Overview
- Includes numerous maps and figures to help illustrate the contents of the book
- Is based on empirical research focusing on local governance
- Familiarizes readers with the importance of comprehensive community support systems in Japan
Part of the book series: International Perspectives in Geography (IPG, volume 12)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Mapping Social Security in Japan
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Community-Based Integrated Care Systems in Japan
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A Prospect of Community-Based Inclusive Society in Japan
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hitoshi Miyazawa is an associate professor in the Human Science Division, Faculty of Core Research of Ochanomizu University, Japan. He is currently a visiting associate professor in the Open University of Japan. He holds a Ph.D. in geography from Tokyo Metropolitan University. His specialties are welfare geography, urban geography, and GIS. His research interests are provision of welfare services and health care services, transformation of urban demographic structure, urban sustainability, and liveability. He has published several books in the field of welfare geography.
He is the chief editor of E-journal GEO, a director of the Association of Japanese Geographers, and a councillor of the Tohoku Geographical Association. He has received the Young Researchers Award of the Association of Japanese Geographers (2004). In addition, he won the Special Award of the Japan Cartographers Association (2010) as a co-investigator.
Teruo Hatakeyama is an associate professor at the Naruto University of Education, Japan. He is a director of the Institute for Public Policy in Tokushima Prefecture and a researcher of the Institute for Public Policy in Kanagawa Prefecture. He holds a Ph.D. in science from Nihon University. His specialties are social geography and administrative geography. His research interests are elderly welfare, the long-term care insurance system, naming rights for public facilities, and local governance.
He is a representative of the Association of Japanese Geographers. He is also the chief founder of Regional Issues Related to the Birthrate Decline and Population Aging of the Association of Japanese Geographers. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Japan Association of Economic Geographers and journals of the Japan Association of Regional Policy, and the Geographical Association of Nihon University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Community-Based Integrated Care and the Inclusive Society
Book Subtitle: Recent Social Security Reform in Japan
Editors: Hitoshi Miyazawa, Teruo Hatakeyama
Series Title: International Perspectives in Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4473-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4472-3Published: 10 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4475-4Published: 10 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-4473-0Published: 09 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2197-7798
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7801
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 376
Number of Illustrations: 139 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Social Care, Geography, general, Sociology, general, Governance and Government