This study examined which socio-economic drivers contributed to energy-related CO2 emissions in Japanese households in all 47 prefectures since 1990. We adopted the logarithmic mean Divisia index technique to decompose the prefectural trends in CO2 emissions during the period 1990-2013 into six...

Combining a popular flood disaster dataset with climate data and satellite land cover data from China, this paper estimates how forests mitigate the frequency of flooding, resulting in two major findings. First, we confirm that an increase in forest area mitigates the possibility of flood...

Although much uncertainty exists in simulating future climate profiles with earth system models (ESMs), it has not been evaluated in relation to socioeconomic aspects. In this study, we analyze the socioeconomic impact of three emission pathways, all of which possibly achieve 4.5 W/m2 of...

The role of unconventional resources (e.g., oil sands and extra-heavy oil) is anticipated to increase in the global oil market. Although we are facing a scarcity of conventional (low cost) oil resources, unconventional oil resources might manage (for a period of time) to supply constraints in...

Cumulative CO2 emission is a good indicator for climate stabilization. It has recently been used in socioeconomic research dealing with climate mitigation. However, previous studies do not focus on the socioeconomic impacts of choosing different emission pathways under fixed cumulative CO2...