1st Edition
Energy Consumption and Aging Populations Experiences from Japan and Spain
This book explores the impact of population aging on energy use patterns in society from both a theoretical and an empirical angle, with a specific focus on Japan and Spain.
Many developed countries are currently experiencing both population aging and population decline, while the demand for social services, such as health care and public transportation, is expected to increase. This book expands upon these well-known socioeconomic challenges and explores the less well-known and more complex relationship between population aging, time allocation to social practices, and energy resource consumption. In the face of energy supply scarcity and climate change concerns, the impact of population aging on energy consumption is of paramount importance. By focusing on the effects of changing time allocation patterns on social practices, the book shows that the impact of population aging on energy consumption will affect not just only affect the residential sector but also other socio-economic sectors of society. Using data from Japan and Spain – currently among the fastest- aging countries in the world – the volume shows that the challenges of an aging society are far more complex and worrying than previously anticipated. If an aging society is an inevitable future, we need to prepare for the challenges that lie ahead.
Written by researchers in the fields of demography, economics, environmental engineering, geography, physics, and transportation engineering, this book will compel academics and policy makers to reflect on these problems and act.
Part I: Introduction
1. Population and Household Trends in Japan and Spain: Impact of Aging on Pensions and Healthcare Expenditures
Nozomu Inoue and Raúl Velasco-Fernández
2. The progress of population aging in the Tokyo metropolitan area in the first half of the 21st century
Takashi Inoue
Part II: A conceptual model
3. The complex relation between population aging and societal energy uses
Mario Giampietro
4. Impact of aging on time allocation and energy consumption patterns in Japan and Spain
Raúl Velasco-Fernández and Shigeru Matsumoto
Part III: Energy use in the residential sector
5. Designing sustainable residential energy consumption policies for an aging population in Japan
Nozomu Inoue, Shigeru Matsumoto, and Kozo Mayumi
6. Population aging, societal time, and household energy use beyond home
Raúl Velasco-Fernández, Shigeru Matsumoto, and Mario Giampietro
Part IV: Changes in energy demand and supply due to changes in population structure: health service, transportation, and new energy systems
7. GIS-based projections of changes in access to healthcare services in an aging population: A case study of Akita prefecture, Japan
Tomokazu Takahashi
8. Population aging, global warming, and mobility: What is required in the future
Masaya Suda
9. Changes in energy resources and lifestyles
Ittaka Kishida
10. Epilogue: Population aging and changing energy use: The need for governance in complexity
Shigeru Matsumoto and Mario Giampietro
Biography
Shigeru Matsumoto is a professor at the College of Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan.
