The building blocks of international ecological footprint inequality: a regression-based decomposition

Jordi Teixido and Juan Duro

No XREAP2013-03, Working Papers from Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)

Abstract: This paper performs an empirical Decomposition of International Inequality in Ecological Footprint in order to quantify to what extent explanatory variables such as a country’s affluence, economic structure, demographic characteristics, climate and technology contributed to international differences in terms of natural resource consumption during the period 1993-2007. We use a Regression-Based Inequality Decomposition approach. As a result, the methodology extends qualitatively the results obtained in standard environmental impact regressions as it comprehends further social dimensions of the Sustainable Development concept, i.e. equity within generations. The results obtained point to prioritizing policies that take into account both future and present generations.

Keywords: Ecological Footprint Inequality; Regression-Based Inequality Decomposition; Intragenerational equity; Sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2013-04, Revised 2013-04
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Journal Article: The building blocks of International Ecological Footprint inequality: A Regression-Based Decomposition (2015)
Working Paper: The Building Blocks of International Ecological Footprint inequality: A Regression-Base Decomposition (2013)
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