Environment, Energy, and Economy: Strategies for Sustainability (UNU, 1997, 381 pages)

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Preface

1. Introduction

Part 1 - Global issues and response strategies: Overview

2. Past issues and new problems: A plea for action

3. Policy measures for global environmental problems: A Japanese perspective

4. Environment, economy, energy, and sustainable development

Part 2 - The status of the global environment

5. Climate changes due to the increase in greenhouse gases as predicted by climate models

6. Deforestation and desertification in developing countries

Comments on part 2

Part 3 - Energy-economy interactions in stabilizing CO2 emissions

7. Modelling economically efficient abatement of greenhouse gases

8. Macroeconomic costs and other side-effects of reducing CO2 emissions

9. The effects of CO2 reduction policies on energy markets

Comments on part 3

1. Lawrence R. Klein

2. Warwick J. McKibbin

3. Kenji Yamaji

Appendix to part 3 examining the macroeconomic effects of curbing CO2 emissions with the Project LINK world econometric model

Part 4 - Long-term strategies for mitigating global warming

10. The role of technology in energy/economy interactions: A view from Japan

11. Global and renewable energy: Potential and policy approaches

12. Energy efficiency: New approaches to technology transfer

13. Decarbonization as a long-term energy strategy

Part 5 - Energy issues in developing countries

14. The crisis of rural energy in developing countries

15. The developing world: the new energy consumer

16. The role of rural energy

Comments on part 5

Part 6 - Long-term strategies of developing countries

17. Leapfrogging strategies for developing countries

18. A development-focused approach to the environmental problems of developing countries

19. Economic development, energy, and the environment in the people's Republic of China

Comments on part 6

Contributors