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The environmental Kuznets curve and the Pasteur effect: environmental costs in Sweden 1850–2000

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  • Magnus Lindmark
  • Sevil Acar

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The dynamics of environmental problems is among other things affected by knowledge and economic growth and the perception of welfare. In this article, we present a method for aggregating historically relevant environmental pressure indicators, thereby acknowledging that the complexity of environmental problems calls for multi-indicator approaches. Secondly, we use the aggregate for exploring the long-run dynamics between the environment and economic growth, using a methodology used in the study of the so-called environmental Kuznets curve. We find evidence for a right tilted-S form dynamic relationship. The dynamics is analyzed in a framework stressing that new knowledge of environmental problems is an important driver for the changing relationship, here called "the Pasteur effect".

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  • Magnus Lindmark & Sevil Acar, 2014. "The environmental Kuznets curve and the Pasteur effect: environmental costs in Sweden 1850–2000," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 18(3), pages 306-323.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ereveh:v:18:y:2014:i:3:p:306-323.
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    1. Agovino, Massimiliano & Bartoletto, Silvana & Garofalo, Antonio, 2019. "Modelling the relationship between energy intensity and GDP for European countries: An historical perspective (1800–2000)," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 114-134.

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