ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Assessing the Green Growth Trajectory through
Resource and Impact Decoupling Indices:
The Case of Poland
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Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Agricultural University of Athens,
Iera Odos 75, 11855 Athens, Greece
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Department of Bioeconomy and Systems Analysis, Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation – State Research
Institute, 8 Czartoryskich St, 24-100 Puławy, Poland
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Technical University of Crete, School of Environmental Engineering, 73100 Chania, Greece
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Department of Public Economics, Cracow University of Economics, Rakowicka 27, 31-510 Kraków, Poland
Submission date: 2020-05-14
Final revision date: 2020-09-29
Acceptance date: 2020-10-18
Online publication date: 2021-02-10
Publication date: 2021-04-16
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Athanasios Kampas
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 11855, Athens, Greece
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2021;30(3):2573-2587
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This paper uses the most appropriate measures and data sources to map the likely growth delinking
of Polish economy for the period 1990-2016. Evidences of green growth exist and were assessed both
qualitatively and quantitatively. This paper also examines the likely policy implications by means
of cross-correlation analysis. The results indicate that Poland can be conceptualized as a successful
paradigm prescribed by the ecological modernization theory since growth is not associated with human
pressure on natural resources and does not produce detrimental environmental impacts.