Development of household economy-environment accounts for analysis of lifestyle change

Abstract

To consider impact on amounts of environmental load generation by lifestyle changes, it is important to study the relationship among material/monetary inputs to household, household production and generated environmental load. In this study, we developed household economy-environment accounts. These accounts are consists of income expenditure account, input table of household production, capital stock table, table of environmental load generation and environmental load treatment table. We estimated Japn's household economy-environment accounts by household type consistent with the national economic accounts in 2000.