David Edgington
Research Area
Education
Monash University, 1986, PhD
Urban Planning, University of Melbourne, MA
University of Edinburgh, MSc
University of London, BSc
About
Research Interest:
Geography of Japan and the Pacific Rim
Geography of International Trade, Overseas Investment and Multinational Corporations
Disaster Research in the Pacific Rim
Multiculturalism and Local Governments
David Edgington has degrees from the University of London (BSc Estate Management), University of Edinburgh (MSc Business Studies), University of Melbourne (Masters in Urban Planning), and Monash University (PhD Economic Geography). He joined the Department of Geography at UBC in 1988, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1992, and Professor in 2012. He retired in 2017. Before coming to Vancouver he worked as an urban planner in Melbourne, Australia. His current research and teaching focuses on the geography of Japan and the Pacific Rim. He was the Director of the Centre for Japanese Research at the Institute of Asian Research (2003-2009), and President of the Japan Studies Association of Canada (2014-2017).
Teaching
Research
My recent study on ‘Population and Housing Recovery in Tohoku, Japan’ used raw data collected by Communa Inc. (Sendai).
The three tables below show raw data on population, housing in Iwate, Miyagi and northern Fukushima, and evacuation orders/return of population in Fukushima.
Publications
2022
Edgington, D. W. 2022. Planning for Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Lessons from Japan for British Columbia, Canada. Progress in Planning 163: 100626.
2021
Hayter, R. and D. W. Edgington. 2021. Panasonic in China: A Search to Overcome the Liability of Foreignness. Journal of Asia-Pacific Business 22: 58-83.
2020
Edgington, D.W. 2020. Regional Production Networks. In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (2nd Edition), edited by A. Kobayashi, 343-350. New York: Elsevier.
Gaubatz, P. and D. W. Edgington. 2020. Cities of East AsiA. In Cities of the World: Regional Patterns and Urban Environments, edited by S.D. Brunn, D.J. Zeigler, M. Hays-Mitchell and J. K. Graybill, 447-490. Lanham: Rowman and Littllefield.
2019
Edgington, D.W. 2019. Forty Year After the China-Japan Treaty of Peace and Friendship: Reflections on Changing Economic and Commercial Relations. In Japan’s World: The World’s Japan: Images, Perceptions and Reactions, Conference Proceedings, The 31st Japan Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference, edited by A. Fujiwara and J. White, 47-84. Edmonton: University of Alberta.
Edgington, D.W. 2019. Natural disasters in Japan. In Japan’s Future and a New Meiji Transformation: International Reflections, edited by K. Coates, K. Hara, C. Holroyd, and M. Söderberg, 182-192. London: Routledge.
Edgington, D.W. 2019. Comprehensive planning in Japanese large cities. Planning Perspectives 34(1): 115-132.
Awards
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fellowship Award (1997 – 1998)
Graduate Supervision
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