2010 Volume 6 Issue 2 Pages 125-131
The Japanese government selected 13 cities as Eco-Model-City（EMC）for the Low Carbon Society. Each EMC has its area-specific strategy that challenge the ambitious target of GHG emissions reduction. The City of Kitakyushu was selected as EMC in 2008 and its action plan is based on the concept of ‘Stock-type Society’. Japanese economy development has been based on “Flow-type Society”, that is to say, “Scrap & Build” economy. On the contrary, “Stock-type Society” is to make everything long-life from daily-goods to urban-biosphere. The “Stock-type Society” leads to synthetic and systematic solution of problems with regard to Environment, Economics, Quality of Life（QOL）, and resources. To make “Low Carbon Society” stable, the economic system of human society should be synchronized with the eco-system of the earth, and to make the lives of following generation sustainable, “Stock-type Urban-Design” should be based on the estimated condition of the world and local areas in 2050. The long-life physical assets on the “Stock-type Society” are attractive subject to invest money. So the money assets can be changed into the physical assets. As the Institute of LCA Japan is the nearest position to “Stock-type Society”, we expect the LCA’s contribution toward this social change.
