Impacts of regional productivity growth, decoupling and pollution leakage

Cathy Xin Cui; Nick Hanley; Peter McGregor; Kim Swales; Karen Turner; Ya Ping Yin

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Impacts of regional productivity growth, decoupling and pollution leakage

Cathy Xin Cui, Nick Hanley, Peter McGregor, Kim Swales^*, Karen Turner, Ya Ping Yin

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Impacts of regional productivity growth, decoupling and pollution leakage. Regional Studies. This paper examines the issues of decoupling regional economic growth and pollution and the extent to which pollution effects spillover regional/national borders. Specifically, a UK, regionally disaggregated, computable general equilibrium (CGE) model is used to investigate the relationship between economic growth and the level of CO₂ emissions posited by the ‘environmental Kuznets curve’ (EKC) conjecture using production accounting principle (PAP) and consumption accounting principle (CAP) environmental accounting methods. The simulation results suggest that at the regional level the existence of an EKC relationship depends on the source of regional growth and the how this relationship is specified.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1324-1335
Number of pages	12
Journal	Regional Studies
Volume	51
Issue number	9
Early online date	27 Jun 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2016.1167865
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

Carbon footprints
Embedded pollution
Environmental Kuznets curve (EKC)
Labour productivity
Regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) models
Regional economic growth

UN SDGs

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