2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Prospects of Biofuels in Japan, China and India : Environmental Economic Analysis supported by GIS
| Project/Area Number |
20330050
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Applied economics
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokushima |
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Principal Investigator |
MAYUMI Kozo 徳島大学, 大学院・ソシオ・アーツ・アンド・サイエンス研究部, 教授 (40253182)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TANIKAWA Hiroki 名古屋大学, 環境学研究科, 教授 (90304188)
MANAGI Shunsuke 東北大学, 環境科学研究科, 准教授 (70372456)
SASAKI Minoru 茨城大学, 工学部, 講師 (60344834)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2011
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| Keywords | 環境経済 / エネルギー分析 / バイオ燃料 / GIS / 社会メタボリズム |
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| Research Abstract |
The scheme called as Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism based on Georgescu-Roegen' s flow-fund model and hierarchy theory of theoretical ecology has been extended to study the viability and feasibility of large scale biofuels production. Using this general framework, labor and land requirement was calculated to produce ethanol from corn. Labor and land requirement has shown to be tremendously large, thus no country(Japan, China and India) would not achieve feasibility conditions, let alone viability conditions.
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