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Grow First, Clean Up Later? - An Editorial for a Special Issue
The central feature of this Special Issue, which accomodates 19 scholarly contributions, is its focus on the best practices and challenges in terms of green growth and eco-innovation in developing and structurally challenged areas. By doing this, the collection shows that the empirically established environmental Kuznets curve — i.e., the inverted U-shaped income-environment nexus—can and must be critically questioned. Hence, the geographic frontiers of environmental upgrading, carbon-saving bioeconomic development, and green growth are by no means limited to the economically advanced areas.
Sadik-Zada, Elkhan Richard, and Andrea Gatto. 2023. "Grow First, Clean Up Later? Dropping Old Paradigms and Opening Up New Horizons of Sustainable Development" Sustainability 15, no. 4: 3595. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043595
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