This chapter assesses the nature and degree of environmental degradation and resource depletion in China and their relationship to economic activity and environmental policies. We describe regulatory and other policies and consider their political economy determinants. Inasmuch as this objective can only be partially achieved, we hope to contribute to a research agenda for environmental and res...

This paper considers the role of democracy in environmental quality and the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). Some studies in the EKC literature have examined the extent to which democratic nations are more or less apt to have improving environmental conditions, but they have drawn from static measures of a nation’s current regime. In this paper we examine panel data from 1960 to 2001 and anal...

sustainability in 19 different arab countries has been studied through investigating the relationship between economic development and energy consumption. data collected has been studied as a whole (total countries data) and as segregated data (oil exporting and oil importing countries data) i.e. three categories. the regression model used measures the effect of independent and control variable...

An analysis of the association of forest cover, treated as an environmental good, and income at the county scale in the Northeastern United States was conducted for 2006. Global analysis using a spatial error regression model indicates an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) type of relationship, with total forest cover, percent forest cover, and forest cover per capita is better associated with p...

This study aims to examine the environmental dynamics in Union for Mediterranean (UFM) countries by considering education, urbanization, green innovation, and other key factors period 2001–2016. The data are divided based on income level of UFM analyzed with panel quantile regression, unit root tests, co-integration test, ordinary least squares method, fixed effects model evaluate nexus between...

Numerous studies have addressed the question of the econometric specification of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). This paper adds preliminary results on nonstationarity and its effect on functional form using a panel data set for the U.S. by state from 1929 to 1994. It is found that unit-root tests strongly support a unit root in pollutants (sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide) and income w...

Contingent upon the empirical work done, current study seeks to investigate environmental load capacity factor (LCF) consequences of financial development in three different ways for 48 Asian economies. We used two-step system generalized method moments (GMM) technique analyze data from 1996 2020. Initially, we investigated by considering six dimensions development. Then, modified original Kuzn...

In recent years, extensive literature on the Environmental Kuznets Curve leading to optimistic policy conclusions has attracted great attention. However, the underlying cross-section estimations are not very reliable. Accordingly, this contribution uses time series data for a single country with good data quality: Germany. With a specification that includes all theoretical variations and differ...

Environmental sustainability is a burning fact worldwide, especially in developing nations. Equitable economic development, environmental protection, energy efficiency and security have been placed at the apex of discussant policy formulation. This paper establishes relationship between trade quality Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Following Kuznets Curve (EKC) theory, we investigate existence an inv...