Is environmental sustainability influenced by socioeconomic and sociopolitical factors? Cross-country empirical evidence

Sustainable Development

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 353-371

  Mukherjee, Sacchidananda ^a   Chakraborty, Debashis ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND POLICY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN TRADE   (India)

Author keywords

Corruption; Democracy; Economic growth; Environmental Kuznets curve; Environmental policy; Environmental sustainability; Human development

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; DEMOCRACY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; KUZNETS CURVE; PERCEPTION; POLICY MAKING; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84890749711     PISSN: 09680802     EISSN: 10991719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sd.502     Document Type: Article

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