Open AccessNew Evidence For The Environmental Kuznets Curve For Sulphur Dioxide Emissions: A Case Study Of The Czech Republic
Author(s) -
Katarína Hercegová,
Wadim Strielkowski
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
social and natural sciences journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1804-9710
pISSN - 1804-4158
DOI - 10.12955/snsj.v4i0.296
Subject(s) - kuznets curve , czech , per capita , environmental pollution , gross domestic product , economics , sulfur dioxide , pollutant , pollution , econometrics , environmental science , macroeconomics , environmental protection , demography , population , chemistry , inorganic chemistry , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , organic chemistry , sociology , biology
In this paper we test the model explaining the inter-dependence between the pollutants and the economic development in the Czech Republic. We calculate the relationship known as the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) by estimating the relationship between the environmental pollution expressed by CO2 and SO2 emissions per capita and the GDP per capita for the Czech Republic for the period from 1990 to 2009. Our findings reveal that the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis for the Czech Republic holds in the case of estimating the inter-dependence between GDP per capita and sulphur dioxide.