This paper deepens the consumption-based line of inquiry on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) question by means of a large dataset of world countries covering the 1961--2003 period. As indicator of environmental pressure, we employ the well known and widely used ecological footprint estimates. The ecological footprint is consumption-based, since it attributes the environmental impact of a given good o service to the final consumer, independently of where the supplying area is located. As income measure, we use emph{per capita} GDP expressed both in absolute and in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms. None of the estimated models show evidence of a de-linking between economic growth and environmental pressure for high levels of income. As a whole, our analysis does not hence support the EKC hypothesis.
A worldwide time series analysis of the relatioship between economic growth and environmental pressure
BAGLIANI, Marco Maria
;BRAVO, GIANGIACOMO;DALMAZZONE, Silvana;
2007-01-01
Abstract
This paper deepens the consumption-based line of inquiry on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) question by means of a large dataset of world countries covering the 1961--2003 period. As indicator of environmental pressure, we employ the well known and widely used ecological footprint estimates. The ecological footprint is consumption-based, since it attributes the environmental impact of a given good o service to the final consumer, independently of where the supplying area is located. As income measure, we use emph{per capita} GDP expressed both in absolute and in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms. None of the estimated models show evidence of a de-linking between economic growth and environmental pressure for high levels of income. As a whole, our analysis does not hence support the EKC hypothesis.
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