Shrinking communities in Japan: Community ownership of assets as a development potential for rural Japan?

Urban Design International

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 99-109

  Feldhoff, Thomas ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

asset based community development; demographic change; Japan; regional development policies; shrinking communities

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT; OWNERSHIP; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL POLICY;

JAPAN;

EID: 84872837420     PISSN: 13575317     EISSN: 14684519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/udi.2012.26     Document Type: Article

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