کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5051105 1371112 2010 15 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
A further inquiry into the Pollution Haven Hypothesis and the Environmental Kuznets Curve
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک بوم شناسی، تکامل، رفتار و سامانه شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
A further inquiry into the Pollution Haven Hypothesis and the Environmental Kuznets Curve
چکیده انگلیسی

Empirical research on the relationship between economic growth and its impact on the environment often tests the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), a hypothesis that rising national output leads to increases in pollution emissions until an economy reaches a certain size, and decreases thereafter. This paper addresses a branch of EKC literature focused on the role international trade plays in shaping this relationship. In particular, we test the Pollution Haven Hypothesis, which posits that emission reductions observed in developed nations are partly the result of shifting “dirty” production to developing nations with lax environmental standards.We estimate EKCs for seven oft-studied pollutants and find little evidence that pollution havens play a significant role in shaping the EKC. We also find that confidence intervals around EKC turning points are very wide, often including values well above the range of the data. This leads us to be skeptical of the optimistic view that economic growth naturally leads to improvements in environmental quality.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Ecological Economics - Volume 69, Issue 4, 15 February 2010, Pages 905-919
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