As populations in developing countries move from rural to urban areas, their consumption patterns change. This study explores the effects of projected national scale migration of populations from rural areas to urban areas and rapid demographic growth on energy consumption and, consequently, on natural resource pressure in Guatemala using an environmentally extended input-output approach
You can read the working paper here.
This repository contains:
- An R processing script with an Environmentally Extended Input-Output analysis model
- A workfile with preparatory work: supply and use tables, energy final demand data, demographic data, final demand calculations, classifications, and aggregations.
- Matrices and Vectors used and created by the model for this study, and
- Documentation in LaTeX and other formats