TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring spatial repercussion effects of regional waste management
AU - Kagawa, Shigemi
AU - Nakamura, Shinichiro
AU - Inamura, Hajime
AU - Yamada, Masato
N1 - Funding Information:
An early version of this paper was prepared for the International Conference on Input–Output and General Equilibrium: Data, Modeling and Policy Analysis, held in Brussels, Belgium, on 2–4 September 2004. We gratefully acknowledge the encouraging comments of Professor Erik Dietzenbacher and participants of our session. We also thank Koichi Tachio and Yoshiharu Ueki of the Japan Environmental Sanitation Center and the other staff members for their cooperation regarding the construction of the 1995 intra- and interregional waste make-use table. All errors are ours. This research has been supported by grants-in-aid for research (17760416) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan.
PY - 2007/7
Y1 - 2007/7
N2 - The present paper proposes an analytical framework for measuring the spatial pollution repercussion effects of regional waste management. The empirical analysis using the 1995 nine-region waste input-output table reveals that as the regional population size become larger, the intraregional waste treatment level directly and indirectly induced by a person's consumption behaviour tends to be large due to economies of scale. In contrast, we especially find that the indirect household contributions per capita of the Chugoku and Shikoku region were, conversely, about 1.4 times larger than that of the Kanto region, because of the differences in the regional commodity consumption patterns. In comparing the actual economic system in 1995 with the hypothetical complete intraregional waste treatment system, we also find that the latter system increased total waste landfill by 18,103 tonnes, which amounts to 0.03% of the total waste landfill, revealing the location advantage of intermediate inputs for waste treatment activities and regional technological differences.
AB - The present paper proposes an analytical framework for measuring the spatial pollution repercussion effects of regional waste management. The empirical analysis using the 1995 nine-region waste input-output table reveals that as the regional population size become larger, the intraregional waste treatment level directly and indirectly induced by a person's consumption behaviour tends to be large due to economies of scale. In contrast, we especially find that the indirect household contributions per capita of the Chugoku and Shikoku region were, conversely, about 1.4 times larger than that of the Kanto region, because of the differences in the regional commodity consumption patterns. In comparing the actual economic system in 1995 with the hypothetical complete intraregional waste treatment system, we also find that the latter system increased total waste landfill by 18,103 tonnes, which amounts to 0.03% of the total waste landfill, revealing the location advantage of intermediate inputs for waste treatment activities and regional technological differences.
KW - Multiregional waste input-output account
KW - Spatial repercussion effects
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U2 - 10.1016/j.resconrec.2006.09.001
DO - 10.1016/j.resconrec.2006.09.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34248208733
SN - 0921-3449
VL - 51
SP - 141
EP - 174
JO - Resources, Conservation and Recycling
JF - Resources, Conservation and Recycling
IS - 1
ER -