1st Edition

Green Growth and Low Carbon Development in East Asia

Edited By Fumikazu Yoshida, Akihisa Mori Copyright 2015
232 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The concept of green growth, coupled with one of green economy and low carbon development, is a global concern especially in the face of the multiple crises that the world has faced in recent years - climate, oil, food, and financial crises. In East Asia, this concept is regarded as the key in transforming cheap-labour dependent, export-oriented industries towards a more sustainable... Read more

Part I: Energy Transition 1. Renewable Energy towards Green Growth, Jinsoo Song 2. Renewable Energy and Regional Economies, Fumikazu Yoshida and Haruyo Yoshida 3. Japan’s Energy Policy in the Aftermath of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Has Anything Really Changed? Kazuhiro Ueta 4. Studies on the background to the expansion of wind power in China, Lei Wang and Fumikazu Yoshida  Part II: Trade and Industrial Structural Change 5. Changes in Trade and Economic Structure during the Past 25 Years: Have Green Growth, Low Carbon Strategies Made a Significant Impact in Northeast Asia?, Yasuhiro Ogura and Akihisa Mori 6. Taiwan’s development on environmental industry and green growth, Lih-Chyi Wen and Chun-Hsu Lin 7. Economic and environmental implications of economic integration in East Asia, Satoshi Kojima, Pongsun Bunditsakulchai and Mustafa Moinuddin 8. International Recycling by South Korea in the Context of Green Growth, Soyoung Kim and Akihisa Mori 9. The Policy Impact of Product-Related Environmental Regulations in Asia, Etsuyo Michida  Part III: Perspectives 10. Renewable Energy Sources in Energy Abundant Economy: Russian experience, Nikita Suslov 11. Green Growth and Low Carbon Development in East Asia: Achievements and Challenges, Akihisa Mori

Biography

Fumikazu Yoshida is Professor of Economics at Hokkaido University, Japan.

Akihisa Mori is Associate Professor of Global Environmental Economics at Kyoto University, Japan, and the Director and Secretary General of the East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics.