Humanity’s environmental footprint has increased, but at a much slower rate compared to population and economic growth because of more efficient use of natural resources. There is a long-standing dispute on the extent to which population growth causes environmental degradation. Most studies on this link have so far analyzed cross-country data, finding contradictory results. However, these country-level analyses suffer from the high level of dissimilarity between world regions and strong collinearity of population growth, income, and other factors. We argue that regional-level analyses can provide more robust evidence, isolating the population effect from national particularities such as policies or culture. We compile a dataset of 1062 regions within 22 European countries and analyze the effect from population growth on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and urban land use change between 1990 and 2006. Data are analyzed using panel regressions, spatial econometric models, and propensity score matching where regions with high population growth are matched to otherwise highly similar regions exhibiting significantly less growth. We find a considerable effect from regional population growth on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and urban land use increase in Western Europe. By contrast, in the new member states in the East, other factors appear more important.
<span>The "power" schools during the initial collegiate athletic contests were the Ivy League schools. The Ivy League includes 8 private tertiary education institutions located in the Northeast of the United States. These are </span>Brown University, Harvard University, Columbia University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, Yale University, and Cornell University.
Siamese rulers gave concessions to Western colonies particularly Great Britain.
Answer:
C
Explanation:
storytellers would often tell their stories orally before there was any way of writing them down
King Darius died, his son Xerxes took over, 300 spartans died (including King Leonidas), Persia was defeated by the Greek.
