Aplinkos Kuznets kreivių galimybės tolydžios ekonominės plėtros vertinimui

Abstract

It is accepted that dominating development models contain serious deficiencies, and that current development trajectory is clearly unsustainable. Recent discussions on the dissociation of previously positive relationship between economic growth and resource utilisation (environmental degradation) are markedly related to research of so-called environmental Kuznets curves, where resource degradation will increase initially with per capita income growth and then eventually decline, exhibiting the characteristic inverted-U shape. Some relative data on environmental quality and natural resources utilisation and income per person, allows us to make the presumption that environmental quality worsens with low-income level. But the situation improves with the increase of income level, which reflects "the pressure of dissociating environment with economic growth." This interrelation between the national income per capita and the concentration level of industrial waste is called the environmental Kuznets curve, analogous to traditional curve, proposed by Simon Kuznets (1955), which demonstrates a similar relationship between actual income per capita and income inequality.