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Mechanisms explaining the impact of economic inequality on environmental deterioration

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  1. Uddin, Md. Main & Mishra, Vinod & Smyth, Russell, 2020. "Income inequality and CO2 emissions in the G7, 1870–2014: Evidence from non-parametric modelling," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
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  4. Olufemi Gbenga Onatunji & Olusola Joel Oyeleke & Rasaki Stephen Dauda, 2024. "Human Capital, Income Inequality and Energy Demand Nexus in sub-Sahara Africa: Insights from Asymmetric Approach," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 15(4), pages 19517-19541, December.
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  8. Wenny Candra Mandagie & Kiandra Putri Susanto & Endri Endri & Arjuna Wiwaha, 2024. "Oil Price and Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure (CSRD): Evidence from Indonesian Energy Companies," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 14(3), pages 694-701, May.
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  10. Liu, Qianqian & Wang, Shaojian & Zhang, Wenzhong & Li, Jiaming & Kong, Yunlong, 2019. "Examining the effects of income inequality on CO2 emissions: Evidence from non-spatial and spatial perspectives," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 236(C), pages 163-171.
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  13. Liu, Yang & Du, Junying & Wang, Kun, 2024. "Towards common prosperity: The role of mitigating energy inequality," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 195(C).
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  16. Cassin, Lesly & Melindi-Ghidi, Paolo & Prieur, Fabien, 2025. "The impact of income inequality on public environmental expenditure with green consumers," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 90(PB).
  17. Nicolli, Francesco & Gilli, Marianna & Vona, Francesco, "undated". "Inequality and Climate Change: Two Problems, One Solution?," FEEM Working Papers 329340, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).
  18. Yu, Fan & Xiao, De & Chang, Meng-Shiuh, 2021. "The impact of carbon emission trading schemes on urban-rural income inequality in China: A multi-period difference-in-differences method," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 159(C).
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  22. Lili Li & Yaobo Shi & Yun Huang & Anlu Xing & Hao Xue, 2022. "The Effect of Governance on Industrial Wastewater Pollution in China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(15), pages 1-15, July.
  23. Masahina Sarabdeen & Manal Elhaj & Hind Alofaysan, 2024. "Do Digital Adaptation, Energy Transition, Export Diversification, and Income Inequality Accelerate towards Load Capacity Factors across the Globe?," Energies, MDPI, vol. 17(16), pages 1-18, August.
  24. Sager, Lutz, 2019. "Income inequality and carbon consumption: Evidence from Environmental Engel curves," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 84(S1).
  25. Cappelli, Federica & Di Bucchianico, Stefano, 2024. "What role for profits and luxury consumption in the ecological transition?," IPE Working Papers 245/2024, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Institute for International Political Economy (IPE).
  26. Recep Ulucak & Danish & Yaoqi Zhang & Rui Chen & Yiting Qiu, 2024. "Income Inequality, Economic Complexity, and Renewable Energy Impacts in Controlling Consumption-Based Carbon Emissions," Evaluation Review, , vol. 48(1), pages 119-142, February.
  27. Nicolli, Francesco & Gilli, Marianna & Vona, Francesco, 2025. "Inequality and climate change: Two problems, one solution?," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 145(C).
  28. Sulhi Ridzuan, 2024. "Income redistribution and carbon emissions in Portugal," Portuguese Economic Journal, Springer;Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestao, vol. 23(3), pages 421-437, September.
  29. Datu Buyung Agusdinata & Rimjhim Aggarwal & Xiaosu Ding, 2021. "Economic growth, inequality, and environment nexus: using data mining techniques to unravel archetypes of development trajectories," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 23(4), pages 6234-6258, April.
  30. Tobias Angel & Alexandre Berthe & Valeria Costantini & Mariagrazia D’Angeli, 2024. "How the nature of inequality reduction matters for CO2 emissions," Working Papers 2024.14, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
  31. Henninger, Ella & Smith, E. Keith, 2024. "Beyond the haze: Decomposing the effect of economic inequality on global air quality from 2000 to 2020," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 222(C).
  32. Cappelli, Federica & Di Bucchianico, Stefano, 2025. "What is the role of profit and luxury consumption in the ecological transition?," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 147(C).
  33. Andersson, Fredrik N.G., 2023. "Income inequality and carbon emissions in the United States 1929–2019," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 204(PA).
  34. Chao Zhang & Ruifa Hu, 2020. "Does Fertilizer Use Intensity Respond to the Urban-Rural Income Gap? Evidence from a Dynamic Panel-Data Analysis in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-15, January.
  35. Louison Cahen-Fourot & Gaël Plumecocq & Franck-Dominique Vivien, 2023. "Re-examining contemporary capitalism: towards a political economy of ecology [Réinterroger le capitalisme contemporain : vers une économie politique de l'écologie]," Post-Print hal-04398543, HAL.
  36. Liu, Zhen & Li, Ruotong & Cai, Renjie & Lan, Jing, 2023. "A nexus of income inequality and natural resource utilization efficiency: Effect on the road to green economic recovery," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 85(PA).
  37. Tausch, Luca & Althouse, Jeffrey, 2025. "Ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) as a multi-tiered hierarchy: Investigating the interdependence of global and domestic environmental inequalities to explain China's rise," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 235(C).
  38. Stefano Di Bucchianico & Federica Cappelli, 2021. "Exploring the theoretical link between profitability and luxury emissions," Working Papers PKWP2114, Post Keynesian Economics Society (PKES).
  39. Hecker, Lutz Philip & Wätzold, Frank & Markwardt, Gunther, 2020. "Spotlight on Spatial Spillovers: An Econometric Analysis of Wastewater Treatment in Mexican Municipalities," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 175(C).
  40. Lesly Cassin & Paolo Melindi-Ghidi & Fabien Prieur, 2021. "Voting for environmental policy with green consumers: the impact of income inequality," CEE-M Working Papers hal-03146526, CEE-M, Universtiy of Montpellier, CNRS, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro.
  41. Mihály Dombi & Aldebei Faisal Mohammad Fahid & Piroska Harazin & Andrea Karcagi-Kováts & Zhi Cao, 2023. "Four economic principles of just sustainability transition," PLOS Sustainability and Transformation, Public Library of Science, vol. 2(3), pages 1-17, March.
  42. Wolde-Rufael, Yemane & Idowu, Samuel, 2017. "Income distribution and CO2 emission: A comparative analysis for China and India," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 1336-1345.
  43. Lulu Wang & Leyi Chen, 2024. "Resource dependence and air pollution in China: Do the digital economy, income inequality, and industrial upgrading matter?," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 26(1), pages 2069-2109, January.
  44. Usman Mehmood & Ephraim Bonah Agyekum & Salman Tariq & Zia Ul Haq & Solomon Eghosa Uhunamure & Joshua Nosa Edokpayi & Ayesha Azhar, 2022. "Socio-Economic Drivers of Renewable Energy: Empirical Evidence from BRICS," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(8), pages 1-10, April.
  45. Lutz Philip Hecker & Frank Wätzold & Gunther Markwardt, 2018. "Spotlight on Spatial Environmental Policy Spillovers: An Econometric Analysis of Wastewater Treatment in Mexican Municipalities," CESifo Working Paper Series 7251, CESifo.
  46. Kalmey, Tim & Meya, Jasper & Sager, Lutz, 2025. "Biodiversity Engel Curves: Estimating how income and inequality shape consumption-driven biodiversity loss," ZEW Discussion Papers 25-041, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
  47. Moritz A. Drupp & Ulrike Kornek & Jasper N. Meya & Lutz Sager, 2021. "Inequality and the Environment: The Economics of a Two-Headed Hydra," CESifo Working Paper Series 9447, CESifo.
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