This monograph presents potential remedies for some of the current environmental issues in developed countries in a theoretical or empirical manner with the interdisciplinary approaches of economics, statistics, and engineering. The book illustrates effective economic and environmental policies for environmental challenges and factors where corrective policies to date may have failed. The importance of this essential book has is related to the transition in the major concerns of the people or governments in developed countries shifting from economic growth to the stability of life and environmental preservation as their economies have matured. The environmental issues dealt with here include forest environment tax introduced as part of local taxes, air pollution reduction policies for mobile emission sources, introduction of renewable energies and power fuel cell technology, the mechanism of city agglomeration and dispersion, and measurement of environmental sustainability. In analytical methods, some research employs theoretical approaches such as the mathematical economic model or nonlinear dynamic model. Other analyses are implemented with empirical or statistical tools such as the long-run general equilibrium model, the input-output model, and the dynamic optimization model, among others.

Autorentext
Keiko Nakayama, Chukyo University, Faculty of Economics, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Yuzuru Miyata (deceased)

Inhalt

Part I: Environment: Theoretical Approach.- Chapter 1. Optimal Emission Technology for Non-point Source Pollution.- Chapter 2. Environmental Policy and Sustainable Growth of Firms in Curnot Oligopoly.- Chapter 3. Long-run Equilibrium in a Vertically Related Industry with Environmental Externality.- Chapter 4. Environmental Policy Cordination among Countries at Differeing Stages of Development.- Chapter 5. Joint Treat the Earth: Natural Environment, Fertility, and Government in an Overlapping Generations Economy.- Chapter 6. Dynamic Analysis on Public Investment for Forest Conservancy.- Chapter 7. Sustainable Growth of Forest.- Part II. Environment: Empirical Approach.- Chapter 8. Agglomeration and Dispersion Mechanism of Cities System with Interior Structure.- Chapter 9. A Study on Comprehensive Environmental Policy to Reduce Air and Water Pollutants Emission in the Lake Basin.- Chapter 10. Environmental Assessment of Biomass Energy Crops.- Chapter 11. Impacts of a New Methane-reforming Technology for Hydrogen-based Society on Global Environment and Regional Economic Scenario Input-output Analysis.- Chapter 12. Evaluating the Environmental Load Reduction in Mikawa Bay: A Municipal Input-Output Approach.