TY - JOUR
KW - Interdependency of intangible and tangible heritages
KW - Internalization of external diseconomy
KW - Kakehashi River
KW - Komatsu Tenmangu
KW - Sen’s capability approach
AU - Y. Kitabatake
AB - The effects of the flood control project of the Kakehashi River on the heritage value of Komatsu Tenmangu (a Shinto shrine) in Japan are analyzed in terms of Amartya Sen’s capability approach. The shrine was founded in 1657, and its main buildings are nationally designated “important cultural properties” such that its historical location is to be conserved by an embankment encircling the shrine. Qualitative and reflective exercises of the shrine’s functionings revealed a new heritage value in which intangible cultural heritage of traditional ritual and currently forgotten memories of political thought were embodied in newly found tangible heritage such as the consistent positional patterns of the shrine buildings in relation to the winter solstice sunrise and to the 15-story stone tower. The article also clarifies the rationale for an adequate buffer zone around a historic place by explaining how the risk of external diseconomy inflicted on the shrine entity’s capability was dealt with in a precautionary way.
BT - Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
DO - 10.1007/BF03353962
LA - English
M1 - 4
N1 - Publisher: Springer-Verlag Tokyo
N2 - The effects of the flood control project of the Kakehashi River on the heritage value of Komatsu Tenmangu (a Shinto shrine) in Japan are analyzed in terms of Amartya Sen’s capability approach. The shrine was founded in 1657, and its main buildings are nationally designated “important cultural properties” such that its historical location is to be conserved by an embankment encircling the shrine. Qualitative and reflective exercises of the shrine’s functionings revealed a new heritage value in which intangible cultural heritage of traditional ritual and currently forgotten memories of political thought were embodied in newly found tangible heritage such as the consistent positional patterns of the shrine buildings in relation to the winter solstice sunrise and to the 15-story stone tower. The article also clarifies the rationale for an adequate buffer zone around a historic place by explaining how the risk of external diseconomy inflicted on the shrine entity’s capability was dealt with in a precautionary way.
PY - 2007
SP - 295
EP - 313
T2 - Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
TI - Sen s capability approach applied to the identification of new heritage value: empirical study on the effects of flood control project.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84919784234&doi=10.1007%2fBF03353962&partnerID=40&md5=3f15fdd548a59b46e32c26df5733f17f
VL - 8
SN - 1432847X (ISSN)
ER -