Demography and Infrastructure: National and Regional Aspects of Demographic Change

✍ Scribed by Wilhelm Kuckshinrichs (auth.), Tobias Kronenberg, Wilhelm Kuckshinrichs (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 272
• Series: Environment & Policy 51
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Population ageing has been going on for many decades, but population shrinking is a rather new phenomenon. The population of Germany, as in many other countries, has passed a plateau and is currently shrinking. Demographic change is a challenge for infrastructure planning due to the longevity of infrastructure capital and the need to match supply and demand in order to ensure cost-efficiency. This book summarises the findings of the INFRADEM project team, a multidisciplinary research group that worked together to estimate the effects of demographic change on infrastructure demand.

Economists, engineers and geographers present studies from top-down and bottom-up perspectives, focusing on Germany and two selected regions: Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The contributors employed a broad range of methods, including an overlapping-generations model for Germany, regional input-output models, an energy systems model, and a spatial model of the transportation infrastructure of the selected regions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introduction to Infrastructure and Demography (InfraDem)....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The Setting: Demographic Trends and Economic Development in Germany and Two Selected Regions....Pages 11-43
Macroeconomic Conditions for Infrastructure Adaptation to Demographic Change....Pages 45-66
Demographically Induced Changes in the Structure of Final Demand and Infrastructure Use....Pages 67-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Demographic Effects on Passenger Transport Demand....Pages 95-110
The Demand for Air Transport and Consequences for the Airports of Hamburg and Rostock....Pages 111-129
Impacts on the National Energy System....Pages 131-146
The Potential for District Heating Based on Renewable Energy: A Spatial Analysis....Pages 147-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Mobility of the Elderly – Facts and Projections....Pages 167-188
On the Energy Demand of Households....Pages 189-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Evaluation of Findings on Sustainability Strategies....Pages 213-224
Policy Implications: The Regional Perspective and Beyond....Pages 225-243
Back Matter....Pages 245-248

✦ Subjects

Environmental Economics; Economic Geography; Demography; Sustainable Development; Energy Economics