Estimativa da Curva de Kuznets ambiental para o Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) considers that some measures of environmental degradation would increase in the early stages of economic growth and, upon reaching a certain level of income, degradation would decrease. In view of the environmental impacts that the state of Mato Grosso do Sul has suffered, this article aims to investigate the hypothesis of the Environmental Kuznets Curve for the state, trying to identify the relationship between deforestation and economic growth. For this, data from 2008 were used, using a spatial econometric methodology, with self-spatial correlation indexes. The results indicated that there is no evidence that the Environmental Kuznets Curve has been inverted for the state, explained by the fact that the curve is in its initial stage, since the MS state economy is extremely dependent on the agricultural sector and having characteristics of an economy still in development, still in the initial stage of the Kuznets Environmental Curve.