Local municipalities generate large environmental impacts from their daily activities. However, by adopting “green purchasing”, they can reduce their environmental impacts. . Professor Nicole Darnall at Arizona State University has conducted research on sustainable and green purchasing by local governments in the US. Professor Darnall and I are now collaborating in the research of green purchasing by Japanese local municipalities together with Prof. Takuro Miyamoto at Tohoku Gakuin University.
Sustainability 2020, 12(21), 8979 (Coauthors, Takuro Miyamoto, Naonari Yajima and Takahiro Tsukahara)
(2019) by Arizona State University and Research Institute for Environmental Economics and Management, Waseda University