The Rise and Fall of the Environmental Kuznets Curve

By David I. Stern. 2004

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Does Poverty Cause Environmental Degradation? Evidence from Developing Countries (2018, background): “It is also an important factor in managing the risks of floods, control of the local climate, and supply of clean water for the economy and society (Dinda, 2004; Selden & Song, 1994; Stern, 2004).”
Socially sustainable degrowth as a social–ecological transformation: repoliticizing sustainability (2015, background): “…GDP has risen faster than carbon dioxide emissions over the last 18 years (Jackson 2009)—absolute decoupling, i.e. absolute decline in resource use over time while the economy grows, is not occurring (Ayres et al. 2004; Krausmann et al. 2009; Galeotti et al. 2006; Stern 2004; Soumyananda 2004).”
Environment Kuznets curve for CO2 emissions: A cointegration analysis for China (2009, neutral): “3 A survey of EKC studies on sulfur by Stern et al. (1996) lists several reasons”
A spatially explicit life cycle inventory of the global textile chain (2009, background): “…of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) conjecture: where environmental impacts first rise with economic growth but eventually decrease as increased prosperity allows the environment to become a higher priority and generates the revenue necessary for impact mitigation (Dinda 2004; Stern 2004).”
Decomposition of Ireland's carbon emissions from 1990 to 2010: An extended Kaya identity (2013, methodology): “This highlights not only the limits of EKC but also the emergence of decomposition as a more appropriate method to disentangle the relationship between development and environment (Stern, 2004).”
Taking the "U" out of Kuznets: a comprehensive analysis of the EKC and environmental degradation. (2009, background): “…example, several studies have proposed the “new toxins” scenario may exist in which the traditional pollutants exhibit an inverted Ushape in relation to increases in income; however the pollutants that replace these do not, leading to an overall increase in environmental degradation (Stern, 2004).”
Revisiting the Environmental Kuznets Curve in a Global Economy (2013, background): “But Stern [4] argued the issues of EKC should be revisited by using new models and new decompositions with different panels and time series data sets.”
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part I: bibliometric and conceptual mapping (2020, background): “…and Omri 2017), emissions and growth (Mardani et al 2019), the problematic and inconclusive evidence on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (Dinda 2004, Stern 2004, Carson 2010, Tiba and Omri 2017, Sarkodie and Strezov 2019), or the role of efficiency versus consumption growth for increasing energy…”
Economic Growth, Industrialization, and the Environment (2012, background): “For surveys specific to the empirical literature on the EKC, see Barbier (1997) and Stern (2004).”
Lessons From Quantile Panel Estimation of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (2014, methodology): “The theoretical underpinnings have been discussed extensively elsewhere (e.g., de Bruyn and Heintz, 1999; Stern, 2004; Dinda, 2004; Bartz and Kelly, 2008).”
Foreign direct Investment–CO2 emissions nexus in Middle East and North African countries: Importance of biomass energy consumption (2019, background): “11 has been extensively outlined in the literature of the EKC (Shafik and Bandyopadhyay, 1992; Stern et al., 1996; Stern, 2004; Dinda, 2004; Shahbaz and Sinha, 2019).”
The New ‘Passive Revolution’ of the Green Economy and Growth Discourse: Maintaining the ‘Sustainable Development’ of Neoliberal Capitalism (2015, methodology): “The EKC is, however, a flawed model as it has been used as an argument for ‘grow first, clean up later’ (Stern 2004).”
A Global Assessment of Manufacturing: Economic Development, Energy Use, Carbon Emissions, and the Potential for Energy Efficiency and Materials Recycling (2013, background): “With time, and increased affluence, however, clean water and urban sanitation usually improve and SO2 emissions decrease, whereas such outputs as CO2 and solid waste generally do not follow this pattern (14, 47).”
Energy savings via FDI? Empirical evidence from developing countries (2009, background): “Although the EKC is a well-known concept and is regarded as a stylized fact in environmental economics, its existence has recently been challenged on both theoretical and empirical sides (e.g., Stern, 2004; Siebert, 2005).”