Introduction

This special issue contains a selection of six articles in the field of environmental and resource economics, which were presented in INFER workshops and supported events over the last two years. The topics include the effects of income inequality and freedom of the press on environmental stringency; the trade-environment nexus in China; the behavior of cross-country growth rates with respect to resource abundance and dependence; a stochastic frontier analysis to show that technological change is biased more towards energy rather than labor; how recycling and environmental taxes can affect the imbalances between the availability of and the demand for rare earth elements; and the interaction between demographic features and environmental constraints in Caribbean small island developing states. The papers include three empirical contributions and three methodological approaches, which help to improve our understanding of these topics

China · Developing country · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Environmental pollution · Environmental protection · Frontier · Geography · Inequality · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Natural Resources and Economic Development · Ecology

• Trade and the Environment

  Brian R Copeland, M Scott Taylor•Trade and the Environment•2005

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• Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth

  Jeff Sachs, Jeffrey Sachs et al.•National Bureau of Economic…•1995

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• North-South Trade and the Environment

  Brian R Copeland, M Scott Taylor•The Quarterly Journal of Economics•1994

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• Environmental Impacts of a North American Free Trade Agreement

  Gene M Grossman, Gene Grossman et al.•National Bureau of Economic…•1991

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• Free trade and the environment – evidence from Chinese cities

  Open Access•Yunzhi Zhang•Environment and Development…•2020

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• Directed technological change, energy and more

  Open Access•Zheng Hou, Catarina Roseta‐Palma et al.•Environment and Development…•2020

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• Challenging pollution and the balance problem from rare earth extraction

  Open Access•Bocar Samba Ba, Pascale Combes Motel et al.•Environment and Development…•2020

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• The effects of migration and pollution on cognitive skills in Caribbean economies

  Open Access•Lesly Cassin•Environment and Development…•2020

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• Threshold regressions for the resource curse

  Open Access•Nicolas Clootens, Djamel Kirat•Environment and Development…•2020

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