The Wealth of Nations and Regions (Hardcover)

Introduction (Shunsuke Managi) 1. Theoretical and Conceptual Aspects of Green and Wealth Accounting (Rintaro Yamaguchi 2. Global Data (Isma Addi Jumbri and Shunsuke Managi) 3. Subjective Evaluation of Economic Inequality (Kong Joo Shin) 4. VDICE: An Integrated Assessment Model for Climate, Economy and Ecosystem (Tetsuya Tamaki, Wataru Nozawa, and Shunsuke Managi) 5. On Analytical Models of Adaptation-Mitigation Investment Problems (Wataru Nozawa and Tetsuya Tamaki) 6. Valuing the Shadow Price of Forest Stock in a Sustainability Indicator (Masayuki Sato, Runsinarith Phim and Shunsuke Managi) 7. Valuing Shadow Price of Wetlands as a Natural Capital Sustainability Indicator and a Case Study from Japan (Runsinarith Phim, Masayuki Sato and Shunsuke Managi) 8. Developing Aggregated City Evaluation Scores: Combining Objective City Performance and Subjective Citizen Satisfaction Indicators (Kong Joo Shin, Hiroki Nakamura, and Shunsuke Managi) 9. Accounting for Inclusive Wealth of Regions: Prefecture-level Analysis in Japan during 1990-2010 (Shinya Ikeda and Hiroki Nakamura) 10. Trend of Changes in Fukushima’s Inclusive Wealth: A Preparation for Disaster Recovery Study of the Great East Japan Earthquake (Kazunobu Okubo) 11. Urban Development and Carbon Damage to Inclusive Wealth of a Megacity: The Case of Tokyo (Hiroki Nakamura, Shinya Ikeda, Shunsuke Managi) 12. A Disparity in Sustainability between Rural-Urban Cities: An Inclusive Wealth Approach in Selected Cities in Kyushu (Shinya Ikeda and Hiroki Nakamura) 13. Sustainability of the World Natural Heritage Site: The case of Yakushima (Arika Kuroiwa and Kenichiro Kanemoto) 14. Water Sharing, Drought Adaptation and Inclusive Wealth: Implications from the Case of the Sanuki Plain in the 1994 Drought (Kazuki Kagohashi) 15. Disaster Recovery and Agriculture Development in Shimabara, Japan (Eriko Miyama and Shunsuke Managi) 16. Ecotourism Certification as a Potential Tool for Improving Regional Wealth (Yukihiro Misawa and Shunsuke Managi) Conclusion (Wataru Nozawa and Shunsuke Managi)