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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “akihiro otsuka”
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  • Borrowed Size and Regional Resilience

    Lessons from Japan

    by Akihiro Otsuka ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores how regions can thrive beyond traditional agglomeration economies by leveraging the concept of “borrowed size” — the ability of smaller or peripheral areas to benefit from proximity to large urban centers without hosting large-scale economic activity themselves. Focusing exclusively on Japanese prefectures, the book provides comprehensive empirical analyses of how spatial ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • A New Driver of Regional Sustainability in Japan

    Inter-regional Network Economies

    by Akihiro Otsuka ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book highlights the roles of inter-regional networks in regional economies to explore the drivers of sustained regional economic growth. Many industrialized countries are currently undergoing a period of population decline. To enhance sustainability in the regional economy, it is necessary to increase productivity and improve energy efficiency. This book provides new approaches to describing ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • A New Perspective on Agglomeration Economies in Japan

    An Application of Productivity Analysis

    by Akihiro Otsuka ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book describes various methods of analysis for ascertaining the effects of agglomeration economies, which are important for formulating regional economic policies. Specifically, it describes new analytical approaches using productivity and productive efficiency analyses as methods for understanding agglomeration economies. Additionally, the book provides application results for Japanese ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Regional Energy Demand and Energy Efficiency in Japan

    An Application of Economic Analysis

    by Akihiro Otsuka ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book describes structural analysis methods for examining energy demand and energy efficiency that are important in formulating regional economic and environmental policies. Beginning with ways of ascertaining regional energy demand, it describes methods for developing energy efficiency indicators and their determinants. Fluctuations in regional energy demand are largely explained by analyzing ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
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  • Environmental Sustainability

    A Consumption Approach

    by Raghbendra Jha, K.V. Bhanu Murthy ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
    With globalization fast becoming an irreversible process, it is necessary to pay increased attention to the implications for environmental sustainability. However, the so-called environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) argument implies that rapid economic growth in many developing countries should be environmentally unsustainable.Environmental Sustainability addresses this dichotomy and articulates a ... Read more

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  • The Evolving Relationship between Economy and Environment

    Theory and the Japanese Experience

    by Kazuhiro Okuma ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book sheds new light on the relationship between economy and the environment by approaching the issue from evolutionary and institutional economics. Building a framework of theory and empirical analysis, it provides an in-depth perspective on how economic growth and environmental policy interact and historically evolve.Orthodox environmental economics usually understands environmental issues ... Read more

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  • Smart Solutions to Climate Change

    Comparing Costs and Benefits

    Edited by Bjørn Lomborg ...
    The failure of the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009 revealed major flaws in the way the world's policymakers have attempted to prevent dangerous levels of increases in global temperatures. The expert authors in this specially commissioned collection focus on the likely costs and benefits of a very wide range of policy options, including geo-engineering, mitigation of CO2, methane and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Blockchain Alternative

    Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory

    by Kariappa Bheemaiah ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
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    Edited by Bronwyn H. Hall, Nathan Rosenberg ...
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  • Energy Efficiency and the Future of Real Estate

    Edited by N. Edward Coulson, Yongsheng Wang, Clifford A. Lipscomb ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
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  • From Neighborhoods to Nations

    The Economics of Social Interactions

    by Yannis Ioannides ...
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    $113.99 CAD