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Decomposing the impact of population growth on environmental deterioration: some critical comments on a widespread method in ecological economics
The IPAT-model developed by Ehrlich and Holdren is widespread in ecological economics in order to quantify the impact of population growth on environmental deterioration. We comment on this model and extensions proposed by several authors from a theoretical and empirical point of view.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Discussion Paper Series ; No. 422
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Environmental Economics: General
Demographic Economics: Other
- Subject
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environmental deterioration
population growth
decomposition analysis
Umweltbelastung
Bevölkerungswachstum
Umweltökonomik
Dekompositionsverfahren
Theorie
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Gans, Oskar
Jöst, Frank
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
- (where)
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Heidelberg
- (when)
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2005
- Handle
- Last update
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Gans, Oskar
- Jöst, Frank
- University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
Time of origin
- 2005