IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/eclchp/978-981-16-4951-6_4.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Population Decline and Creative Reconstruction in Disaster-Affected Areas

In: Spatial Economics for Building Back Better

Author

Listed:
  • Masahisa Fujita

    (Kyoto University)

  • Nobuaki Hamaguchi

    (Kobe University)

  • Yoshihiro Kameyama

    (Saga University)

Abstract

The periphery area of Japan has experienced outflows of young people as well as the aging of population ahead of the core area. The Sanriku coast, which we pay attention to as the most severely affected area by the Great East Japan Earthquake, consists of small cities that demonstrate the typical demographic characteristics of the periphery. Chapter 4 showed that the earthquake gave further impetus for a negative feedback of population decline and the weakening of agglomeration forces. Population outflow is occurring because of negative self-organization driven by increased dispersion forces after the earthquake, triggered by housing problems, delay in restoring central business districts (CBD), and employment mismatches. Reconstruction policy should not be aimed at recovering the original population size, but at the realization of optimal population size for supporting an affluent life while effectively using the natural advantage existing in each region. To take in the vigor of robust external demand, it is necessary to use creativity to differentiate products and strengthen ties with regional core cities.

Suggested Citation

  • Masahisa Fujita & Nobuaki Hamaguchi & Yoshihiro Kameyama, 2021. "Population Decline and Creative Reconstruction in Disaster-Affected Areas," Economics, Law, and Institutions in Asia Pacific, in: Spatial Economics for Building Back Better, chapter 0, pages 99-122, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eclchp:978-981-16-4951-6_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-4951-6_4
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:eclchp:978-981-16-4951-6_4. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.