2000 Volume 8 Pages 259-264
This study attempts to evaluate socio-economical impacts due to consumption of resources and energy with rapid industrialization in East Asia by means of Environmental Accounting System and to discuss about sustainable industrial transformation. Firstly, this paper reviews the unbalance growth between regions In China and regional environmental problems. Secondly, it highlightens the basin of Chang Jiang and Pearl River with Open Economic Zones in Coastal Delta and Backward Basins in China. In addition, it calculate environmental load (i. e. Sulfur oxide and COD) induced by inter-transaction of goods and services in these basins by using the Inter-regional input-output analysis. As a result, environmental load in the areas of upper stream is induced by the Inter-regional activities between the areas of down stream.
