| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Suppressing increases in wood consumption can be an effective measure to reduce resource and energy consumption as economic development progresses. To accomplish that, we conducted cluster, discriminant, and panel data analyses for 33 OECD and 6 BRIICS countries to identify socioeconomic factors that determine differences between countries of low wood consumption and high wood consumption.
For plywood, reconstituted panels, and paper/paperboard, the results suggest that an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), represented as an inverted-U curve, exists between per capita GDP and per capita consumption, confirming a tendency for consumption to reach saturation and then decline as economic development progresses. Rising population density and urbanization can contribute to a decrease in per capita wood consumption, whereas the larger the country’s forest area is, the greater per capita wood consumption there will be.
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