Considering that the coordination of economic development and environmental protection has become a worldwide concern and that China's environmental pollution and ecological destruction are mainly attributable to limitation of its future economic development, this paper presents a discussion on the symbiotic relationship between the economic development and environmental protection. The present...

In the 1950s, a future Nobelist Simon Kuznets discovered the following phenomenon: as a country’s economy improves, inequality first grows but then decreases. In this paper, we provide a simple dynamical system-based explanation for this empirical phenomenon. 1 Kuznets Curve: A Brief Reminder and Need for an Explanation What is the Kuznets curve. In the 1950s, Simon Kuznets, an American economi...

This paper analyzes the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis to test the causality relationship between economic activity, trade openness and carbon dioxide emissions in Mexico (1971-2011). The results achieved in this research show that there are three long-run relationships between production, trade openness, energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. The EKC hypothesis was not ...

extended abstract introduction a lot of activities in environmental economics scope have concentrated on this question that why some developing countries suffer from environmental degradation, whereas other countries can maintain or enhance the environmental quality. with the collapse of communism and economic evolution of china, most people live, work and bargain in free market economies. henc...