Publications by authors named "Kei Gomi"
Assessing climate change impacts on local communities is an urgent task for national and subnational governments. The impact assessment requires socioeconomic scenarios, including a long-term outlook for demographic and economic indices. In Japan, the National Institute for Environmental Studies developed the Japan Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (JPNSSPs) and presented regional population scenarios corresponding to five different storylines.
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- Land abandonment, especially in agriculture, has significant social and ecological effects, making it crucial to predict its future extent and patterns based on various factors.
- A framework was developed for projecting land abandonment scenarios in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, examining two socioeconomic growth scenarios from 2014 to 2050: low (LL) and high (HH).
- Results showed that under the HH scenario, agricultural abandonment would increase significantly due to a decline in the farmer population, while under the LL scenario, urban and residential land abandonment would rise because of a greater decline in total population, providing valuable insights for adaptive development planning.
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- Quality of life (QOL) is a complex concept that plays a critical role in discussions about climate change, and a systematic review has been conducted to understand how QOL is measured in previous studies.
- The review reveals that QOL assessments differ widely in their definitions, indicators, and methods, with social indicators being commonly used, and many assessments focusing on the livability of the environment.
- Despite these insights, there is a significant gap in linking QOL assessments to climate-related issues; the proposed "QOL-Climate" framework aims to address this by examining the social-ecological effects of climate change.