Environmental Kuznets Curves for air pollutant emissions in Italy: Evidence from environmental accounts (NAMEA) panel data

Economic Systems Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 277-301

  Mazzanti, Massimiliano ^a,d   Montini, Anna ^b,d   Zoboli, Roberto ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air pollutants; Delinking; Eenvironmental Kuznets curves; NAMEA

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CAPITAL FLOW; DATA SET; EMISSION CONTROL; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GREENHOUSE GAS; HETEROGENEITY; KUZNETS CURVE; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 53549085438     PISSN: 09535314     EISSN: 14695758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09535310802344356     Document Type: Article

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