Health benefits of tunneling through the Chinese environmental Kuznets curve (EKC)

Ecological Economics

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 674-686

  Brajer, Victor ^a   Mead, Robert W ^a   Xiao, Feng ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; China; Environmental Kuznets curve; Health benefits; Tunneling

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DEGRADATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HEALTH IMPACT; KUZNETS CURVE; SULFATE; TUNNELING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 45449119519     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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