LOCALISING AND GLOBALISING THE DEPOPULATION DIVIDEND: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM THREE COUNTRIES IN THREE WORLD REGIONS

Year 2022, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 1 - 28, 29.06.2022

Peter Matanle Luis Antonio Sáez-pérez Yang Lı Emily Buehler

Abstract

We bring together evidence from three countries in differing world regions to ask whether or how depopulation is delivering socio-environmental gains – what we call a ‘depopulation dividend’. We first discuss the depopulation problem itself and introduce the idea of a ‘depopulation dividend’, and we present research on national and sub-national depopulation processes in each country, beginning with demographic and environmental change in Japan. Following that we introduce socio-economic outcomes in Spain and New Zealand. Overall, we present a positive perspective on depopulation – an issue that is usually presented in the negative – and we localize and globalize Japan’s, Spain’s, and New Zealand’s experiences therein.

Keywords

Depopulation, Environment, Japan, Spain, New Zealand

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