Environmental Pollution and Economic Growth: A Complex Perspective

The relationship between emission of environmental degradation has received a lot of attention in the recent decades, this paper assumes that the EKC indicate the macro-interaction phenomenon between environment system and economic system, and the dynamics of an EKC can be explained by the complex activity of the system parameters. By introduced the green technical innovation and environmental investment into Solow growth model, we present a complex dynamic model to discuss the relationship between GDP per capital and the emission of pollutant. Within the parameter analysis, the results of this model indicate that when green technical progress and environmental investment are fixed, the relationship between GDP per capital and emission shows the linear relationship. Furthermore, green technical progress can lead to the positive growth rates with a decreasing level of emission, which the results are compatible with an EKC.