Forest Protection System and Optimal Land-Use Management Policy in Japan

Masahiro Yabuta and Yasuhito Yamanishi
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Masahiro Yabuta: Chuo University
Yasuhito Yamanishi: Chuo University

Chapter 13. in Time and Space in Economics, 2007, pp 239-261 from Springer

Abstract: Summary The purpose of this chapter is to give a comprehensive analysis of the present conditions and issues around forest conservation in Japan. We shall focus on an evaluation of the Japanese forest policy, and typically the forest protection system that is mainly based on the public benefit of forests. We shall show the analytical framework of land use for the protected forest, and then give an empirical examination concerning the enforcement and effectiveness of the forest protection system on a prefectural base. It is shown that there are large deviations in the proportion of forest protection among prefectures in Japan. By using a simple optimal choice model of land use decisions to explain these deviations, some important factors of the prefecture-based deviations of the proportions of protected forest are shown from empirical viewpoints. Then we shall evaluate the forest protection system of Japan, and suggest its policy implications.

Keywords: Common pool resources; Forest protection system; Optimal land use; Regional land management; Public benefit of forest (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-45978-1_13

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