Measuring regional wealth and assessing sustainable development: a case study of a disaster-torn region in Japan
Measuring regional wealth and assessing sustainable development: a case study of a disaster-torn region in Japan
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衡量区域财富并评估可持续发展：日本受灾地区的案例研究
DOI：
10.1007/s11205-015-1106-3
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Masayuki Sato and Kazuhiro Ueta
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作者：
Rintaro Yamaguchi;Masayuki Sato and Kazuhiro Ueta
我们在日本宫城县构建了一个区域综合财富作为可持续发展的指标。特别令人感兴趣的是自然灾害前后财富的变化，因为该指数可以作为灾后重建投资的基准。我们首先讨论了财富核算和可持续性分析的最佳空间单位。由此产生的区域财富指数在2000年代已经略有下降，原因是资本资产投资停滞、石油资本损失和预算赤字负担，直到一场自然灾害使该区域变得严重不可持续。这一财富趋势也与《2012年包容性财富报告》中的数字不同。将人口减少包括在内使人均财富看起来更好，由于忽视了发达国家的前瞻性人口变化，其解释值得谨慎。
We construct a regional comprehensive wealth as an indicator of sustainability in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Of particular interest is the change in wealth before and after a natural disaster, since the index could serve as a benchmark of investment into post-disaster reconstruction. We first discuss an optimum spatial unit of wealth accounting and sustainability analysis. The resultant regional wealth index had already been slightly declining during the 2000s due to stagnant investment into capital assets, oil capital loss, and budget deficit burden, until a natural disaster made the region significantly unsustainable. This wealth trend also differs from what emerges from the figures inInclusive Wealth Report 2012. Including population decrease makes the wealth per capita look better, whose interpretation warrants caution due to the neglected forward-looking demographic change in a developed nation.