Overview
- Considers the complex interactions between and challenges posed by fossil and renewable energy source availability, demographic change, and static economies
- Focuses on the specific challenges in Japan before broadening the scope to the global picture
- Will be of interest to policymakers, economists, researchers, and all those concerned with environmental sustainability and equitable societies
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Energy (LNEN, volume 76)
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In turn, it examines the accessibility of global fossil fuels and feasibility of large-scale solar energy use. A new theory of money, interest, and capital is put forward, together with a proposal for an alternative system of international monetary cooperation, to promote a more sustainable and equitable world. Specific topics discussed include
• the inverted population pyramid, due to the dramatic change in human life spans and declining birth rates;
• the rapidly shrinking workforce, aging population, and declining GDP share sourced from industry;
• disproportionate debt expansion due to public bond issues and coping with a persistent budget deficit;
• the potential collapse of social security systems combined with income inequality; and
• how to mitigate these bio-economic predicaments.
Global Energy Sources offers an essential guide for policymakers, economists, researchers, and all those concerned with establishing a sustainable and equitable society from both energy and monetary perspectives. Further, it will be of interest to readers around the world, as the lessons learned from Japan are crucial to other developed societies that may eventually face the same types of challenge.
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Book Title: Sustainable Energy and Economics in an Aging Population
Book Subtitle: Lessons from Japan
Authors: Kozo Torasan Mayumi
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Energy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43225-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43224-9Published: 02 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43227-0Published: 02 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43225-6Published: 01 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2195-1284
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 220
Number of Illustrations: 57 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Sustainability Management, Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture), Aging