The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations in 2015, set 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 targets. 232 indicators were proposed as the global framework for monitoring the progress made in achieving SDGs. SDG targets and their corresponding indicators interact with each other forming an...
With the development of globalisation and the emergence of global environmental issues such as climate change, China has become an important country in many multi-regional economic analysis models, such as the multi-region input-output models and the CGE (computable general equilibrium) models. Since China has large regional disparity in terms of...
This book chapter described the methodology to link a country's interregional input-output table with an international input-output table. The case of China's interregional input-output table and the Asian International Input-Output Table are used as an example to build such a link. In particular, the bilateral trade of China and Japan are used to...
This paper closely analyzes the status of biomass utilization in Japan, and the approaches, programs and methods of national policy called “Biomass Nippon Strategy”. With Japan’s “Biomass Town Concept” developed under the Strategy and actual cases, it expounds the successful factors and suggests the actions which should also be considered in China...