Research on the R & D Tool for Environmental Technology: Lifestyle Hazard Map

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  • 環境技術戦略立案ツールとしてのライフスタイル・ハザードマップ
  • カンキョウ ギジュツ センリャク リツアン ツール ト シテ ノ ライフスタイル ・ ハザードマップ

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<p>As the Earth has repeated natural selection in its 4.6 biilion-year-history, manufacturing industries and products are also filtered by environmental constraints. Environmental constraints affect not only companies and products but also affect people’s lifestyles.</p><p>As environmental constraints get increasingly severe, non-environmentally friendly products will no longer be able to exist, and quality of life will be damaged. In order to predict the “natural selection” of such products and to plan a technological strategy, we have developed a tool called ‘lifestyle hazard map’. The new tool is based on data from our questionnaire survey and existed data. We found the levels of priority about products, and plotted them on the “lifestyle hazard map” using LC-CO2 data and data from our questionnaire survey. This tool can show, quantitatively and extensively, which products are at a risk of “natural selection” in terms of their environmental burden and market needs. In addition, we found the levels of priority of products for consumers who were conscious of environmental constraints and created another map under the assumption which environmental constraints were impacted significantly.</p><p>We compared the lifestyle hazard maps of present situation with the one assuming environmental constraints. As a result, there was no big difference in the shape of the maps between them. After this analysis, we found that consumers cannot change their lifestyles greatly even when they are aware of environmental constraints. Therefore, we cannot decrease the environmental burden greatly by being frugal and saving resources. In order to reduce the environmental burden on people’s lives, it is important that companies should think of new lifestyles and products together, and help people change their lifestyles environmental low burden.</p>

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