Linking economic growth pathways and environmental sustainability by understanding development as alternate social-ecological regimes [Sustainability Science]

Scientists understand how global ecological degradation is occurring but not why it seems to be so difficult to reverse. We used national-level data and a mathematical model to provide an empirical test of the hypothesis that national economies display two distinct economic regimes that are maintained by self-reinforcing feedbacks between...

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