Environmental support, energy security and economic growth in Japan

Journal article

This study investigates the resource consumption of Japanese society since 1979 and its subsequent effects on the economic output of the nation and the environment. In order to quantify resource appropriation and trends in production and consumption, the concept of emergy synthesis is employed. Our results show a significant increase in the total amount of emergy consumed by 66.9% between 1979 and 2003 which comes hand in hand with an increase in the level of environmental stress by 93.7% (qu...

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Authors: Gasparatos, A; Gadda, T

• Journal: Energy Policy
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 4038-4048
• Publication date: 2009-10-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.05.011
• ISSN: 0301-4215
• Language: English
• Keywords: Sustainability; Japan; Emergy