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Kyle W. Knight
Researcher at University of Alabama in Huntsville
Publications - 20
Citations - 1212
Kyle W. Knight is an academic researcher from University of Alabama in Huntsville. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sustainability & Climate change. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 19 publications receiving 953 citations. Previous affiliations of Kyle W. Knight include Washington State University & University of Alabama.
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Could working less reduce pressures on the environment? A cross-national panel analysis of OECD countries, 1970–2007
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the effect of working hours on three environmental indicators: ecological footprint, carbon footprint, and carbon dioxide emissions, and find that working hours are associated with greater environmental pressures and thus may be an attractive target for policies promoting environmental sustainability.
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Economic Growth and Climate Change: A Cross-National Analysis of Territorial and Consumption-Based Carbon Emissions in High-Income Countries
Kyle W. Knight,Juliet B. Schor +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions over the period 1991-2008 with a balanced data set of 29 high-income countries is explored, with particular attention to the difference between territorial emissions and consumption-based emissions, which include the impact of international trade.
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The environmental efficiency of well-being: A cross-national analysis
Kyle W. Knight,Eugene A. Rosa +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors construct a new measure of EWEB using the ecological footprint per capita and average life satisfaction (a measure of subjective well-being) using hypotheses from political economy, modernization, and sustainable consumption theories in the environmental social sciences.
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Wealth Inequality and Carbon Emissions in High-income Countries:
TL;DR: This paper investigated the relationship between domestic wealth inequality and consumption and found that wealth inequality is positively associated with climate change and economic inequality, but not with consumption, and found no correlation between consumption and climate change.
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Environmental Concern in Cross‐National Perspective: The Effects of Affluence, Environmental Degradation, and World Society*
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of national affluence, environmental degradation, and world society integration on various dimensions of environmental concern were evaluated using factor analysis to separate distinct dimensions of concern.