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Titel:
Age-Structure, Urbanization, and Climate Change in Developed Countries
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Revisiting STIRPAT for Disaggregated Population and Consumption-Related Environmental Impacts
Anmerkungen:
In: Population and Environment, (2010) Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 317-343
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments 2010 erstellt
Beschreibung:
We focus on three environmental impacts particularly influenced by population age-structure — carbon emissions from transport and residential energy and electricity consumption — as well as aggregate carbon emissions for a panel of developed countries, and take as our starting point the STIRPAT framework. Among our contributions is to further disaggregate population into three particularly key age groups: 20-34, 35-49, and 50-64, and by doing so demonstrate that population's environmental impact differs considerably across age-groups, with the older age-groups (ones typically associated with larger households) actually exerting a negative influence. Furthermore, those age-specific population influences are different (in absolute and relative terms) for the different environmental impacts we analyze. Also, we find that urbanization, in developed countries, best measures access to a country's power grid, and thus, is positively associated with energy consumption in the residential sector. Lastly, we suggest some modelling and methodological improvements to the STIRPAT framework