How does environmental regulation affect production location of non-carbon ecological footprint?

The aim of the paper is to investigate how the location of non-carbon ecological footprint (home or abroad) changes along with environmental regulation. Ecological footprint measures the amount of biocapacity required to sustain the consumption patterns of human beings. Employing panel data analysis, the relationship between income and footprints that result from domestic production and importsis investigated for 87 countries during the period 2004-2010 within the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) framework.