Environmental Quality and Development: Is There a Kuznets Curve for Air Pollution Emissions?

TL;DR: This study finds that urban form elements have significant influences on PM2.5 concentration, thus influencing the incidence of cardiorespiratory mortality at the county level and may help explain how the type and pattern of development shape public health by influencing air quality and form an evidence-based land use policy to improve environmental quality and public health.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined daily Level-3 satellite retrievals of AIRS CO, OMI SO2 and NO2, and MODIS AOD over eastern China to understand how COVID-19 lockdowns affected atmospheric composition, taking into account trends that have occurred since 2005.

TL;DR: In this paper, a STIRPAT-based spatial econometric model was used as an empirical test for the driving factors of city carbon emissions in China prefecture-level city data.

TL;DR: While modernization theory has been largely abandoned in the social sciences, its influence is evident in environmental Kuznets curves, ecological modernization, and forest transition theory, and these environmental social theories have consequently undergone criticism and varying degrees of reformulation that moved them away from modernization trappings, and in the process opened them to greater influence from theoretical perspectives in other social science disciplines, as well as the biophysical sciences as discussed by the authors.