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Forest Protection System and Optimal Land-Use Management Policy in Japan

In: Time and Space in Economics

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  • Masahiro Yabuta

    (Chuo University)

  • Yasuhito Yamanishi

    (Chuo University)

Abstract

Summary The purpose of this chapter is to give a comprehensive analysis of the present conditions and issues around forest conservation in Japan. We shall focus on an evaluation of the Japanese forest policy, and typically the forest protection system that is mainly based on the public benefit of forests. We shall show the analytical framework of land use for the protected forest, and then give an empirical examination concerning the enforcement and effectiveness of the forest protection system on a prefectural base. It is shown that there are large deviations in the proportion of forest protection among prefectures in Japan. By using a simple optimal choice model of land use decisions to explain these deviations, some important factors of the prefecture-based deviations of the proportions of protected forest are shown from empirical viewpoints. Then we shall evaluate the forest protection system of Japan, and suggest its policy implications.

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  • Masahiro Yabuta & Yasuhito Yamanishi, 2007. "Forest Protection System and Optimal Land-Use Management Policy in Japan," Springer Books, in: Toichiro Asada & Toshiharu Ishikawa (ed.), Time and Space in Economics, chapter 13, pages 239-261, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-4-431-45978-1_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-45978-1_13
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