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Economic Growth and the Environment

An Empirical Analysis

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Sander M. Bruyn

    1. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Economy & Environment (ECEN, volume 18)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Economic growth and the environment: an introduction

    1. Economic growth and the environment: an introduction

      • Sander M. de Bruyn
      Pages 1-13

  3. Theories and concepts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. The limits to growth debate

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      Pages 17-39

    3. Interactions between economic and environmental systems

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      Pages 41-56

    4. Delinking environmental impacts from economic growth: issues of scale and indicators

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      Pages 57-74

  4. Empirical analyses of growth and the environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. The environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis

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      Pages 77-98

    3. Economic growth and emissions: revising the environmental Kuznets curve

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      Pages 99-120

    4. Short and long-term effects of economic growth on pollution

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      Pages 121-135

    5. Trends of dematerialisation and rematerialisation in aggregated throughput

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      Pages 137-159

  5. Empirical analyses of driving forces

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
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    2. Decomposition analysis: a tool to investigate the relationship between emissions and income

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      Pages 163-184

    3. Driving forces underlying reductions in sulphur emissions

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      Pages 185-200

    4. Industrial restructuring and the reduction of heavy metal emissions in North Rhine-Westfalia

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      Pages 201-219

    5. Conclusions

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      Pages 221-230

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 231-247
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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 the early 1990s from empirical evidence that has challenged the traditional environmentalist's belief that economic growth degrades the environment. This book reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on growth and the environment, giving an in-depth empirical treatment of the relationship between the two. Various hypotheses are formulated and tested for a number of indicators of environmental pressure. The test results indicate that alternative models and estimation methods should be used, altering previous conclusions about the effect of economic growth on the environment and offering an insight into the forces driving emission reduction in developed countries.

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  • Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Sander M. Bruyn

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