Decomposition of the environmental Kuznets curve: Scale, technique, and composition effects

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-36

  Tsurumi, Tetsuya ^a   Managi, Shunsuke ^a,b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Composition effect; Economic growth; Environmental Kuznets curve; Scale effect; Technique effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949548305     PISSN: 1432847X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10018-009-0159-4     Document Type: Article

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