Developing a Planning Framework for Sustainable Consumption-Oriented Industry Strategy- A Case Study of Taiwan Iron and Steel Industry
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Chang, Hsin-Pei
Abstract
To develop a planning framework for industrial strategy should consider economical, social and environmental factors. Iron and steel industry is a crucial industry because it is energy intensive, highly polluting and of high industrial linkage, and there is lack of iron ore in Taiwan. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the iron and steel usage in Taiwan. The amount of consumption of iron and steel in Taiwan was the 12th, and the amount of per capita consumption was the 4th in the world in 2007. To achieve the reduction of consumption and the concept of dematerialization by selecting proper consumption patterns enhancing environmental friendly usage of material, concept of dematerialization and sustainable consumer behavior can be realized.
This study used Input-Output Tables as a tool to analysis of consumption behavior in the domestic economy, with the latest release of the 2006 I-O tables and the COICOP (Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose ) to establish the steel industry physical input-output tables in 2006. Physical input-output tables could provide the material flow analysis by balancing the iron and steel mass usage of every industry in Taiwan. By combing it with the monetary input-output tables, we can also establish “hybrid-unit input-output tables” to analyze the consumption behavior over all the economic system.
According to the inventory of the direct use quantity of all industries from physical input-output tables, the highest one is non-iron and steel metal industry, with a proportion of about 26.59%.From the analysis of hybrid-unit input-output tables including the coefficients, the highest proportion of private consumption part is transportation industry; for the industrial application part, iron and steel industry, non-iron and steel industry and mechanical equipment industry are the greatest; for the construction part, the residential building construction industry is the most important. Decomposing final demand of those key industries of using iron and steel, we found that export plays a great role of driving the iron and steel industry, and the non-iron and steel metal industry. Private consumption derives largely from usage of transport industry and fixed capital formation depends greatly on residential building construction industry. Considering the environmental impact, the following industries have been identified as crucial industries: iron and steel, non-iron and steel metal, mechanical equipment and transport industry.
Compared with the traditional analysis of consumption, this study can predict the flow of iron and steel resulting from industrial consumption behavior by using I/O tables. It is found that a great part of iron and steel consumption, per capita consumption 1.16kg is to meet the need of export,which is the largest part of final demand in the I/O table.
In the part of policy simulation of domestic consumption scenarios, transportation policy with reducing the quantity of motor vehicles and motorcycles can bring about to the reductions of iron and steel output by 2.04 %and 0.86%, respectively. Reducing the consumption of residential building construction can reduce iron and steel output by about 8.62%, indicates the influence of the building policy on the control of the iron and steel output.
Subjects
iron and steel
industry strategy
dematerialization
sustainable consumption
physical input-output tables
hybrid-unit input output tables
SDGs
Type
thesis
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