Examining the Environmental Impacts of Population, Affluence and Technology

9311593 Dietz这是一个项目，旨在开发一个改进的模型，用于研究与人口，富裕和技术趋势相关的环境影响。通常用于评估环境影响的简单方程（I=PAT）的每一部分都将重新表述，以反映增加的复杂性，然后将来自不同国家的时间序列、横截面和汇总时间序列横截面数据用于估计包含这些变化的新模型。该项目不仅有可能为我们对环境问题根源的理论理解做出重要贡献，而且还可能为环境政策做出重要贡献。以前的工作使用的I=PAT模型一直受到阻碍的过度简化和不切实际的性质所使用的变量和假设存在于它们之间的关系，从而使它不可能使用这个模型来准确地研究和预测环境的趋势。只要这个项目取得成功，它将克服这些困难。***

9311593 Dietz This is a project designed to develop an improved model for studying the environmental impacts associated with trends in population, affluence, and technology. Each portion of the simple equation often used to assess environmental impacts (I=PAT) will be reformulated to reflect added complexity, and then time series, cross- sectional, and pooled time series cross-sectional data from a variety of nations will be used to estimate new models incorporating these changes. This project has the potential to make important contributions not only to our theoretical understanding of the sources of environmental problems, but also to environmental policy. Previous work using the I=PAT model has been hindered by the oversimplified and unrealistic nature of the variables used and the relationships assumed to exist among them, thus making it impossible to use this model to accurately study and forecast environmental trends. To the extent that this project is successful, it will overcome these difficulties. ***