Interrelationships between income, health and the environment: extending the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis
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Interrelationships between income, health and the environment: extending the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis
This paper examines the link between the health indicators and the environmental variables for a cross-section of countries widely dispersed on the economic development spectrum. While environment and income are seen to have an inverted-U shaped relationship (Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis), it is also well established that environment and health are positively related. Our study ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecological Economics
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0921-8009
DOI: 10.1016/s0921-8009(00)00250-0