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15th IAEE European Conference 2017 in Vienna Motivational aspects of energy transitions in Japan Some empirical findings September 6, 2017 Hidetoshi YAMASHITA Hitotsubashi University, Japan Shinichiro OKUSHIMA University of Tsukuba, Japan
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Hitotsubashi University, Japan
University of Tsukuba, Japan
in Germany (e.g., Engelken et al., 2016), Austria (e.g., Schmidt et al., 2012) or Switzerland (e.g., Müller et al., 2011),
motivation and performance of municipal governments
there are large varieties of objectives and benefits
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Literatures based on European experiences show that
The majority of the motivations of communities can be
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Conducted a questionnaire survey in 2014 Target : All of the 1,741 Japanese municipalities Response rate : 78.8% (1,372 municipalities)
to specify the characteristics of municipalities which
Correspondence analysis
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744 242 80 194 71 41
We encourage their use under written guidelines such as ordinances, plans, targets,
No written guidelines, but we implement policies to encourage use. No written guidelines and no policy, but we show a stance of encouraging use through local government head statements and declarations of position. Currently not encouraging use, but might consider doing so in the future. Currently not encouraging use, no possibility
No response.
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358 323 137 37 106 218 73 48 43 452 78 283 117 89 49 22 83 607 169 55 18 100 200 300 400 500 600 700
R will invigorate the local community. R will make effective use of idle land and local resources. R will increase local employment. R will halt local population decrease. R offer promise of revenues from property taxes, and other sources. R help improve people’s impression of our locality. R offer promise of increased inspection tours and tourism. R will accumulate expertise and experience for business development. R will attract and foster renewable energy equipment makers. R will bring about local consumption of locally produced energy . R offer promise of earnings from Feed-in tariffs. R make possible a more robust response to disasters and other risks. Local government heads show positive leadership. Local citizens and businesses are positive about R. Outside businesses actively encourage commercial projects. Nearby municipalities are actively pursuing R. The prefecture is actively pursuing R. R help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. R help raise the nation’s energy self-sufficiency rate. R help phase out nuclear power. Other.
invigorate resource-use employment population revenue impression tourism expertise maker local-s disaster climate national-s de-nuclear
N=744, multiple responses
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Categories: reasons Respondents: municipalities
Mathematically, it calculates coordinates of categories and
see Hayashi (1952) for detail
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social and economic motivation may be weakly separable.
In order to increase them, we need to make REMs with
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