Journal of Rural Development
Analysis of the Effect of Population Redistribution on Greenhouse Gas Reduction
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AuthorKim, Seunggyu
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Publication Date2014.06.21
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Original
Greenhouse gas emissions by human beings are known as one of the critical factors that changes the Earth’s climate. Since the amount of gas emissions is essentially affected by the human economic behaviors, such as farming, operating factories, heating, and commuting for work, the emissions could be changed by the population change in a particular area. Due to the Korea’s economic development through the intensive economic agglomeration, the population densities in several major cities were very high as a result. However, we are recently observing the population migration from major big cities to relatively smaller cities including rural areas (i.e., population decentralization). Thus, this paper tried to capture how this population redistribution will affect the greenhouse gas emissions in Korea. This analysis was conducted using geographically weighted regression in order to accommodate the spatial non-stationarity of the data and to see the spatially heterogeneous effect of the population change on the greenhouse gas emission. According to the regression results, the population redistribution will play a role in decreasing the greenhouse gas emission in the entire Korea, while some other factors have varying effects.
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