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This book aims to analyze the impact of green growth and low carbon development on the transformation of energy systems and international trade and to evaluate the environmental and economic consequences of such policies in Northeast Asia. Green Growth and Low Carbon Development in East Asia, thereby, uncovers the limitations and challenges of advancing sustainable development world-wide.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
