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BL
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724238
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b543957
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by Sander M. de Bruyn.
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Economic growth and the environment : : an empirical analysis\ by Sander M. de Bruyn.
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| Publication Statement
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Dordrecht: Springer, ©2000.
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| Series Statement
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Economy & environment, 18.
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(xi, 246 pages :) : illustrations.
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| ISBN
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9401057893
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: 9401140685
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: 9789401057899
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: 9789401140683
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| Notes
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Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition originally published by Kluwer in 2000.
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| Contents
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1. Economic growth and the environment: an introduction --;I: Theories and concepts --;2. The limits to growth debate --;3. Interactions between economic and environmental systems --;4. Delinking environmental impacts from economic growth: issues of scale and indicators --;II: Empirical analyses of growth and the environment --;5. The environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis --;6. Economic growth and emissions: revising the environmental Kuznets curve --;7. Short and long-term effects of economic growth on pollution --;8. Trends of dematerialisation and rematerialisation in aggregated throughput --;III: Empirical analyses of driving forces --;9. Decomposition analysis: a tool to investigate the relationship between emissions and income --;10. Driving forces underlying reductions in sulphur emissions --;11. Industrial restructuring and the reduction of heavy metal emissions in North Rhine- Westfalia --;12. Conclusions --;References.
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| Abstract
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Is economic growth good for the environment? This view has received increasing support since the early 1990s from empirical evidence that has challenged the traditional environmentalist's belief that economic growth degrades the environment.
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
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Sustainable development.
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HD75.6B973 2000
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Sander M de Bruyn
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