Identification and implications of relationships among pollutant emission, economic structure and economic growth in China through multivariate analysis

Journal of Environmental Science and Management

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-11

  Jiao, Roujing ^a   Zhang, Pingdan ^b   Zhu, Song ^b   He, Li ^c   Niu, Haipeng ^d  

^a South China Institute of Environmental Sciences   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Renmin University of China   (China)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Economic structure; Inverse N shape Environmental Kuznets Curve; Multivariate regression; Pollutant emission

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904988436     PISSN: 01191144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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