A0258
Title: Empirical analysis on validity of economic approaches to environmental issues
Authors: Yuejun Zheng - Doshisha University (Japan) [presenting]
Abstract: Various environmental issues caused by the economic development in China, Japan and South Korea, as the major powers of the East Asia, have been aggravating in both local and global levels in the past decades. It is needless to say that the improvement of individual consciousness and behavior on environment is an indispensable way to resolve environmental issues. In particular, the economic instrument has always been considered as a legal restraint to regulate the organizational or individual behaviors connected with the environmental destruction. The focus is on analyzing the validity of economic approaches, including environmental tax, decline in material comfort and control of economic growth, based on a data set collected from an East Asian cross-national survey on consciousness toward culture, life, and environment in 2011. Results derived from multivariate analysis on question items concerning consciousness toward environmental issues, economic development and their mutual relationships, have shown that the roles and limits of economic approach in different socioeconomic situations.
