Abstract

Recently, the diffusion of tightly sealed, highly insulated housing into the northern parts of Japan has increased. As one of its global warming countermeasures, the Ministry of Construction reconsidered and revised energy efficiency standards for housing in March, 1999. Called collectively the "next-generation standard," the revised standards should result in improved energy efficiency by about 30% in the regions where most of Japan's population is concentrated.

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Panel 1: Policy (incentives, normative measures, policy mixes to achive CO_2 reduction)

Panel 2: Technologies and Products (innovation, marketing, market transformation)

Panel 4: Environmental Perspective (externalities and life cycle approaches, local and global impacts and incentatives)

Panel 3: Dynamics of Consumption (social and cultural perspectives, actors and their interactions)

Panel 5: Land use,Transportation and infrastructure (urban and regional planning, approaches to change in well entrenched systems)