Burcu Özcan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the Firat University, Turkey. She is also head of the Department of Economics. She did research at the Aarhus University (Denmark) in 2010 and the Sam Houston State University (Texas, USA) in 2016 via scholarships supported by the Turkish Republic. Her research areas are energy and environmental economics, tourism economics and information economics. She published in indexed journals: such as Energy Policy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Energy Exploration & Exploitation Dr. Ilhan Öztürk is Professor of Economics at Cag University, Mersin, Turkey, where he is also the Director of the Higher Vocational School. His research interests include energy economics and international economics. He has published more than 155papers in international journals such as Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Applied Energy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Ecological Indicators, Energy and etc. and participated in many international conferences. He has been invited as a Keynote Speaker in several international conferences. He is the editor of IJEEP and IJEFI and he has been member of editorial board in many international journals.

• Part 1: Introduction1. A Historical Perspective on Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)Part 2: The EKC Literature2. The Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Critical Review of Earlier Literature3. Recent Studies (Extending Basic Environmental Kuznets Curve Model by Adding More Variables)4. Single-Country versus Multiple-Country Studies5. The Process of Sustainability: From Past to Present6. Renewable Energy and Its Finance as a Solution to Environmental DegradationPart 3: The Econometrics of EKC Studies7. Data Selection and Environmental Kuznets Curve Models8. Time Series Analysis (Stationarity, Cointegration, and Causality)9. Panel Data Analysis (Stationarity, Cointegration, and Causality)10. Most Up-to-Date Methodologic Approaches: Evidence from the Wavelet Coherence ApproachPart 4: Conclusion11. Conclusion