Food Security and Industrial Clustering in Northeast Asia

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kiminami, Lily (Editor), Nakamura, Toshihiko (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, 6
• Subjects: Economic policy.; Agricultural economics.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Economics.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Agricultural Economics.; Economic Policy.
• Physical Description: XII, 282 p. 86 illus., 60 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9784431552826
• ISSN: 2199-5974 ;

This book integrates diversified methodologies of area studies, regional economic development, regional science, and related fields to draw up a strategy for forming the “regional food industrial cluster” in Northeast Asia. This is done by assigning “innovation” to a core concept, with the basic problem of food security as the horizontal axis and the areas of Northeast Asia as the vertical axis. Specifically, the principle of “collaborative advantage” as a key factor is extracted from case studies on food industrial clustering in each area. As a final objective, a practical policy recommendation is presented while the theorization of the industrial cluster is developed. Therefore it is also a challenge to the old and new issue of food security which has been argued until now.