Abstract
Sustainable development at the level of the municipal government comes to be seen as important in recent years. It is important to decouple environmental pressure from economic growth in the municipal level. We make an indicator and propose a new mapping approach to classify the decoupling status. In particular, we construct a new decoupling concept to evaluate the state which the environmental pressure increases in spite of the decline in the economic standard. We use the CO2 emission in the household sector as ″environmental pressure″ and the taxable income as ″economic standard″. Then, we demonstrate the use of this new mapping approach at the level of the municipalities in Japan.
