The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the industrial importance of the environment industry in Pusan through regional input-output analysis. In the absence of the consensus on the definition and scope of environment industry and related data, this ...
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the industrial importance of the environment industry in Pusan through regional input-output analysis. In the absence of the consensus on the definition and scope of environment industry and related data, this research inevitably focuses on environmental manufacturing industry.
There are various techniques in converting the coefficients of a national table to those of a regional table. Among them, it is said that RAS procedure is most widely used method. So that method is adopted also in this research. The regional table can be obtained through 360 iterative adjustments of rows and columns by using GAUSS program.
The empirical findings of this research show that among the manufacturing industries in Pusan environmental manufacturing industry has relatively strong backward linkage effect and the weakest forward linkage effect. From the above findings, if the demands for environmental industry in Pusan can be created by government policies, we can infer that the growth of other industries as well as environmental industry can be expected.