Economic growth and particulate pollution concentrations in China

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 327-338

  Stern, David I ^a   Zha, Donglan ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Air pollution; China; Economic growth; Environmental Kuznets curve

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960398445     PISSN: 1432847X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10018-016-0148-3     Document Type: Article

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