A Forest Environment Tax Scheme in Japan: Toward Water Source Cultivation
A Forest Environment Tax Scheme in Japan: Toward Water Source Cultivation by Keiko Nakayama
English | EPUB | 2022 | 132 Pages | ISBN : 981169351X | 13.8 MB
This book is a work that focuses on the forest environmental tax. Forest resources have played a major role in preventing global warming by absorbing carbon dioxide and supplying oxygen. However, global economic growth has adversely affected the global environment and has exacerbated global warming due to excessive consumption of forest resources. The functions or “services” of forests are diverse, but the interest of the citizenry in forest cultivation is scarce since forests are public goods. Concurrently, Japanese forestry, which has played an important role in forest conservation, is steadily declining, and it is no longer possible for private forest operators to maintain the forest environment. Therefore, in order to realize sustainable economic growth, it is necessary to formulate policies for the conservation of appropriate forest environments.