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Inequality, democracy, and the environment

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2010

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Downey, L., and Strife, S., 2010, Inequality, democracy, and the environment: Organization & Environment, v. 23, iss. 2, p. 155-188.

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This paper analyzes the role of the energy transformation index and of final energy consumption per GDP unit in the disparities in energy intensity across countries. In that vein, we use a Theil decomposition approach to analyze global primary energy intensity inequality as well as inequality across different regions of the world and inequality within these regions. The paper first demonstrates the pre-eminence of divergence in final energy consumption per GDP unit in explaining global primary energy intensity inequality and its evolution during the 1971–2006 period. Secondly, it shows the lower (albeit non negligible) impact of the transformation index in global primary energy inequality. Thirdly, the relevance of regions as unit [...]

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DOI WECC []
ISSN WECC 1086-0266 1552-7417

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