Crescimento Econômico e Meio Ambiente: O Que Está Faltando Para Entender O Elo Entre Eles?

An extensive empirical literature illustrates that from specific levels of per capita income, some indicators of environmental degradation tend to diminish, creating a behavior known as the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). However, a lot of controversy still exists about the reasons that induce this phenomenon, about the different behaviors of these pollutants and, also, on the effect of this degradation