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J. Swart and L. Brinkmann
Sousa AG, Araujo AA, Santos RBND, Santos FTPD, Diniz MB (2008) Sustentabilidade e meio
ambiente no Brasil: Uma análise a partir da curva de Kuznets. Number 113968 in 46th Congress,
July 20–23, 2008, Rio Branco, Acre, Brasil. Sociedade Brasileira de Economia, Administração
e Sociologia Rural, SOBER
Stern DI (2002) Explaining changes in global sulfur emissions: An econometric decomposition
approach. Ecol Econ 42:201–220
Stern DI (2004) The rise and fall of the environmental Kuznets curve. World Dev 32(8):1419–1439
Stern DI (2017) The environmental Kuznets curve after 25 years. J Bioecon 19:7–28
Stern DI, Common MS (2001) Is there an environmental Kuznets curve for Sulfur? J Environ Econ
Manage 41(2):162–178
Stern DI, Common MS, Barbier EB (1996) Economic growth and environmental degradation: the
environmental Kuznets curve and sustainable development. World Dev 24(7):1151–1160
Suri V, Chapman D (1998) Economic growth, trade and the energy: implications for the environmental Kuznets curve. Ecol Econ 25:195–208
Tao S, Zheng T, Lianjun T (2008) An empirical test of the environmental Kuznets curve in china:
a panel cointegration approach. China Econ Rev 19(3):381–392
Teixeira RFAP, Bertella MA, Almeida LTD (2012) Curva de Kuznets ambiental para o estado de
Mato Grosso. Análise Econômica 313–337
United Nations (2015) Transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, 70th
Session, UN Doc, A/Res/70/1
Vera-Diaz MC, Kaufmann RK, Nepstad DC, Schlesinger P (2008) An interdisciplinary model of
soybean yield in the Amazon Basin: the climatic, edaphic, and economic determinants. Ecol Econ
65(2):420–431
Watts J (2012) Brazil’s Amazon rangers battle farmers’ burning business logic. Guardian.
Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/nov/14/brazil-amazon-rangersfarmers-burning
World Bank (2017) Urban population, percentage of total. Retrieved from http://data.worldbankorg/
indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS?locations=BR
Julia Swart is Assistant Professor at the Utrecht School of Economics. She has spent 10 years
teaching and researching in sustainability and related areas. She has received her doctorate in Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Tinbergen Institute in 2012 where she
researched the implications of natural resources and the environment for economic development
and international relations. In January 2012 she joined the Utrecht School of Economics, at the
Utrecht University—The Netherlands, in the position of Assistant Professor of Economic Sustainability, where she still works now. She teaches courses at the bachelor and master level on Environmental Economics, Economic Growth, Growth and Development, Research Project and Urban
Development. Since July 2017 she is a board member of the PPE bachelor program at the Utrecht
University, where she works with colleagues from Political Science, Philosophy and History.
Lisa Brinkmann holds a Master degree in Economic Policy from Utrecht University and a Bachelor degree in International Economics from the University of Tübingen. She is currently a consultant at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany’s largest
provider of technical development cooperation, where she fosters international multi-stakeholder
partnerships to domestic resource mobilization and the promotion of efficient, transparent and
J. Swart and L. Brinkmann
Sousa AG, Araujo AA, Santos RBND, Santos FTPD, Diniz MB (2008) Sustentabilidade e meio
ambiente no Brasil: Uma análise a partir da curva de Kuznets. Number 113968 in 46th Congress,
July 20–23, 2008, Rio Branco, Acre, Brasil. Sociedade Brasileira de Economia, Administração
e Sociologia Rural, SOBER
Stern DI (2002) Explaining changes in global sulfur emissions: An econometric decomposition
approach. Ecol Econ 42:201–220
Stern DI (2004) The rise and fall of the environmental Kuznets curve. World Dev 32(8):1419–1439
Stern DI (2017) The environmental Kuznets curve after 25 years. J Bioecon 19:7–28
Stern DI, Common MS (2001) Is there an environmental Kuznets curve for Sulfur? J Environ Econ
Manage 41(2):162–178
Stern DI, Common MS, Barbier EB (1996) Economic growth and environmental degradation: the
environmental Kuznets curve and sustainable development. World Dev 24(7):1151–1160
Suri V, Chapman D (1998) Economic growth, trade and the energy: implications for the environmental Kuznets curve. Ecol Econ 25:195–208
Tao S, Zheng T, Lianjun T (2008) An empirical test of the environmental Kuznets curve in china:
a panel cointegration approach. China Econ Rev 19(3):381–392
Teixeira RFAP, Bertella MA, Almeida LTD (2012) Curva de Kuznets ambiental para o estado de
Mato Grosso. Análise Econômica 313–337
United Nations (2015) Transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, 70th
Session, UN Doc, A/Res/70/1
Vera-Diaz MC, Kaufmann RK, Nepstad DC, Schlesinger P (2008) An interdisciplinary model of
soybean yield in the Amazon Basin: the climatic, edaphic, and economic determinants. Ecol Econ
65(2):420–431
Watts J (2012) Brazil’s Amazon rangers battle farmers’ burning business logic. Guardian.
Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/nov/14/brazil-amazon-rangersfarmers-burning
World Bank (2017) Urban population, percentage of total. Retrieved from http://data.worldbankorg/
indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS?locations=BR
Julia Swart is Assistant Professor at the Utrecht School of Economics. She has spent 10 years
teaching and researching in sustainability and related areas. She has received her doctorate in Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Tinbergen Institute in 2012 where she
researched the implications of natural resources and the environment for economic development
and international relations. In January 2012 she joined the Utrecht School of Economics, at the
Utrecht University—The Netherlands, in the position of Assistant Professor of Economic Sustainability, where she still works now. She teaches courses at the bachelor and master level on Environmental Economics, Economic Growth, Growth and Development, Research Project and Urban
Development. Since July 2017 she is a board member of the PPE bachelor program at the Utrecht
University, where she works with colleagues from Political Science, Philosophy and History.
Lisa Brinkmann holds a Master degree in Economic Policy from Utrecht University and a Bachelor degree in International Economics from the University of Tübingen. She is currently a consultant at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany’s largest
provider of technical development cooperation, where she fosters international multi-stakeholder
partnerships to domestic resource mobilization and the promotion of efficient, transparent and