The income-environment relationship: Evidence from a binary response model

Ecological Economics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 419-428

  Verbeke, Tom ^a,b   De Clercq, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VLEKHO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Binary response; Environmental damage; Environmental Kuznets curve; Income environment relationship; Openness; Political equality

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; INCOME; KUZNETS CURVE;

EID: 33748419118     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.11.011     Document Type: Article

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