The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Seeking Empirical Regularity and Theoretical Structure

By Richard T. Carson. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2010

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A Global Assessment of Manufacturing: Economic Development, Energy Use, Carbon Emissions, and the Potential for Energy Efficiency and Materials Recycling (2013, background): “Ultimately, we need a more detailed understanding of the actual changes in society as wealth increases before an EKC mathematical framework can be confidently proposed (15).”
Modelling the nonlinear relationship between CO2 emissions from oil and economic growth (2012, background): “Carson (2010) surveys previous theoretical and empirical studies and concludes that several factors could affect the estimation results of EKC models; these include econometrics models, sample countries, pollution indices, explanatory variables, data attributes, and income and pollution functions.”
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part I: bibliometric and conceptual mapping (2020, background): “The five most frequently used keywords to describe the conceptual angle of the studies are Environmental Kuznets Curve (70), energy intensity and energy efficiency (62 and 59), decoupling (43), sustainable development (28) and societalmetabolism (27).”
Environmentally efficient well-being: Is there a Kuznets curve? (2012, background): “Early on concerns were raised that the EKC oversimplified complex relationships by focusing exclusively on economic development (Roberts & Grimes, 1997) but today the literature on the EKC is vast and growing, is detailed, is replete with controversy, and is increasingly sophisticated in analytic ap”
Does income growth relocate ecological footprint (2016, background): “Yet the empirical evidence is mixed, that is, it is not possible to talk about a unique curve for all types of environmental degradation (see Dinda (2004) and Carson (2010) for a critical survey of the recent EKC literature).”
A spatial panel data approach to estimating U.S. state-level energy emissions (2013, background): “bias correction (Elhorst, 2010; Lee and Yu, 2010a) — results without the bias correction are almost identical. The LR and Wald test statistics are reported in Table 5, and as noted by LeSage and Pace (2009) yield similar results.”
Future air pollution in the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (2017, background): “While there is no unique relationship between either pollutant levels or emission controls and income (Stern, 2005; Carson, 2010; Smith et al., 2005), a continued tightening of pollution targets can be considered a consequence of growing attention given to health outcomes with increasing income, or ”
Co-Benefits and Additionality of the Clean Development Mechanism: An Empirical Analysis (2011, neutral): “Although the EKC model has many limitations (Dasgupta et al., 2002; Stern, 2004; Carson, 2010), it provides a basic structure to predict pollution at the aggregate level.”
Financial development and environmental quality: The way forward (2016, background): “The EKC hypothesis posits that economic growth is initially accompanied by environmental degradation but that environmental quality begins to improve as the economy achieves the threshold level of the per capita income (for details, see Stern 2004 and Carson 2010).”
The Influencing Factors of CO2 Emissions and the Role of Biomass Energy Consumption: Statistical Experience from G-7 Countries (2018, background): “Figure 1 shows an inverted U-shaped relationship between economic growth and environmental degradation [19, 27, 32, 38, 40, 114, 122, 136].”
How does carbon dioxide emission change with the economic development? Statistical experiences from 132 countries (2013, result): “In addressing what is the relationship between economic development and CO2 emission, earlier studies gave differed answers (see review by Stern (2004) and Carson (2010)), and some major drawbacks make the answers doubtful.”