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Introduction to the environmental Kuznets curve special issue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2001

EDWARD B. BARBIER
EDWARD B. BARBIER
Affiliation:
Environment Department, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD, UK
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Abstract

This special issue is concerned with environmental Kuznets curves (EKC) - the hypothesis that there is an ‘inverted-U’ relationship between various indicators of environmental degradation and levels of per capita income. Explanations as to why environmental degradation should first increase then decline with income have focused on a number of underlying relationships, including:

the effects of structural economic change on the use of the environment for resource inputs and to assimilate waste;

the link between the demand for environmental quality and income;

types of environmental degradation and ecological processes.

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Environment and Development Economics , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , November 1997 , pp. 357 - 367
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© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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