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Title
Spatial economics for building back better : the Japanese experience / Masahisa Fujita, Nobuaki Hamaguchi, Yoshihiro Kameyama.
ISBN
9789811649516 (electronic bk.)
9811649510 (electronic bk.)
9811649502
9789811649509
Publication Details
Singapore : Springer, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-16-4951-6 doi
Call Number
HT388
Dewey Decimal Classification
330.952
Summary
The central theme of this book is national land and infrastructure design in the age of the declining population and the recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake in the affected regions in Japan. Based on the theory of spatial economics and evidence from Japanese history, the authors show that the growing economy with a population increase develops into a multi-cored and complex structure. In the population decline phase, however, such construction will be destabilized because of agglomeration economies in the central core. Then, a catastrophic shock that strikes may provoke the decline of the lower-rank-size provincial cities and their eventual disappearance if they compete only in lower prices of staple products. Not only is the practice bad for the residents; it also leads to lower national welfare resulting from the loss of diversity and overcrowded big cities. The authors argue that small local towns can recover and will be sustained if they will endeavor in innovative production by making good use of local natural resources and social capital. Under the ongoing declining population in Japan, an undesirable concentration in Tokyo will proceed further with increasing social cost and risk. The recent novel coronavirus pandemic has highlighted that concern.
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Series
Economics, law, and institutions in Asia Pacific, 2199-8639
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9789811649509
Long-Term Transition of Population and National Land System
Transformation Processes of National Land Systems and Reconstruction Policy from a Spatial Economics Perspective
Process of Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake with Pictures and Data
Population Decline and Creative Reconstruction in Disaster-Affected Areas
Reconstruction Based on Natural Resources
Supply Chain Resiliency
Regeneration of Physical and Institutional Infrastructure for Local Community
Local Community as a Device for Regional Innovation
Building Back Better to Overcome the COVID- 19 Pandemic and the Great East Japan Earthquake.
