Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)

Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC): A Manual provides a comprehensive summary of the EKC, summarizing work on this economic tool that can analyze environmental pollution problems. By enabling users to reconcile environmental and economic development policies, Environmental Kuznets Curve studies lend themselves to the investigation of the energy-growth and finance-energy nexus. The book obviates a dependence on outmoded tools, such as carrying capacity, externalities, ecosystem valuation and cost benefit analysis, while also encouraging flexible approaches to a variety of challenges.

• Provides a comprehensive summary of EKC studies, including advances in econometrics, literature reviews and historical perspectives
• Outlines solutions to common problems in applying EKC techniques by reviewing major case studies
• Explores frequently-utilized proxies for environmental quality

Upper-division undergraduates through professionals working on environmental economics subjects, especially in developing economies

Part 1: Introduction
1. A Historical Perspective on Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)

Part 2: The EKC Literature
2. The Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Critical Review of Earlier Literature

3. Recent Studies (Extending Basic Environmental Kuznets Curve Model by Adding More Variables)

4. Single-Country versus Multiple-Country Studies

5. The Process of Sustainability: From Past to Present

6. Renewable Energy and Its Finance as a Solution to Environmental Degradation

Part 3: The Econometrics of EKC Studies
7. Data Selection and Environmental Kuznets Curve Models

8. Time Series Analysis (Stationarity, Cointegration, and Causality)

9. Panel Data Analysis (Stationarity, Cointegration, and Causality)

10. Most Up-to-Date Methodologic Approaches: Evidence from the Wavelet Coherence Approach

Part 4: Conclusion

11. Conclusion