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This is the first book to present concrete ideas and suggestions for reconstruction and creation of a region after a great earthquake, which the authors of each chapter formulated from their analyses and experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake. In this book, analyses of the reconstruction period and stages of regeneration after a very large earthquake are many-sided and are derived from the points of view of economics, mental health, social business, interregional risk-sharing system, city planning, housing, and industrial revival, as existing problems in the Tohoku area 7 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake. These problems are both hard (city reconstruction, housing, industrial regeneration) and soft (mental health care and quality of life). Several methods of analysis useful for research are provided, such as a means of estimating consumers evaluation of earthquake-proof conversion of housing and a way to capture risk sharing of firms theoretically. Most of the authors of this book were university staffs in the Tohoku area at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake, did research in the Tohoku area, or were born in the area; thus they have extensive knowledge about the region and the effects of the Great Earthquake. For those reasons, the recommendations given in this book are concrete, realistic, and effective in problem solving.
List of contents
Earthquake Damage in Japan and Our Contribution.- Social Business in the Great East Japan Earthquake and Reginal Revitalization.- Urban Development and Town Planning toward Reconstruction.- Earthquake Disaster and Alcohol-Related Problems.- Amount and the Method of Financial Support to Improve Earthquake-proof Conversions of Rental Housing.- Interregional Risk Sharing and Fiscal System for Natural Disasters.
About the author
Keiko Nosse Hirono is a professor of economics at Nihon University. She has served as a member of the Council for Establishment of Universities, Ministry of Education, and the Central National Property Council, Ministry of Finance. She is a council member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Housing Policy. As a housing economist, she draws from the fields of applied microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics. She has published widely on housing market efficiency, housing valuation using the hedonic method, the Japanese government’s low-interest rate policy on housing starts, and housing policies to improve housing quality through policies aimed at providing barrier-free housing and earthquake-proof housing. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Nihon University, M.A. in Economics from Yale University and Hitotsubashi University, and B.A. in Economics from Tokyo University. Her work has been published in acclaimed journals such as Monetary andEconomic Studies, Studies in Regional Science, Pacific Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Housing and Land Economics, Journal of Household Economics, and Journal of Property Assessment Policy. Besides, she has also edited and authored several books.
Kazuhiro Yaguchi is a full professor of economics at Keiai University. Before joining Keiai University, he was a full professor of economics at Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University and a researcher at Life Design Institute. He received his master’s degree in economics from Keio University and B.A.in Economics from Hosei University. In recent years, apart from teaching at the university, he has also been consulting on regional policy for the city of Chiba in Japan. As a specialist, he draws from the fields of urban and regional policy. His wide-ranging research interests include compact city policy, economic analysis of real estate-related regulations. and the economic influence of real estate securitization. He has published his own research in books, which he also co-edited, titled Community no Saisei [Regeneration of Communities] and Higashinihondaishinsai kara 10 nen: Saisei hatten ni Okeru Kadai no Bunseki [Economic and Analysis on Reconstruction Period and the Stages of Regeneration after a Great Earthquake: Ten Years after the Great East Japan Earthquake].
Summary
This is the first book to present concrete ideas and suggestions for reconstruction and creation of a region after a great earthquake, which the authors of each chapter formulated from their analyses and experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake. In this book, analyses of the reconstruction period and stages of regeneration after a very large earthquake are many-sided and are derived from the points of view of economics, mental health, social business, interregional risk-sharing system, city planning, housing, and industrial revival, as existing problems in the Tohoku area 7 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake. These problems are both “hard” (city reconstruction, housing, industrial regeneration) and “soft” (mental health care and quality of life). Several methods of analysis useful for research are provided, such as a means of estimating consumers’ evaluation of earthquake-proof conversion of housing and a way to capture risk sharing of firms theoretically. Most of the authors of this book were university staffs in the Tohoku area at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake, did research in the Tohoku area, or were born in the area; thus they have extensive knowledge about the region and the effects of the Great Earthquake. For those reasons, the recommendations given in this book are concrete, realistic, and effective in problem solving.
