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Chapter Eighteen:. Growth and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century. Climate Change. Figure 18.1: Global Temperature Trends, 1900-2100. Source: U.S. Global Change Research Program, www.globalchange.gov . Economic Growth and the Environment. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Figure 18.1: Global Temperature Trends, 1900-2100
Source: U.S. Global Change Research Program, www.globalchange.gov .
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Source: Panayotou, T., "Empirical Tests and Policy Analysis of Environmental Degradation at Different Levels of Development,” 1993.
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Figure 18.2: Environmental Kuznets Curve for Sulfur Dioxide Emissions
Source: T. Panayotou, “Empirical Tests and Policy Analysis of Environmental Degradation at Different Levels of Development,” International Labour Office Working Paper, 1993.
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Figure 18.3: Carbon Dioxide Emissions vs GDP per Capita, 2009
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators Database 2013.
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Source: OECD, OECD/EEA Instruments Database 2007
Table 18.1: Global Population Classification by Income and Environmental Impacts, 2013
Source: World Bank, Little Green Data Book 2013; World Development Indicators 2013.
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Figure 18.7: A No-Growth Scenario for the Canadian Economy
Source: Adapted from Peter Victor, Managing Without Growth: Slower by Deisgn, not Disaster. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2008, p. 182.
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Figure 18.8: Population by Age and Sex, United States, 1900, 2000, and 2040 (projected)
Source: Wan Wan He, Manisha Sengupta, Victoria A. Velkoff, and Kimberly A. DeBarros, U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, P23–209, “65+ in the United States: 2005”, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.