Commercial Scientific study on rules of bearing environmental costs and conditions for creating eco-business
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10630097
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Commerce
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| Research Institution | Hitotsubashi University |
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Principal Investigator |
KURIHARA Shiro HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY, Department of Commerce, Professor, 商学部, 教授 (80262385)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 1999
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1999)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
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| Keywords | environmental cost / eco-business / photovoltaic cell / solar system / wind power / hybrid car / cogeneration / RDF |
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| Research Abstract |
Almost all eco-business are currently in their infant stages. The environmentally friendly products, the outputs of these eco-business, must compete with the conventional ones in order to create a new market. Main barriers to the diffusion of these eco-products are considered to lie in their relatively higher prices which are competitive disadvantage in the market. Left to the price mechanism in free market its diffusion is expected to increase very slowly only to find a minor demand for them by the environmentally conscious consumers. Social needs for their diffusion is, however, great in spite of the difficulties in the markets.
A certain measure to absorb higher social costs associated with the introduction of eco-products will be required to create an initial demand for them in order to accelerate their diffusion and make eco-business more competitive, more profitable. It is quite effective also as business strategy to try to establish a social rule of bearing environmental costs through making a social consensus.
One of the measures for the global warming problem is to promote the introduction of environmentally friendly technologies and commodities into markets. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate from the user's viewpoint the cost-effectiveness of energy-saving technologies and new energy commodities such as photovoltaic cell, wind power, hybrid car and refuse derived fuel (RDF) power generation and to search for an appropriate rule of bearing environmental costs in order to create environment industries. The Citizens Pay Principle is derived from the generalization of the Aachen Model in Germany.
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