The evolution of the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis assessment: A literature review under a critical analysis perspective.

ABSTRACT: Environmental changes based on factors like urbanization, population, economic growth, increase in energy consumption, and agricultural intensification are never far from the top of any agenda. The topics of environmental degradation and climate change cannot be confined to a single country or region but need to be addressed on a global scale. If the focus is on the relationship between environmental degradation and economic growth, then one hypothesis that is comprehensively used as an empirically model is the widely known Environmental Kuznets Curve. A substantial amount of research has been published about the Environmental Kuznets Curve, and this present study provides a detailed and extensive literature review of more than 200 articles from 1998 to 2022 to explain and assess its evolu

SUBMITTER: Leal PH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9668524 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature