著者

浅見 均 日野 智 佐藤 馨一

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JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

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地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

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vol.32, no.1, pp.337-351, 2002-10-30 (Released:2008-10-10)

参考文献数

25

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On Japanese inter-regional railway, there are several networks. Shinkansen and existing lines (AC/DC/no electrification) have no inter-operability. We can regard that inter-operability is very important factor to evaluate quality or redundancy of inter-regional railway network.In this study, I analyzed concerning historical process of inter-operability in Japanese inter-regional railway network, and some example of making inter-operability and link stop with no alternative routes. Through this analysis, I can define current problems of inter-regional railway network in Japan.On ordinary condition, it is possible to increase social benefit by making inter-operability between Shinkansen to existing line. Yamagata Shinkansen project and Akita Shinkansen project are successful example.On situation of link stop, there are some risks to increase social losses. If that link has no alternative route, all trains cannot be operated. Even if that link has some alternative routes, many trains cannot be operated too. Because there are a large number of trains, slot of alternative route is not enough. 81days stop of San-yo Shinkansen is typical example there is no alternative routes.Those benefits or losses can be evaluated by quantitative method. But index of making inter-operability is next challenging.I trust that this study can provide some valuable knowledge to discuss development policy of inter-regional railway network, especially concerning making inter-operability between Shinkansen to existing line.

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今野 源八郎

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JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

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地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

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vol.3, pp.195-208_1, 1973-09-25 (Released:2008-10-10)

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Firstly, the report aims to clarify the importance of the meaning of transportation policy in creating the modern efficient transport network system associated with regional development planning in the socio-economically backward region (Chap. II, III). Secondly, the Paper points out the major items of the comprehensive transportation policy needed in the region (Chap. IV). Thirdly, in connection with the expressway network building policy, the importance of a scientific approach to the route selection of expressway system is discussed, and building policy of a higher standard of expressway, such as parkway, rational land planning, designed to prevent noise and air pollution, is recommended (Chap. V). Lastly, the Paper alludes to the urgent needs of the development policy on safety air routes system to overcome the long distance between the main cities in the region and the great metropolitan regions, such as Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo and Fukuoka. It also emphasizes the importance of environmental planning in building large jet airports in the suburban areas of the major cities in the region (Chap. VI).The main items of the theses are as follows:I ForewordII The Present Stage of Development and Issues in Regional Development Policy1 Backwardness in Economic Structure2 Objects and Tasks of Development PolicyIII The Importance of Transportation Policy as a Development Strategy1 Socio-economic and Cultural Importance of Infrastructure Policy2 Transportation Policy Needed for Economic Growth After Take-offIV Comprehensive Transportation Policy in the Region1 The Need of High Efficiency Networks Including the Air Transport System2 Environmental Policy Including Air Pollution and Noise AbatementV Problems of Expressway Building Policy1 Problems in the Optimum Locational Policy2 The Future Tasks for the Creation of Comprehensive Optimum Network SystemVI Needs of Air Transportation System1 Needs of Safety Air Routes and Airports System2 Needs of Large Scale Environmental Plan in the Large and Medium Size Airports Areas

著者

大来 佐武郎

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JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

雑誌

日本地域学会年報 (ISSN:02876248)

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vol.1962, no.1, pp.29-39, 1964-05-22 (Released:2008-10-09)

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This article gives brief account of the background and problems of the “National Comprehensive Development Plan” which was officially adopted by the Government in October 1962. The preparation of such a plan was already stipulated in the Comprehensive Land Development Act enacted in May 1950, but it took more than ten years before the finalization of the plan chiefly because of the rapid changes in the fundamental conditions of the Japanese economy.The new Plan is supposed to answer the question of (a) redevelopment of overcongested areas, (b) preparation of new industrial areas and (c) reduction of economic differencials among different parts of the country.

著者

森島 隆晴

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JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

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地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

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vol.29, no.1, pp.127-136, 1999-12-30 (Released:2008-10-10)

参考文献数

13

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of teleworking on the overcentralization to a large city.In Japan, urban population suddenly increased with economic growth after World War II, and about 60% of the total population lived in urban area in 80's. Office demand increased with office automation in the latter half of 80's, and land values remarkably gone up. As a result, the remarkable rise of land value brought many problems such as aggravation of house circumstances or expansion of the asset difference. On the other hand, an advance of communication technologies makes dispersion of an office by telework possible, and is hoped that it relaxes city concentration.One of the theoretical subjects in recent urban economics is explaining spatial agglomeration by micro-economic theory. In a problem of this kind, it is important to explain what kind of interaction among firms and households cause spatial agglomeration. Starrett [12] describes that agglomeration in the homogeneous space cannot happen under perfect competition. On this account two methods explaining spatial agglomeration are picked up in Fujita and Thisse [2]. One is a method by (I) externalities under perfect competition, and the other is a method by (II) imperfect competition. Following the terminology of Scitovsky, type I explains spatial agglomeration with “technological externality”, and type II explains it with “pecuniary externality”. Furthermore, type II is divided into (II-1) increasing returns under monopolistic competition and (II-2) spatial competition under strategic interaction.In most cases, these both externalities cause the spatial agglomeration of economic activity. Both are different in the work. On this account it is important theoretically to analyze separately.The model of type I has been developed by many researchers to explain spatial structure in a city. In a model of this type, non-market interactions, for example, communications between corporations or individuals or spill over of knowledge or information, generate the fundamental power of spatial agglomeration. By development of communication technology the same level interactions occur without agglomeration, some merit of agglomeration does decrease and agglomeration power is weakened.A model of type II contributes to advance of recent urban economics. It is developed mainly on the monopolistic competition model (type II-1) on the industrial organization theory, for example, Spence [11] and Dixit and Stiglitz [1]. Krugman [8] shows that agglomeration power of a corporation is strengthened by decrease in the transportation costs between two regions. Actually, preparation of road net is regarded as the big factor which promoted over-centralization to a large city.In this paper, we show that development of communication technology does not prevent over-centralization. The spread of telework or satellite office decreases a commuting cost for households or corporations. Decrease in commuting costs become the increase for income of households and the decrease for costs of corporations. On this account, total consumption increases and some new corporation entry. Finally, the agglomeration power of a corporation is strengthened.

著者

三阪 朋彦 大岩 優佳里 鄭 丹 吉田 琢美 兼田 敏之

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JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

雑誌

地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.40, no.2, pp.511-525, 2010

被引用文献数

3

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The area surveyed was Nagoya City Kanayama Terminal Station, a major transport centre established in 1989, currently with about 350,000 daily passengers of which approximately 70% are commuters. The city built a dynamic commercial center near the north entrance of the station. After the initial proposal and competition in 2003, the municipal corporation established a 15 year fixed-term leasehold and Asunal Kanayama was opened in March 2005 with 60 commercial facilities, a bus depot and taxi stands, and a three-story car and bicycle parking facility.<br> Questionnaire surveys were conducted targeting visitors and this paper describes the differences between weekday and weekend visitors and their shop-visit patterns. The survey results showed from an attribute analysis that (1), visitors were mainly groups of families and friends shopping, eating and drinking on holidays, whereas on weekdays visitors consisted of office workers, many housewives and unemployed people, confirming the facilities attract a wide variety of customers. (2) The higher levels of the complex had a lower passage ratio but events and popular restaurants increased the number of visitors with a marked increase in shops visited, unscheduled visits, hours stayed and distance walked on holidays when, compared to weekdays. (3) The analysis results also showed new visitors were active in 3-Dimensional Shop-around behavior.<br><br></i>JFL Classification: L82, O22

著者

前鶴 政和

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JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

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地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

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vol.40, no.2, pp.413-425, 2010

被引用文献数

6

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate a stochastic differential game of transboundary pollution and environmental policy.<br> We considered two asymmetric countries. The production process results in the emission of pollutants that are added to the existing stock common to both countries. The pollution accumulation dynamics is affected by an additive shock, the mean and variance are known. In both countries, the government controls emission levels. Uncertainty is incorporated into the model through a shock. The stock of pollution evolves stochastically according to geometric Brownian motion. In order to maximize the expected net present value of social welfare, the two governments should set the emission levels.<br> We formulate stochastic differential games that need to be solved by the two governments and derive unique Markov-perfect Nash and cooperative equilibrium solutions. Subsequently, we propose a mechanism to derive the payoff distribution procedures of subgame consistent solutions in cooperative stochastic differential games for the two governments, and are able to derive a subgame consistent solution based on the Nash bargaining axioms.<br> In conclusion, we show how the governments agree to maximize the sum of their expected payoffs and divide the total cooperative payoff so that the Nash bargaining outcome is maintained at every instant of time. Moreover, we show conditions guaranteeing individual rationality.<br><br></i>JFL Classification: F18, L13, Q58

著者

Akio MATSUMOTO Yasuo NONAKA

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JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

雑誌

地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.35, no.1, pp.1-16, 2005 (Released:2007-06-01)

参考文献数

14

被引用文献数

2 1

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This study investigates an economic implication of chaotic fluctuations that are observed in a nonlinear economic dynamic model. To this end, it constructs a nonlinear discrete time Cournot duopoly model in which firms have U-shaped or inverted U-shaped reaction functions due to production externality and shows that chaotic output fluctuations can arise for strong nonlinearities. Two main results of this study are: (i) it is theoretically as well as numerically confirmed that one of the duopolists can benefit in the sense that the long-run average profit taken along a chaotic trajectory is higher than the profit taken at an equilibrium point while the other is disadvantaged if both duopolists are homogeneous; (ii) it is verified with numerical simulations that both duopolists can benefit from chaotic trajectories if they are heterogenous.

著者

原 勲

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JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

雑誌

地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.30, no.3, pp.147-158, 2000-12-31 (Released:2008-10-10)

参考文献数

15

被引用文献数

1 1

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1. Definition of Interregional Payment BalancesIn general, International Balance of Payments is composed by both of Current account and, Capital and Financial Account under definition of International Monetary Fund. Current account is composed by Goods and services, Income and Current transfers. On the other hand, Capital and Financial Account is shown by Financial Account which is composed by Direct investment, Portfolio investment, Other investment and Capital Account. Domestic Payment Balances are also shown by application of the factors as well as International Payment Balances. It should be really explained “Interregional Payment Balances (IPB)” like presenting in the next paragraph. In Japan, one of IPB has been presented by the Agency of Economic Planning as “each exports and each imports of 47 prefectures” in every year. Another one has been presented by the Ministry of the International Trade and Industry as “Input-Output Table among 11 regions in Japan”. They, however, don't present the Money Flow based on IPB. Really, the Money Flow in relation with IPB had been presented by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) so far, but the BOJ had not presented since after burst of bubble economy 1990's, and not doubtfully, though it had been great important for analysing of regional economies Japan. Therefore, research for regional Economies based on IPB might not be able to attain perfection. This paper is presented within these limits.2. The implication of Interregional Payment BalancesThe implication of IPB was originally described by John R. Meyer, in “Regional Economics: A survey, The American economic review, 1963”, in which it was inttroduced Interregional Payment Balances of trade, 1952, by G. Fruetel.It had implicated Balances of trade among each States of America. In this sense, IPB can be considered that they are indicators of the regional economic growth and regional economic equilibrium as well as the external indicators. In general, IPB will be the surplus and higher level if the regional economy is rather powerful than others. According to this significance, it points out that IPB might have competitive power in the regional economies.3. The implication of Interregional Payment Balances in JapanOne of IPB in Japan has been presented by the Agency of Economic Planning as being described above, and it has been shown as exports and imports among 47 prefectures in Japan. The importance is because Income Level and IPB among 47 prefectures deeply relate with each other. The regression equation of Income Level and IPB in 1995 is calculated as follows.When horizontal line is X as Income Level and vertical line Y is as IPB, Y=90.265+0.732XThis regression equation is a straight line and coeffient determination is 0.5575, which is high in an average. According to above, IPB in Japan can be certainly certified in relation to regional economic power, Income Level, economic growth, per capita production and so on. From these analysing, it has been realized in Japan that IPB of the central prefecture has been great surplus while IPB of the peripheral prefectures has been big dificits. As a result, it certifies the peripheral prefectures depend on the governmental subsidiary, that is, they can't stand on a self support system yet.

著者

原 勲

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JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

雑誌

地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.21, no.1, pp.323-335, 1991-12-30 (Released:2008-10-10)

参考文献数

11

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Interregional payment balances is considered indicator of development and also that of inland trade balances among regional ecomomies, applying the concept of International payment balances.Dividing Japanese regions into four groups-(1) the three megalopolices (Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya), (2) their surrounding areas, (3) the borderlands (Hokkaido, Kyushu, etc.), (4) and the other areas-the defferences in interregional payment balances among the group, which are placed in the order of 1>2>4>3, have been found to have recently expanded, although the excessive surplus of the three megalopolices has slightly declined.Interregional payment balances have positive correlations with the averages of income and the industrialization, and negative correlations with the expenditures of the national finance: on the other hand, the averages of income have positive correlations with Interregional payment balances and the industrialization, and negative correlations with the expenditures of the national finance. Therefore, deficit areas by the indicator can be said to have low standards of income and industry, and be dependent on the national finance. The differences among Interregional payment balances show the “inbalanced” levels of the regional economics.We suggest a way for solving the problem of inbalances, pointing out the great need to reduce the multiplier factors with the following measures:1. lowering “spill-over effect” by reconstructing the economic structures emphasing industries2. reducing “investment leakage” by improving the policies for hightening economic effects of public investments provided by the national financeThere might be specific policies of the government to emphasize on investing in certain areas by casting divided roles to regions, however, the indicator of Interrogional payment balances gives us a criterion on basic judgement for the regional policies.

著者

原科 幸彦 小野間 史敏

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JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

雑誌

地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, pp.199-220, 1989-12-30 (Released:2008-10-10)

参考文献数

9

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Environmental disputes often arise in the process of planning such public facilities as highways, airports, incineration plants or wastewater treatment plants. Especially in the case of incineration plants, many residents are afraid that their environment would be damaged by smoke and offensive smell from them.We surveyed nine incineration plants among thirteen plants in the twenty-three wards of Tokyo and interviewed some residents living around them. From this survey, it was considerd that the recent incineration plants seemed to give less damage on the environment than that of the old ones in terms of smoke, offensive smell and waste water from them. But some people still have bad images against it. The causes of an environmental dispute like this supposed to be closely related to citizens' images or consciousness on incineration plants.The purpose of this paper is to find out the factors which affect citizens' consciousness on incineration plants. we, therefore, conducted interview surveys of both the related staff to this problem in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the members of the opposing citizens' group against the construction. We conducted questionaire sheet surveys in the areas of the two plants, Adachi and Katsushika, based on these interviews.From the analysis of the data collected in case studies, the following three were concluded. (1) Garvage carts have more influences on forming citizens' consciousness than the operation of the incineration facilities. (2) There are two factors which affect on the change of the citizens' attitudes towards the plants. The one is the image of incineration plants held by the citizens' before the disputes and the other is their experiences through participation in the movement against the construction. (3) The citizens' experienced the dispute would have much better images than before.

著者

足達 健夫 加賀屋 誠一

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JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

雑誌

地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.31, no.1, pp.131-147, 2001-10-30 (Released:2008-10-10)

参考文献数

9

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The purpose of this study is to consider the possibility to apply a third-sector railway “Furusato-gingasen”, for improvement the service level of transportation between central and eastern Hokkaido. Most of the lines which were separated from JNR (Japan National Railways-the forerunner of Japan Railways) were reborn as thirdsector railways. But the plans of management to maintain the minimal level of transportation infrastructure had not been discussed enough. The environment of transportation in rural areas is expected to become more difficult after the relaxation of restrictions on supply and demand adjustment in mass transit. The economy of Hokkaido Chihoku-kogen Tetsudo Company, the owner of the “Furusato-gingasen”, is not healthy just like other third-sector railways in rural areas. New countermeasures should be estimated and tried at this critical turning point.The first step was test calculation of the high speed improvement utilizing the “Furusato-gingasen”. We had a result that it would cost approximately four billion yen. We also analyzed the attitudes of the residents in Kitami and Abashiri who usually use railways. As the result of the simulation by a modal choice model, it was clear that application of the “Furusato-gingasen” would be able to raise the share of railway transportation between Sapporo and cities in eastern Hokkaido.

著者

押谷 一 山村 悦夫

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JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

雑誌

地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.27, no.1, pp.121-132, 1996

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The objective of this paper is to summarize an affective measure for industrial water pollution issues in the Philippines on the Model Reference Adaptive Theory.<br>Nowadays, a developing country such as Asian countries are success in modernization and industrialization. However, there are some seriousness of industrial pollution issues, such as water contamination. We can find some difficulty investment for environmental management in developing countries, because those countries prefer to enjoy there profit.<br>We summarize a current state in water pollution problems in the Philippines as example of the developing countries.<br>They believe such investment for environment is not be able to give any profit. We have to realize some environmental damage will bring a some economic restriction. We have an experience on industrial pollution in 1960's and '70's in Japan. We concur the industrial pollution in not only own measure in industrial sector but also some industrial and environmental policy. From our experience in the industrial pollution issues, legislative functions and some investment are required.<br>The Model Reference Adaptive Theory can provide most useful information from experiences as some models, as well as the theories assist to adapt to the developing countries to solve an industrial pollution issue.<br>We would like to suggest that to summarize that re-use of industrial water is secure not only to minimize a discharge a waster water but also to minimize a pollution control cost. It is true that systematic analysis which combined with policy-guided and investment of industries in Japanese experience on the industrial pollution measures.<br>1) input unit of resources in changing industrial structure and changing of environmental quality<br>2) strengthening on environmental regulation due to their aggravation on environmental quality and investment and some affection on economy<br>3) investment for R&D in industry and their effect<br>4) some incentives for environmental conservation and their effect<br>5) creation of environmental business from aggravation of environmental quality and strengthening on environmental regulation<br>We also would like to suggest to set those comprehensive programs from Japanese experience on measure on water pollution.<br>1) Comprehensive program for water usage<br>2) Monitoring plan for water quality<br>3) Comprehensive master plan for environmental management

著者

佐藤 博樹 矢部 光保 山村 悦夫

出版者

JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

雑誌

地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.28, no.1, pp.1-14, 1997

被引用文献数

3

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In order to reduce municipal waste generation at the source, it is important for the recycling rate and in-home disposal rate to rise. With regards to recycling, with the implementation of new systems in recent years, a generally supportive social consensus has formed. On the other hand, with regards to raising the in-home disposal rate, because of many factors that vary from region to region, it is difficult to achieve uniform progress in this area across the nation. Moreover, apart from regional differences there is also a certain amount of user opposition to be expected against efforts to transfer some of the burden of waste management costs to the individual user. In order for policy in this area to make progress, along with continuous development of waste management technology, it is important to make users aware of the costs involved and encourage them not just to consider waste management as a no-cost municipal service.<br>Using the Double-Bounded DCCVM (Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation Method), we have attempted to elucidate the value in monetary terms at which the users, or the demand side, estimate household solid waste disposal services to be worth-services which have been treated up until now as non-marketable. We have also attempted to elucidate factors that influence users' assessment of the benefit value of the services and to what degree these factors influence their willingness to pay for them.<br>According to the results of this evaluation, the following points became clear. First, since waste management service is considered in economic terminology, as a superior goods of high necessity, the amount respondents were willing to pay tended to increase with income level. Secondly, there was a tendency for respondents who actively practiced waste reduction and who recognized waste disposal problems as serious to be more willing to pay for such services than those who did not. Also, respondents living in single dwelling unit homes displayed a lower willingness to pay than those living in multiple dwelling unit complexes such as apartments. Third, the factor of possible extended future benefit from the services (long term residence in Kitami City), proved to have a significant influence on the amount respondents were willing to pay for waste disposal services. Fourth, when the average amount that respondents indicated in the survey, they were willing to pay for waste disposal services was compared to the actual expenditure per household of Kitami City on household solid waste disposal, the former was found to be higher by an estimated absolute value of equivalent surplus of ¥12, 167 per household per year.

著者

赤池 光子

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JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

雑誌

地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.24, no.1, pp.285-302, 1994-12-30 (Released:2008-10-10)

参考文献数

14

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The price of land rose quite rapidly in Japan in the period 1986 to 1990. It was particularly remarkable in metropolitan areas. In this period, the number of the manufacturing industries also decreased rapidly in the ward area of Tokyo metropolis.Based on the traditional theory of industrial location, it can be said that the decrease of number of industrial location in Tokyo metropolis was caused by the external diseconomy generated by the rise of the price of land. From the side of the accrual accounting, it can also be said that the rise of the price of land brought latent profits to enterprises as an external economy.In this paper, two kinds of time seriese data, the change of the industrial location from 1960 to 1990 and the change of the land use from 1977 to 1991, both of Tokyo metropolis, are provided to study the relation between these time series and the corresponding time series of the price of land.It is observed that the behavior of the industrial location channged depending on the level of the land price. In particular, it is clearly seen that the industrial location was active when the level of the land price was low and that the sizes in terms of the number of employee of newly locating manufacturing industries decresed as the land price increased. The extremely high level of recent land price almost prohibited the location of any kind of manufacturing industry in Tokyo metropolice.It is further observed that the manufacturers tended to sell their properties when the land price went up and that they acted quite sensitively to the change of the price level.

著者

小口 登良 星野 優子

出版者

JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

雑誌

地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.30, no.3, pp.123-134, 2000-12-31 (Released:2008-10-10)

参考文献数

19

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Technology transfer is one of the reasons for host economies to welcome FDI. However, quite often we hear disappointments by the host economies as to the realization of technology transfer. In this paper, we focus on the effect of Japanese direct investment in Korea. We estimate the improvement of overall productivity of Korean manufacturing sector due to Japanese direct investment. The over all productivity is measured by the Total Factor Productivity. We estimate the rate of change of TFP for Korean manufacturing industry. We then decompose the TFP growth into three factors, namely (1) shift in cost function, (2) scale effect, and (3) effect of FDI, based on the estimates of the translog cost function.For the period of 1972-95, average annual growth rate of TFP was 3.66 per cent. It was found that during early days of FDI, foreign capital ratio had negative effect on TFP growth. The negative effect became smaller in the 80s, and then in 90s it turned to positive. This may be interpreted that it takes time to foreign firms to operate at full efficiency. More straight interpretation is also possible. That is, during early period, FDI was to take advantage of lower wage of the host country and not a vehicle of technology transfer of advanced production technology. In later years the nature of FDI shifted with the change of management strategy to put emphasis on global optimal allocation of production facilities and specialization at global level. It is important to know that the effect of FDI was not the same throughout the analysis period. It may work as a vehicle of technology transfer as well as tool of exploitation of low wages. In this paper, it was found that Japanese direct investment may have shifted from the latter to former in nature in the 90s.

著者

金沢 哲雄

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JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

雑誌

地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, pp.1-12, 1982-11-30 (Released:2008-10-10)

参考文献数

8

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The purpose of this paper tries to find the causes of congestion in the Metropolitan Expressways and is to find some policies to relive its congestion.First, we examine the traffic volumes and road conditions in order to clarify the congestio problms in the Metropolitan Expressways.Secondly, the paper discusses the causes of congestion in the Metropolitan Expressways with the model of road congestion.Finally, we consider some policies for solving congestion problems in the Metropolitan Expressways.

著者

目良 浩一

出版者

JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

雑誌

地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.11, pp.1-15, 1981-10-30 (Released:2008-10-10)

参考文献数

16

被引用文献数

1 1

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Upon reviewing previous models for predicting regional development impact of transportation investment, the author shows that most of the notable models did not pay due attention to the concept of location rent, despite its potential usefulness and theoretical justification.The author presents interim results of a model currently being developed. In this model, location rent is considered to be a representative indicator of accessibility to various opportunities. On the basis of actural interregional flow data of commodities, location rent has been derived, and its consistency with the observed land value has been tested. The results are a partial success. The derived location rent has been confirmed as an explanatory variable of the land value. But, it has also been shown that agglomeration has an overwhelming impact on land value.

著者

Fabiana FORTE Luigi Fusco GIRARD Peter NIJKAMP

出版者

JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

雑誌

地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.35, no.4, pp.947-963, 2006 (Released:2007-06-01)

参考文献数

26

被引用文献数

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Creativeness is not only the trademark of successful entrepreneurship in a business environment, but is also a necessary ingredient for success and achievement in a complex policy system. The urban environment is one of the places ‘par excellence’ where creative ideas and actions can flourish, if they are supported by smart policy. Urban planning is one of the multi-faceted constellations that have triggered an uninterrupted attention in the literature after World War II. It has in recent years put creativeness high on the strategic agenda. This paper aims to offer new perspectives for strategic development of an urban system, on the basis of creative knowledge management that should induce innovative investment developments in an urban setting. The ultimate goal would be to make the city more attractive and thereby to contribute to urban welfare as a multi-attribute policy objective.The conceptual framework of the paper is elucidated by presenting an empirical comparative case study on Italian urban areas, with a major interest in Caserta (in the Campania region in Italy). The analytical framework deployed in this paper is based on recent multi-criteria methods.

著者

中内 寛

出版者

JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

雑誌

地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.9, pp.77-94, 1979-06-30 (Released:2008-10-10)

参考文献数

2

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In this paper, the growth process of 22 cities in Kyushu region through the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa era is discussed. The main purpose is to analyze the situation in which a city with its functions, affected by many other cities forming the region, could realize its substantial growth.To sum up, in Kyshu region, some historical central place cities have grown steadily since the Meiji era and selected ones, Fukuoka for example, showed accelerated growth in recent 20 years. Meanwhile, other central place cities realized relatively low growth because of the nearby larger central place cities which expanded the area of its influence gradually. Another group of newlyrisen cities (so called Shinko-toshi) grew rapidly through industrial revolution in Japan with its profitable location and resonrce endowment compared with other regions. But in post war period, especially since 1950s, these newly-risen cities reduced their growth rate and many of them declined substantially, losing merit so far as the changed national industrial structure concerned.

著者

仲宗根 勇

出版者

JAPAN SECTION OF THE REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL

雑誌

地域学研究 (ISSN:02876256)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, pp.203-211, 1978-10-30 (Released:2008-10-10)

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It was the construction of military bases that had put the biggest impact on post-war Okinawan society. Construction and maintenance of bases for the U. S. Forces were to give signfiicant and overall changes in social, cultural, and economic conditions, as well as natural conditions, and resulted in the formation of present regional structures of population, land use, cities, and industries.The purpose of this paper is to point out some problematic ecnomic aspects of military bases in Okinawa and give suggestion for regional economic development.