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| Author: | Scruggs, L.A. |
| Title: | Political and economic inequality and the environment |
| Journal: | Ecological Economics
1998 : SEP, VOL. 26:3, p. 259-275 |
| Index terms: | environmental protection political conditions economic conditions equality |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | There is a hypothesis that political and economic equality result in lower levels of environmental degradation. This article analyzes and tests this hypothesis.Two cross-national empirical tests tend to support the claim of the author that equality may or may not be necessary to minimize environmental degradation. |
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