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This study attempts to examine issues related to the existing adverse relationship between regional economic development and natural environment protection. For doing so, a regional environmental input-output model for the region of central Macedonia in northern Greece is constructed in order to quantify the direct and indirect undesirable negative effects of the production process in the natural environment. The results suggest that there is a considerable trade-off between economic development and environmental deterioration which should be taken into account when policy decisions are made.
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This paper benefitted from comments by the participants of the Forty-Seventh International Atlantic Economic Conference, Vienna, Austria, March 16–23, 1999.
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Loizou, S., Mattas, K., Tzouvelekas, V. et al. Regional economic development and environmental repercussions: An environmental input-output approach. International Advances in Economic Research 6, 373–386 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02294958
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