Summary and Future Tasks

Abstract

The final Chapter 6 provided an overall summary and a list of remaining issues, to indicate the direction of future research tasks.The 2-4 chapters applied this approach to four key issues of the regional economy: the decline in the total fertility rate (Chapter 2), which is connected via demographics to the fabric of social structure, tourism as an industry that interacts with population (Chapter 3), and the sustaining resources of energy (Chapter 4) and social capital (Chapter 5). If the issues in Chapters 3 and 4 meet in a concern for a sustainable environment, the resources in Chapters 4 and 5 also meet in their common role as public goods. For each of these issues and chapter topics, different analytical methods were also brought.It is true that this small number of studies brings its own limited topic span, and I will need to extend my research to more regional problems in the future.