1st Edition

Frontiers of Environmental Input-Output Analysis

By Shigemi Kagawa Copyright 2012
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Input-Output Analysis (IOA) is widely used in the field of ecological economics, industrial ecology, and environmental sciences. Industrial Ecology (IE) and Ecological Economics (EE) are promising and growing fields. IOA plays a crucial role in analyzing the related environmental and resource issues and providing quantitative information to many research questions and policy implications.... Read more
1. Introduction   2. A Structural Decomposition of Energy Consumption Based on a Hybrid Rectangular Input-Output Framework  3. A Spatial Structural Decomposition Analysis of the Chinese and Japanese Energy Demand  4. An Empirical Analysis of Industrial Waste Embodied in the 1995 Japanese Economy  5. A Simple Multi-Regional Input-Output Account for Waste Analysis  6. Measuring Spatial Repercussion Effects  7. Inter-Industry Analysis, Consumption Structure, and the Household Waste Production Structure  8. The Economic and Environmental Consequences of Automobile Lifetime Extension and Fuel Economy Improvement  9. Does Product Lifetime Extension Increase Our Income at the Expense of Energy Consumption?

Biography

Shigemi Kagawa obtained his BA in Civil Engineering, MA in Information Sciences, and P.h.D. from Tohoku University, Japan, in 2001. Since 2006, he is associate professor of economic statistics. He is a board member of the Economic Systems Research (Journal of the International Input-Output Association) and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Input-Output Analysis. He was awarded Leontief memorial prize for his work on environmental input-output analysis from the International Input-Output Association. ).