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This book explains the role of energy efficiency in economic development and analyzes trends in energy demand to explore the feasibility of regional economic growth under environmental constraints. Amidst growing environmental constraints, a comprehensive examination is needed of sustainable policies to stimulate regional economic development, while balancing energy use and addressing environmental problems. To accomplish this objective, the book closely examines energy demand trends in Japan by region and clarifies the factors behind changes in energy demand. In addition, this book focuses on the effects of energy efficiency on energy demand, demonstrates quantitatively the factors behind energy efficiency improvements, and explains the use of energy efficiency indicators. From these analyses, readers can investigate favorable regional economic and environmental policies that promote improvements in energy efficiency and contribute to the realization of a low-carbon society. To date, while various publications have presented studies that individually evaluated energy demand levels and energy efficiencies on a country-by-country basis, I am not aware of any publications that have explained the trends and determining factors for energy demand and energy efficiency from the perspective of regional economies. In particular, hardly any investigations have been conducted on favorable energy efficiency indicators suited to the study of energy and environmental policy. To overcome this issue, I present in this book the results of an extended analysis based on an indicator that I developed to determine the factors behind improvements in energy efficiency. In addition, the book highlights various factors behind changes to energy demand within regional economies. The purpose of this research is twofold. First, this book aims to understand the actual regional energy demand situation, in order to clarify the manner in which energy efficiency influences energy demand fluctuations. Second, this book develops an index to measure energy efficiency and analyze its determinants. Based on the above results, the present work identifies the desirable economic environments that will increase energy efficiency

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