Peter Matanle
Biographic Data
| ID | 279193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Matanle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Matanle |
| SIGNATURE | MATANLE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8600-3856 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Changes in Japan's food consumption footprints under human depopulation
Population growth debates often posit that depopulation would reduce ecological strains. We explore that premise through the case of Japan, where population decline coincides with rising affluence, dietary change, and growing dependence on food imports. Using environmentally-extended multi-regional input-output analysis, we examine changes in Japan’s food-system footprints between 2008-2022 and apply decomposition analysis to identify key drivers…
Does Human Depopulation Reduce Resource Consumption? Evidence from Anthropocene Japan
Humanity’s deepening strain on Earth systems has sparked widespread discussion of an “Anthropocene crisis,” often attributed to overpopulation. This raises the question: if overpopulation underpins the crisis, does its resolution lie in depopulation? Here, we examine the effects of Japan’s ongoing depopulation on the nexus of population, economy, cropland use, food, water, and energy. We take a systematic Bayesian approach to examine changes in t…
Biodiversity change under human depopulation in Japan
Global studies consistently highlight a direct relationship between habitat and species losses, and human population and economic growth. Nevertheless, countries are experiencing below-replacement human fertility and starting to depopulate; among these countries, Japan is a global forerunner. To better understand whether human depopulation automatically yields environmentally restorative outcomes, we examine the impacts of human depopulation on a…
International mobility for early career academics
Career formation in professional occupations is heavily influenced by national institutional contexts. In common with many professions, however, in academia international exposure is attractive to employers and valued by employees. This national-international dualism presents early career academics (ECAs) with potentially contradictory challenges in navigating their career development. Drawing on multidisciplinary approaches we researched interna…
Confronting the Olympic Paradox
The 2020 Summer Olympics will be the hottest ever; due to a combination of climate change and scheduling them when Tokyo is at its most sweltering. Cities have been transformed, with the Games used by governments to unite citizens behind patriotic visions of national success and project a modernist image of a city and nation on the leading edge of global progress. This is the Olympic paradox-being uniquely symbolic of modernity while also complic…
Imagining Disasters in the Era of Climate Change
Following the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster of 11 March 2011, the Japanese government began constructing a series of 440 seawalls along the north-eastern coast of Honshu. Cumulatively measuring 394.2km, they are designed to defend coastal communities against tsunami that frequently strike the region. We present a case study of the new seawall in Tarō, Iwate Prefecture, which had previously constructed massive sea defen…
The Aftermath of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
The Aftermath of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: Living among the Rubble." Japanese Studies, 37(3), pp. 395–396
Towards an Asia-Pacific 'Depopulation Dividend' in the 21st Century Regional Growth and Shrinkage in Japan and New Zealand
Japan is shrinking. Current projections indicate a population decrease of around one quarter by mid-century. Depopulation is potentially good news, providing opportunities for reconfiguring living conditions and alleviating human-environmental pressures. Nevertheless, ageing and depopulation have outcomes that require adjustment. One of these is spatial inequalities, which have been accelerating since the 1990s. Japan is the Asia-Pacific's pionee…
British responses to the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster
"British responses to the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster." Japan Forum, 28(3), pp. 362–363
Do I stay or do I go now? A researcher's response to the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster
11 March 2011 was a beautiful spring day in Kyoto. In the morning I cycled to my office to continue writing up a book chapter I was preparing on lifetime employment in Japan. Then, around lunchtime
Popular Culture and Workplace Gendering among Varieties of Capitalism
Female empowerment is a prerequisite for a just and sustainable developed society. Being the most developed non‐western country, J apan offers an instructive window onto concerns about gender worldwide. Although overall gender equality is advancing in J apan, difficulties remain, especially in achieving equality in the workplace. We draw on theories of ontological commitment and the psychology of fiction to critically analyse the role of popular …
Coming Soon to a City Near You! Learning to Live 'Beyond Growth' in Japan's Shrinking Regions
This article analyses rural depopulation in Japan and its implications by means of a case study of Niigata Prefecture and Sado Island. In the first part of the article, we present population maps to show that rural demographic shrinkage is both deepening as well as broadening to include urban centres. We focus initially on Niigata Prefecture in the national context and then discuss migratory patterns in Sado. The data show that Sado, and now Niig…
Introduction
Japan is in the midst of a quiet, though profound, transformation. Some time between 2005 and 2010 the country's population began to shrink and—although history has an unerring, and unnerving, habit of delivering unexpected outcomes—based on current trends, the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research projects that the nation will continue to decline in size at a rate of approximately 800,000 people per year between 2010 and …
Men Under Pressure
In this paper we analyse representations of the Japanese salaryman and Japanese organization in Japanese manga, or graphic novels, during the turbulent decades from the mid-1980s to the present day. We argue that manga presents salarymen protagonists in a sympathetic yet not uncritical light, and that it displays support for and criticism of both the Japanese and American organizational models. In addition, we describe how these manga offer impor…
Perspectives on Work, Employment and Society in Japan
The habit of a lifetime? Japanese and British university students' attitudes to permanent employment
This article presents analysis from a social constructionist perspective of data collected from British and Japanese university students on the desirability of lifetime employment at a single organisation. The article emphasises two related processes and in so doing helps to account for the diversity of employment structures both between and within the two countries as well as the persistence of lifetime employment in Japan. First, it shows that …
Perspectives on Work, Employment and Society in Japan
Popular Culture and Workplace Gendering among Varieties of Capitalism
Female empowerment is a prerequisite for a just and sustainable developed society. Being the most developed non‐western country, J apan offers an instructive window onto concerns about gender worldwide. Although overall gender equality is advancing in J apan, difficulties remain, especially in achieving equality in the workplace. We draw on theories of ontological commitment and the psychology of fiction to critically analyse the role of popular …
Biodiversity change under human depopulation in Japan
Global studies consistently highlight a direct relationship between habitat and species losses, and human population and economic growth. Nevertheless, countries are experiencing below-replacement human fertility and starting to depopulate; among these countries, Japan is a global forerunner. To better understand whether human depopulation automatically yields environmentally restorative outcomes, we examine the impacts of human depopulation on a…
Towards an Asia-Pacific 'Depopulation Dividend' in the 21st Century Regional Growth and Shrinkage in Japan and New Zealand
Japan is shrinking. Current projections indicate a population decrease of around one quarter by mid-century. Depopulation is potentially good news, providing opportunities for reconfiguring living conditions and alleviating human-environmental pressures. Nevertheless, ageing and depopulation have outcomes that require adjustment. One of these is spatial inequalities, which have been accelerating since the 1990s. Japan is the Asia-Pacific's pionee…
The habit of a lifetime? Japanese and British university students' attitudes to permanent employment
This article presents analysis from a social constructionist perspective of data collected from British and Japanese university students on the desirability of lifetime employment at a single organisation. The article emphasises two related processes and in so doing helps to account for the diversity of employment structures both between and within the two countries as well as the persistence of lifetime employment in Japan. First, it shows that …
Perspectives on Work, Employment and Society in Japan
The habit of a lifetime? Japanese and British university students' attitudes to permanent employment
This article presents analysis from a social constructionist perspective of data collected from British and Japanese university students on the desirability of lifetime employment at a single organisation. The article emphasises two related processes and in so doing helps to account for the diversity of employment structures both between and within the two countries as well as the persistence of lifetime employment in Japan. First, it shows that …
Men Under Pressure
In this paper we analyse representations of the Japanese salaryman and Japanese organization in Japanese manga, or graphic novels, during the turbulent decades from the mid-1980s to the present day. We argue that manga presents salarymen protagonists in a sympathetic yet not uncritical light, and that it displays support for and criticism of both the Japanese and American organizational models. In addition, we describe how these manga offer impor…
Coming Soon to a City Near You! Learning to Live 'Beyond Growth' in Japan's Shrinking Regions
This article analyses rural depopulation in Japan and its implications by means of a case study of Niigata Prefecture and Sado Island. In the first part of the article, we present population maps to show that rural demographic shrinkage is both deepening as well as broadening to include urban centres. We focus initially on Niigata Prefecture in the national context and then discuss migratory patterns in Sado. The data show that Sado, and now Niig…
Introduction
Japan is in the midst of a quiet, though profound, transformation. Some time between 2005 and 2010 the country's population began to shrink and—although history has an unerring, and unnerving, habit of delivering unexpected outcomes—based on current trends, the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research projects that the nation will continue to decline in size at a rate of approximately 800,000 people per year between 2010 and …
Popular Culture and Workplace Gendering among Varieties of Capitalism
Female empowerment is a prerequisite for a just and sustainable developed society. Being the most developed non‐western country, J apan offers an instructive window onto concerns about gender worldwide. Although overall gender equality is advancing in J apan, difficulties remain, especially in achieving equality in the workplace. We draw on theories of ontological commitment and the psychology of fiction to critically analyse the role of popular …
British responses to the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster
"British responses to the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster." Japan Forum, 28(3), pp. 362–363
Do I stay or do I go now? A researcher's response to the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster
11 March 2011 was a beautiful spring day in Kyoto. In the morning I cycled to my office to continue writing up a book chapter I was preparing on lifetime employment in Japan. Then, around lunchtime
The Aftermath of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
The Aftermath of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: Living among the Rubble." Japanese Studies, 37(3), pp. 395–396
Towards an Asia-Pacific 'Depopulation Dividend' in the 21st Century Regional Growth and Shrinkage in Japan and New Zealand
Japan is shrinking. Current projections indicate a population decrease of around one quarter by mid-century. Depopulation is potentially good news, providing opportunities for reconfiguring living conditions and alleviating human-environmental pressures. Nevertheless, ageing and depopulation have outcomes that require adjustment. One of these is spatial inequalities, which have been accelerating since the 1990s. Japan is the Asia-Pacific's pionee…
Imagining Disasters in the Era of Climate Change
Following the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster of 11 March 2011, the Japanese government began constructing a series of 440 seawalls along the north-eastern coast of Honshu. Cumulatively measuring 394.2km, they are designed to defend coastal communities against tsunami that frequently strike the region. We present a case study of the new seawall in Tarō, Iwate Prefecture, which had previously constructed massive sea defen…
Confronting the Olympic Paradox
The 2020 Summer Olympics will be the hottest ever; due to a combination of climate change and scheduling them when Tokyo is at its most sweltering. Cities have been transformed, with the Games used by governments to unite citizens behind patriotic visions of national success and project a modernist image of a city and nation on the leading edge of global progress. This is the Olympic paradox-being uniquely symbolic of modernity while also complic…
International mobility for early career academics
Career formation in professional occupations is heavily influenced by national institutional contexts. In common with many professions, however, in academia international exposure is attractive to employers and valued by employees. This national-international dualism presents early career academics (ECAs) with potentially contradictory challenges in navigating their career development. Drawing on multidisciplinary approaches we researched interna…
Biodiversity change under human depopulation in Japan
Global studies consistently highlight a direct relationship between habitat and species losses, and human population and economic growth. Nevertheless, countries are experiencing below-replacement human fertility and starting to depopulate; among these countries, Japan is a global forerunner. To better understand whether human depopulation automatically yields environmentally restorative outcomes, we examine the impacts of human depopulation on a…
Changes in Japan's food consumption footprints under human depopulation
Population growth debates often posit that depopulation would reduce ecological strains. We explore that premise through the case of Japan, where population decline coincides with rising affluence, dietary change, and growing dependence on food imports. Using environmentally-extended multi-regional input-output analysis, we examine changes in Japan’s food-system footprints between 2008-2022 and apply decomposition analysis to identify key drivers…
Does Human Depopulation Reduce Resource Consumption? Evidence from Anthropocene Japan
Humanity’s deepening strain on Earth systems has sparked widespread discussion of an “Anthropocene crisis,” often attributed to overpopulation. This raises the question: if overpopulation underpins the crisis, does its resolution lie in depopulation? Here, we examine the effects of Japan’s ongoing depopulation on the nexus of population, economy, cropland use, food, water, and energy. We take a systematic Bayesian approach to examine changes in t…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Geology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (3 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works)