Overview
- A unique study focusing on Japan's Socio-economic approach to sustainable regional cities
- Provides perspective on the 'Triple D' threat; depopulation; de-industrialisation and disasters
- Offers debate on how to ensure sustainable local communities in non-metropolitan areas
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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About this book
The authors explore how the Japanese government has followed the worldwide trend of implementing neo-liberal policies in response to globalisation and how these policies have resulted in a mass exodus into larger cities such as Tokyo, leaving local communities more vulnerable to socio-economic threats. The authors highlight non-metropolitan areas facing the ‘triple D’ threat and introduce several case studies on how these areworking towards achieving a more sustainable future.
Written by members of the LORC (Research Centre for the Local Public Human Resources and Policy Development, Ryukoku University) this collection will be invaluable to scholars across the social and political sciences and to those interested in how innovative policy making can positively influence sustainable development.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nobutaka Matoba is Professor at the Faculty of Policy Science, Ryukoku University, Japan and has acted as the LORC’s Deputy Director since 2014. He obtained a PhD from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Depopulation, Deindustrialisation and Disasters
Book Subtitle: Building Sustainable Communities in Japan
Editors: Katsutaka Shiraishi, Nobutaka Matoba
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14475-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14474-6Published: 27 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14477-7Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14475-3Published: 14 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 364
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)