Public policies to nourish"slow"businesses under environmental risks

公共政策培育环境风险下“慢”企业

基本信息

批准号：
16530175
负责人：
SAKAI Yasuhiro
金额：
$ 1.73万
依托单位：
Faculty of Economics, Shiga University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
2004
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2004 至 2005
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-16530175/
关键词：
Environmental risk slow business pubic policy

项目摘要

The word business often associates "fast" or "speedy". However, the concept of "slow" seems to become important under current environmental risks. Doing things quickly requires a lot of resources, especially energy. On the other hand, we can reduce the impact on the environment by doing things slowly, for in stance with the help of natural processes. However, "slowness" and "business" have been considered to be incompatible. The aim of our research is to clarify how public policies can help to connect "slowness" and "business" in a compatible way.We first have case-studied on food, leisure and housing industries. What we observed was the lack of communications between the suppliers of goods or services and their consumer. The information gap creates unreasonable price difference between the "slow" and "fast (or conventional)" goods or services. Sometimes the slow gets lower prices, and the fast higher, and which sends the message that the slow is lower quality.In Canada, where organic food market is performing better than in Japan, the consumers seem to pay more attentions to what they buy. "Slow" business companies are more eager to convey the information about their products or services to the consumers. Regarding to this, public sectors have to offer assistance to the businesses. Another role of governments is to provide guidelines or standards to businesses in certain area.We have participated in many domestic/international conferences. Among them was Sakai's lectures on "the role of globalization and the scientist in Asian economy", invited by the South Korea science academy, Seoul, May, 2004. We have also invited various speakers. In March 2006, Dr.Mathis Wackernagel and Dr.Yoshihiko Wada joined us and discussed how to apply the ecological footprint analysis in policy making process. The outcomes of this project have been published in various journals as listed in this report.

商业这个词经常与“快速”或“快速”联系在一起。然而，在当前的环境风险下，“慢”的概念似乎变得重要。快速做事需要大量资源，尤其是精力。另一方面，我们可以通过缓慢地做事来减少对环境的影响，例如借助自然过程。然而，“慢”和“生意”却被认为是水火不相容的。我们研究的目的是阐明公共政策如何帮助以兼容的方式将“缓慢”和“商业”联系起来。我们首先对食品、休闲和住房行业进行了案例研究。我们观察到商品或服务的供应商与其消费者之间缺乏沟通。信息差距造成“慢速”和“快速（或常规）”商品或服务之间不合理的价格差异。有时，速度慢的价格会更低，速度快的价格会更高，这传递出这样的信息：速度慢的质量较低。在加拿大，有机食品市场的表现比日本更好，消费者似乎更关注他们购买的东西。 “慢”商业公司更渴望向消费者传达有关其产品或服务的信息。对此，公共部门必须为企业提供帮助。政府的另一个作用是为某些领域的企业提供指导方针或标准。我们参加了许多国内/国际会议。其中包括2004年5月，受韩国科学院邀请，酒井在首尔发表的题为“全球化和科学家在亚洲经济中的作用”的演讲。我们还邀请了多位演讲者。 2006年3月，Mathis Wackernagel博士和Yoshihiko Wada博士加入我们并讨论了如何在政策制定过程中应用生态足迹分析。该项目的成果已发表在本报告所列的各种期刊上。