.... This result indicates that the EKC hypothesis is invalid. Resource use decreases in the early stages of industrialization, while resource depletion accelerates as the process progresses. Increases in trade volume have been found to increase natural resource depletion in the long term. In the short term, while...

...Gideon Ntim-Amo; Yin Qi; Ernest Ankrah-Kwarko; Martinson Ankrah Twumasi; Stephen Ansah; Linda Boateng Kissiwa; Ran Ruiping Purpose The purpose of this research is to examine the validity of the agriculture-induced environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis with evidence from an autoregressive...