Economic growth and the environment: reassessing the environmental Kuznets Curve for air pollution emissions in OECD countries

Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 29-47

  Georgiev, Emil ^a   Mihaylov, Emil ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Special Durbin model; Air pollutants; Environmental Kuznets Curve; OECD

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894613300     PISSN: 18644031     EISSN: 1864404X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12076-014-0114-2     Document Type: Article

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