Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi)
"The Emergence of a Fossil-fuel-based World Economy and Its Relationships
with Deforestation and Environmental Degradation"
Project Leader: SUGIHARA, Kaoru
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Since the Industrial Revolution, there has been a rapid increase of the
use of fossil fuels in Western Europe and the United States, while most
parts of Asia and Africa were incorporated into the world economy as exporters
of primary products, the production and exportation of which required a
heavy exploitation of land, forests and other natural resources. Thus,
the increased use of fossil fuels in industrial economies and the deforestation
and environmental degradation in primary producers (often in a colonial
setting) were the two sides of the same coin. This project investigates
this historical linkage, and examines how each region's path of economic
development has been affected by it. It also attempts to understand the
development of energy-saving technology in manufacturing in Japan and other
parts of East Asia, and how this energysaving path altered the patterns
of global energy use over the last forty years.
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