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The emergence of the concept of sustainable development has encouraged economists and decisionmakers to look at the the extent to which established systems for national a [...]

In this paper we critically examine the concept of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). This concept, most prominently promoted in the World Development Report 1992, pr [...]

Recent work on the ecology and economics of biodiversity loss has indicated that the main ecpnpmic _costs _of species deletion to.the present generation are likely to be [...]

This paper provides a model that attempts to deal with the transboundary nature of the acid rain problem, using a game theoretic approach consistent with mainstream econo [...]

Acid rain causes greater environmental damage than would occur if countries act cooperatively. Based on new estimates of sulphur abatement cost fimctions, the potential g [...]

There has been much debate about the contribution of the mining sector to economic development in developing countries, though multi-country empirical studies have been v [...]

I attempt to measure whether the mining sector contributes to the achievement of sustainable development or detracts from that goal in a number of developing countries. M [...]

Hunt and Lynk (1993) demonstrate that the coefficients of the non-multiplicative terms of a multiplicative logarithmic function are dependent on the units used. I demonst [...]