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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Forest fires have escalated alarmingly, now consuming more than double the tree cover compared to two decades ago, signaling a growing and urgent environmental crisis. This study addresses the ever increasing global concern of forest fires, focusing on sustainable economic recovery while minimizing the ecological footprint amid mounting ...
Laxita Soontha +2 more
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Municipal Waste Production, Economic Drivers, and ‘New’ Waste Policies: EKC Evidence from Italian Regional and Provincial Panel Data [PDF]
This paper provides empirical evidence on delinking and Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) for municipal waste production in Italy. First, methodological issues and literature on delinking and EKC for waste are critically re-examined. Secondly, we analyse
Massimiliano Mazzanti +2 more
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Środowiskowa krzywa Kuznetsa: przegląd teoretyczno-metodyczny
Rozwój Regionalny i Polityka Regionalna, 2020 Koncepcja środowiskowej krzywej Kuznetsa (EKC) odnosi się do zależności pomiędzy rozwojem gospodarczym, najczęściej wyrażanym wartością PKB per capita, a degradacją środowiska.
Natalia Genstwa
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Energy Options to Reduce Deforestation Using EKC Model: A Region‐Based Longitudinal Approach
Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Forests are carbon storage that can reduce carbon emissions, so deforestation (decrease in forest area) is a serious threat to environmental sustainability. Indonesia is a large carbon sink due to its large forests. However, deforestation is quite high due to economic activities that use fossil energy.
Krismanti Tri Wahyuni +3 more
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A Bayesian Approach to the Estimation of Environmental Kuznets Curves for CO2 Emissions [PDF]
This paper investigates the EKC curves for CO2 emissions in a panel of 109 countries during the period 1959-2001. The length of the series makes the application of a heterogeneous estimator suitable from an econometric point of view.
Massimiliano Mazzanti +2 more
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Driving Factors of Carbon Dioxide Emissions and the Impact from Kyoto Protocol [PDF]
In the last two decades increasing attention has been paid to the relationship between environmental degradation and economic development. According to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis this relationship may be described by an inverted-U ...
Nicole Grunewald +1 more
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Therapeutic Effects of Methanol Extract from Euphorbia kansui Radix on Imiquimod-Induced Psoriasis
Journal of Immunology Research, 2017 The roots of Euphorbia kansui, which belong to the family Euphorbiaceae, have been used as a traditional medicine for the treatment of various diseases such as diabetes, ascites, and leukemia.
Soo Jeong Kim +7 more
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Детские инфекции (Москва), 2017 In recent years, the number of adenoviral epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC) cases in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) has increased, which is primarily due to the establishment of an ophthalmologic service in these institutions, and the increase ...
I. B. Astasheva
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Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The rise of AI companions has sparked interest in their potential to alleviate the growing social problem of loneliness, yet evidence of their effectiveness remains unsettled. Drawing on social surrogacy theory with a theories‐in‐use approach, this research introduces synthetic mindfulness, defined as consumers' judgment of an AI companion's ...
Varqa Shamsi Bahar +3 more
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve: a Survey of the Literature [PDF]
In the last few years, several studies have found an inverted-U relationship between per capita income and environmental degradation. This relationship, known as the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), suggests that environmental degradation increases in ...
Simone Borghesi
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