Environment, Development, and Ecologically Unequal Exchange
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Environment and Economic Development
2.1. Ecological Modernization Theory
2.2. Treadmill of Production Theory
2.3. Some Empirical Evidence
3. Ecologically Unequal Exchange
4. Conclusions
Conflicts of Interest
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