Overview
- Introduces examples of the forest environmental tax in Japan and other countries in a systematic manner
- Analyzes the optimization of the forest environmental tax from a theoretical perspective
- Mentions the water source conservation fund as being for the same purpose as the forest environmental tax
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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.
Forest conservation is an especially important policy issue for Japan, where two-thirds of the country is forested. InJapan, a forest environmental tax is being introduced as a forest conservation policy. As of 2021, the forest environmental tax has already been introduced in about two-thirds of the prefectures and soon will be introduced as a national tax. In this book, the significance and issues of the forest environmental tax will be sorted out, and the status of the introduction of the forest environmental tax in Japan will be compared with that of other countries. In addition, there is additional material regarding the water source conservation fund in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, a system similar to the forest environmental tax.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Forest Environment Tax Scheme in Japan
Book Subtitle: Toward Water Source Cultivation
Authors: Keiko Nakayama
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9352-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9351-9Published: 03 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9354-0Published: 04 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-9352-6Published: 02 March 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 126
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Economics, Business Taxation/Tax Law, Regional/Spatial Science, Political Economy/Economic Systems