Via Economic Logic, there’s new research on the Kuznets Curve. As originally formulated, the idea is that income inequality in a society grows as economies initially transition from agricultural ...

The environmental Kuznets Curve is simply a formalisation of this idea with respect to a clean environment. If you want the full technical discussion I suggest this paper or this discussion.

This discovery has been dubbed the Environmental Kuznets Curve. See stylized example below. In other words, economic growth correlates with a cleaner natural environment, i.e., richer becomes cleaner.

Market forces tend to privilege regions that already have better infrastructure, human capital, or political clout ...

In 1955 the economist Simon Kuznets published a path-breaking article in the American Economic Review describing what became known as the “Kuznets curve,” shaped like an upside-down U. As industrial ...