The present study concentrates on a Chinese context and attempts to explicitly examine the
impacts of economic growth and urbanization on sulfur dioxide emissions through …

This study explores the interrelationship between FDI, institutional factors, financial
development and sustainability by revisiting the pollution haven (or halo) hypotheses. The …

Over the last decades, energy and pollution control policies combined with structural
changes in the economy decoupled emission trends from economic growth, increasingly …

An economic growth target is a declaration by policy authorities of commitment to that target
and the corresponding allocation of resources. The constraints created by economic growth …

In China, smog pollution has become an increasingly serious environmental issue that
seriously threatens its sustainable economic development. Given that smog pollution usually …

This paper presents a critical history of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). The EKC
proposes that indicators of environmental degradation first rise, and then fall with increasing …

The outward expansion of city centers is a typical feature of rapid urbanization in developing
countries, leading to complex environmental pollution effects due to evolving urban spatial …

We argue that a key empirical finding in environmental economics—the Environmental
Kuznets Curve (EKC)—and the core model of modern macroeconomics—the Solow model …

During the last decade, Norway has carried out an ambitious climate policy. The main policy
tool is a relatively high carbon tax, which was implemented already in 1991. Data for the …

This study investigates the macroeconomic forces underlying carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions from fossil fuel use in Canada. In keeping with the relevant literature on …