing countries: One size does not fit all

Coxhead, Ian; Jayasuriya, Sisira - 2005

Many developing countries possess comparative advantage both in natural resources and in labor-intensive industries, and experience both industrial pollution and natural resource degradation. We present a model that incorporates these stylized facts together with key spatial features and...

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Environmental security and migration: The role of environmental factors as determinants of migration flows in Pakistan

Goria, Alessandra - 1998

This paper investigates the linkages between the environment, income and migration, exploring the role that … environmental factors play in inducing migration within a rural developing economy. The environment has a deep economic value …, representing a source of living for most developing countries: exogenous shocks on the environment, determined for instance by …

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Desperately Seeking (Environmental) Kuznets

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro - 1999

The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country's economic growth and the quantity of various pollutants produced has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence in favor of an inverted-U...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608466

Richer and cleaner? A study on carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro - 1999

The Climate Change debate has drawn attention to the problem of greenhouse gases emissions into the atmosphere. One of the most important issues in the policy debate is the role that should be played by developing countries in joining the commitment of developed countries to reduce GHG...

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Income inequality and the environmental Kuznets curve

Borghesi, Simone - 2000

This study explores the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and income inequality within the framework of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. To investigate this issue, we examine how inequality affects carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their relationship with...

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Lessons from the Southern enlargement of the EU for the environmental dimensions of Eastern enlargement in particular for Poland

Kuik, Onno J.; Oosterhuis, Frans H. - 2001

This paper analyses the environmental dimensions the past accession of Greece, Portugal and Spain to the EU in order to draw lessons for the current accession of countries of Central and Eastern Europe. A distinction is made between scale, composition and technique effects. Two major conclusions...

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Desperately seeking (environmental) Kuznets: A new look at the evidence

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro; Pauli, Francesco - 2001

The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country economic growth and the quantity of pollutants produced in the process has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence pointing to an inverted-U...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608829

Responsibility and joint production

Petersen, Thomas; Faber, Malte - 2004

for the social world. Correspondingly, a problem of responsibility emerges in nature and the environment from the …

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