Economic Impacts of Introducing a New Low Carbon City in Johor Bahru, Malaysia - A CGE Modelling Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 735 ◽  
pp. 238-242
Author(s):  
Shamsunnahar Khanam ◽  
M.J.M.M. Noor ◽  
Zamri Mohamed ◽  
Yuzuru Miyata
Keyword(s):  
Computable General Equilibrium ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Population Census ◽  
Cge Model ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Input Output ◽  
New Production ◽  
Output Table ◽  
Cge Modelling ◽  
Low Carbon City

The Johor Bahru metropolitan area is an industrial and commercial hotspot in the region and almost any significant industrial brand has a branch here. However, the effectiveness of good and effective industrial policy has never been quantified to integrate economy and environment. Taking into account the idea ‘think globally, act locally’, with an emphasis on economy, environment integration, and introducing a Low Carbon City, by building a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, this study successfully examined the economic impacts of new production and the usefulness of economic measure based on the simulated macroeconomic and sectoral factors. An input-output (I-O) table and social accounting matrix (SAM) is the cornerstone in designing a CGE model. Lack of input-output table has badly hampered any effects in the arena of CGE modelling in Johor Bahru City. This study, therefore, attempted to utilize the most updated 2005 input-output table of Malaysia to prepare an input-output table of Johor Bahru City along with using several statistics, including the national population census, manufacturing census and commerce census for developing an input-output table for economic analysis. Modelling results showed that the total industrial output including city GDP has increased 0.07% and 0.08% respectively in 2005. Additionally, the decreasing trends of the prices of major commodity products such as solar power( -1.53 %), electric vehicle ( -0.77%) and in cogeneration (-0.32 % ) were observed significant. Thus, new industrial formation and subsidy plan have proven as the most significant contributors. Therefore, the present research suggests to apply this model into Johor Bahru City’s economy to integrate economy and environment in a city named ‘Low Carbon City-JB’.

Based on Comparable Price Energy Input-Output Table of Xinjiang to Research Low Carbon Economic Development Strategy

2013 ◽  
Vol 291-294 ◽  
pp. 1573-1576
Author(s):  
Yuan Sheng Huang ◽  
Lu Tong Li
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Energy Input ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Output Table ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Advanced Production

Based on the input-output theory, the paper using the comparable price energy input-output table,quantitatively estimates the implicit carbon emissions of each industrial department,and analyzes the growth of the implicit carbon emissions of the resident consumption through the structure decomposition.Conclusion indicates:From 1992 to 1997, the mean of the implicit carbon emissions of each industrial department in Xinjiang had been rising; From 1997 to 2007, the mean of the implicit carbon emissions of each industrial department had been declining;The implicit carbon emissions of Hydropower industry, the fire power and other seven similar industrial department were higher than that of each industrial department so that Xinjiang should strengthen monitoring on the high energy consumption.The implicit carbon emissions of the resident consumption was still in the trend of ceaseless growth and all of that states clearly that the economic grows at the cost of the increase of the greenhouse gas emissions.Xinjiang should introduce foreign advanced production technology,further optimizing the structure of the resident consumption.

Constructing a Database for Computable General Equilibrium Modeling of Sydney, Australia, Transport Network

2017 ◽  
Vol 2606 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
Edward Robson ◽  
Vinayak V. Dixit
Keyword(s):  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium ◽  
Transport Network ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Output Table ◽  
Cge Models ◽  
Level Of Aggregation ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Sydney Australia

In the search for benefits to justify transport projects, economic appraisals have increasingly incorporated the valuation of impacts to the wider economy. Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models provide a framework to estimate these impacts by simulating the interactions of urban economies and transport networks. In CGE models, households and firms are represented by microeconomic behavioral functions, and markets adjust according to prices. As markets both inside and outside the transport network are taken into account, a wide variety of measures that can assist in economic appraisals can be extracted. However, urban CGE models are computationally burdensome and require detailed, spatially disaggregate data. This paper discusses the methodology used to develop a database, including an input–output table, for the calibration of an urban CGE model for Sydney, Australia. Official and publicly available data sources were manipulated by using a number of mathematical and statistical techniques to compile a table for 249 regions and 20 sectors across Sydney. Issues, such as determining the appropriate level of aggregation, generating incomplete data, and managing conflicting data, that other input–output table developers may encounter when constructing multiregional tables were addressed in the study. The table entries themselves were mapped and explored, as they provide a useful study of the spatial economy of Sydney. Future work will focus on streamlining the construction of input–output tables and incorporating new data sources.

Economic Impact Assessment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Getz
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Equity Issues ◽  
Cge Modelling ◽  
Economic Impact Assessment ◽  
Event Tourism

Concepts for understanding economic impacts, and valid methods of assessment are well developed. In fact, there is so much information available that this is the largest chapter in the book – not the most important. A thorough and accessible reference on the subject is the book Tourism Economics and Policy by Dwyer, Forsyth and Dwyer (2010) as it contains a full chapter on events. Event Tourism (Getz, 2013) also covers economic impact assessment in detail. There have been well-documented problems with economic impact assessments for tourism and events (Matheson, 2002; Matheson and Baade, 2003; Crompton and McKay, 2004; Tyrell & Ismail, 2005; Crompton, 2006; Davies et al., 2013), pertaining to both how they are done and the purposes they serve. Dwyer and Jago (2014, p.130) identified three main types of criticisms associated with the assessment of the economic impacts of events, commencing with the exaggeration of benefits owing to either deliberate manipulation or faulty methods. Attention has often focused on the use of Input-Output tables to formulate ‘multipliers’, a practice which leads to exaggerated benefits, with a number of scholars preferring Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling. Most fundamental is the frequent failure to consider all costs and benefits, leading to calls for more comprehensive cost-benefit analysis (CBA). Most economic IAs have utilized only a narrow range of metrics, but even more unfortunate is the continued reliance on multipliers and econometric models, as these ‘black-box’ approaches tend to exaggerate imputed benefits while ignoring costs and equity issues. This is certainly not in keeping with principles of social responsibility and sustainability.

Accounting for carbon emissions associated with tourism-related consumption

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 510-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meiwei Tang ◽  
Shouzhong Ge
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Total Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Output Table ◽  
Goods And Services

This article explores the issues of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions resulting from the production of the goods and services provided to supply tourism consumption. First, we define the scope of tourism activities and the resulting tourism consumption and tourism direct gross value added (TDGVA). Second, we calculate CO2 emissions for sectors and compile a carbon input-output table (CIOT). Third, we adjust the tourism-related products consumed according to the range of the corresponding sectors of the CIOT. Finally, we use Shanghai as an example to calculate the carbon emissions that result from tourism consumption using the input-output model. This study shows that the TDGVA accounted for 7.97% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2012, whereas the carbon footprint of tourism accounted for 20.45% of total carbon emissions. The results demonstrate that tourism is not a low-carbon industry in Shanghai.

Research on the Development Mechanism of the Low-Carbon City

2012 ◽  
Vol 524-527 ◽  
pp. 2381-2387
Author(s):  
Wei Li Zhai ◽  
Wen Ping Peng
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Population Census ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
City Construction ◽  
Low Carbon City ◽  
Carbon Economy

After the UN climate conference in Copenhagen and the Cancun conference in Mexico, the world pays more attention to low-carbon development. Low-carbon city is an important path to develop the low-carbon economy. Countries all over the world have take action now: Britain’s climate change action plan; Danish’s low-carbon communities; Japan’s low-carbon society action plan. In the sixth nationwide population census, urban population closes to the rural population. Urban create 70 percent GDP, it is also a major source of carbon emissions. How economic development decouple from carbon emissions in the process of industrialization, it is a major problem encountered in China. In this paper, it describes the process of the low-carbon city evolution and the concept of the low-carbon city firstly, then it analyses the status of low-carbon city construction in our country secondly, finally the paper puts forward countermeasures. The countermeasure will has important meaning to develop low-carbon economy in our country.

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