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| Title | Japanese Smart Communities As Industrial Policy |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 34311 |
| Authors | DeWit A. |
| Year | 2018 |
| Published | Sustainable Cities and Communities Design Handbook: Green Engineering, Architecture, and Technology |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813964-6.00021-5 |
| Abstract | Japan has an increasingly ambitious and well-integrated smart city industrial policy. This policy regime provides ample and growing fiscal, regulatory, and administrative support for the deployment of smart communities, the modular ecodistricts that are the components of the smart city. In addition, Japan also positions its smart communities within a broader paradigm. This paradigm deliberately integrates energy and environmental policy, spatial planning, disaster resilience, export promotion, and a range of other policy areas. Not surprisingly, Japan's smart community projects number in the hundreds and rank alongside the world's best (Amari, 2016; DeWit, 2016a, 2017b).This chapter explores why Japan has an abundance of smart communities as well as extensive policy integration. After introducing Japan's generalized approach to smart communities, we present the representative example of Higashi Matsushima City Smart Disaster Prevention Eco Town. This case exemplifies how Japan's smart communities changed after the March 11, 2011 (3-11) natural and nuclear disasters. Before turning to consider other case studies, the chapter examines the role of crises, policy entrepreneurs, and policy integration in the central and subnational governments. This study of policy making is necessary. The key to understanding Japan's smart communities is in studying how policy entrepreneurs used 3-11 to formulate and implement a pragmatic, collaborative response to a number of challenges. We will see that policy makers believe that smart and compact cities can help resolve a wide range of problems. © 2018 Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.. |
| Author Keywords | Crisis; Decarbonization; Disaster resilience; Policy entrepreneurs; Policy integration; Smart communities |
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