日本的泡沫经济与土地利用变化

自1981年起日本经历了长达10年的泡沫经济时期,经济过热的现象于1991年12月突然终止。这一时期对日本的土地和经济造成了许多长远的影响,这是一个无论从经济学视角还是土地利用视角都非常严肃却在学术上又非常有趣的现象。来自地方的土地利用变化趋势调查报告（1980—2005）揭示了政府政策以及地方权力机构的意图是如何影响土地利用的,不同类型的土地利用是如何响应泡沫经济的,而泡沫经济又对土地产生了怎样影响。本研究揭示了在泡沫经济下人类活动影响土地的一些明显的规律。这些规律非常值得其他国家、特别是亚洲的发展中国家借鉴,以减轻或回避经济过热对土地和环境带来的灾难性后果。

The Bubble Economy and Land-use Change in Japan

Japan experienced a decade-long economic overheat called a "bubble economy", which suddenly ended in December 1991. It left many kinds of long-lasting traces, if not scars, on its land as well as on its economy. It was a serious, but academically interesting, phenomenon from not only economic but also land-use point of view, The analyses of the prefectural reports of the Survey of Land-use Trend, which cover the time range of 1980 onward, have revealed how the government's policy and local authorities' intentions affected land use, how different types of land use responded to the bubble economy, and what were left on the land behind the bubble economy. The study shows some clear regularities of people's actions towards the land under the bubble economy, which might be useful when identifying similar situations in other countries, especially in developing countries in Asia, and in mitigating or avoiding disastrous consequences of economic overheat on the land and the environment.