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Development and the Environmental Kuznets Curve in China

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As already mentioned in previous chapters, there prevail considerable concerns about the bad environmental consequences of rapid economic development in China. It has been widely argued that China’s economic development has been relying too much on environmental inputs, and the excessive use of environmental inputs is posing serious threats to China’s water, air, bio-system and energy supplies (Co et al. 2008), leading to bad consequences such as environmental deterioration and resource degradation.

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    For a broader range of literature on economic performance and the environment, see, for example, Brock (1973), Becker (1982), Tahvonen and Kuuluvainen (1993), Copeland and Taylor (1994), Bovenberg and Smulders (1995), Mohtadi (1996), Smulders and Gradus (1996), Vincent (1997), Nordhaus and Boyer (2000), Brock and Taylor (2004, 2005), Xepapadeas (2003, 2005), Tzouvelekas and Xepapadeas (2006), Considine and Larson (2006), Tol (2009), World Bank (2006, 2011), Zhang and Crook (2011), Arrow et al. (2012), and Solow (2012).

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Jiang, Y. (2016). Development and the Environmental Kuznets Curve in China. In: Green Development in China. SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0693-7_4

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