1st Edition
Energy Consumption and Aging Populations Experiences from Japan and Spain
Part I: Introduction
1. Population and Household Trends in Japan and Spain: Impact of Aging on Pensions and Healthcare Expenditures
Nozomu Inoue and Raúl Velasco-Fernández
2. The progress of population aging in the Tokyo metropolitan area in the first half of the 21st century
Takashi Inoue
Part II: A conceptual model
3. The complex relation between population aging and societal energy uses
Mario Giampietro
4. Impact of aging on time allocation and energy consumption patterns in Japan and Spain
Raúl Velasco-Fernández and Shigeru Matsumoto
Part III: Energy use in the residential sector
5. Designing sustainable residential energy consumption policies for an aging population in Japan
Nozomu Inoue, Shigeru Matsumoto, and Kozo Mayumi
6. Population aging, societal time, and household energy use beyond home
Raúl Velasco-Fernández, Shigeru Matsumoto, and Mario Giampietro
Part IV: Changes in energy demand and supply due to changes in population structure: health service, transportation, and new energy systems
7. GIS-based projections of changes in access to healthcare services in an aging population: A case study of Akita prefecture, Japan
Tomokazu Takahashi
8. Population aging, global warming, and mobility: What is required in the future
Masaya Suda
9. Changes in energy resources and lifestyles
Ittaka Kishida
10. Epilogue: Population aging and changing energy use: The need for governance in complexity
Shigeru Matsumoto and Mario Giampietro
Biography
Shigeru Matsumoto is a professor at the College of Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan.
