Economic prosperity, biodiversity conservation, and the environmental Kuznets curve

Ecological Economics

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2087-2095

  Mills, Julianne H ^a   Waite, Thomas A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Consumption; Economic growth; Environmental Kuznets curve; Quantile regression; Spatial filtering

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC IMPACT; KUZNETS CURVE; NATURE CONSERVATION;

EID: 64949192623     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.01.017     Document Type: Article

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