Economic Growth and the Environment An Empirical Analysis
Is economic growth good for the environment? A number of economists have claimed that economic growth can benefit the environment, recruiting political support and finance for environmental policy measures. This view has received increasing support since
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Economy & Environment VOLUME 18
Scientific Advisory Board Scott Barrett, School ofAdvanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, U.S.A. Klaus Conrad, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany David James, Ecoservices Pty. Ltd., Whale Beach, New South Wales, Australia Bengt J. Kristrom, University of Umea, Sweden Raymond Prince, Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Congress, Washington DC, U.S.A. Domenico Siniscalco, ENI-Enrico Mattei, Milano, Italy / University of Torino, Italy
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
Economic Growth and the Environment An Empirical Analysis
by
Sander M. de Bruyn Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
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ISBN 978-94-010-5789-9 ISBN 978-94-011-4068-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-4068-3
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Contents List of figures and tables
ix
Preface
Xl
Chapter 1. Economic growth and the environment: an introduction 1.1. The growth-versus-environment debate 1.2. A short historical overview of study approaches 1.3. Research framework 1.4. Plan of the book 1.5. Empirical applications and research methods employed
1 I 3 6 9 10
PART I: Theories and concepts
15
Chapter 2. The limits to growth debate 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Economic growth, welfare, public policy and limits 2.3. Resource availability as a limit to growth 2.4. Thermodynamic limits to growth 2.5. Ecosystem's limits to growth 2.6. Sustainable development as a limit to growth 2.7. Ethical considerations in the concept of sustainable development 2.8. Conclusions and discussion
17 17 18 22 26 28 30 35 38
Chapter 3. Interactions between economic and environmental systems 3.1. Introduction 3.2. A survey of modelling approaches 3.3. Problems in integrating models 3.4. Dimensions of industrial transformation 3.5. Conclusions
41 41 43 48 52 55
Chapter 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 4.5. 4.6. 4.7.
Delinking environmental impacts from economic growth: issues of scale and indicators Introduction Environmental scale analysis Scale and delinking: two hypotheses Environmental indicators Aggregation of environmental indicators International trade, transboundary pollution and environmental indicators Conclusions and linkages to other chapters in the book
v
57 57 58 61 64 67 70 73
PART II: Empirical analyses of growth and the environment
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Chapter 5. The environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis 5. 1. Introduction 5.2. A survey of empirical studies testing the EKC 5.
