Life Style in Regional Context, and Structure of Carbon Dioxide Exhaust

Research Project

Project/Area Number	10650599
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Town planning/Architectural planning
Research Institution	FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY
Principal Investigator	ABE Joji Faculty of Education, Fukushima-University, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (50044566)
Project Period (FY)	1998 – 1999
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1999)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000) Fiscal Year 1999: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000) Fiscal Year 1998: ¥2,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000)
Keywords	carbon dioxide / life style / household / family expenditure survey / compact city / dwelling / 地域生活様式 / 持家と借家
Research Abstract	The present world faces the global environmental problem. The common standard about this problem is the output of carbon dioxide. Today, mass production and mass consumption support our daily life, so it is deeply related to carbon dioxide exhaust. This study consists of two parts. First, the carbon dioxide output, which originates in the entire life, was estimated by using the family expenditure survey, connected with the carbon dioxide unit requirement based on the input-output tables. The amount of the carbon dioxide was compared between different number of households, the age of the householder, dwellings, and the city class. The carbon dioxide emission is deeply related to the character and location of households. Then, some matters that are deeply related to the life style were studied from the regional views. Today, our families become smaller, and our dwellings are widely diffusing to the suburbs. Consequently, motorization increases and carbon dioxide emission is growing. We should pursue compact cities to minimize environmental emissions. To reduce the carbon dioxide exhaust, we must reconsider the social context.