Abstract
Following the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, evacuation orders were issued for 12 municipalities within the Fukushima Prefecture. In this study, we examined changes in the revenue management practices of five forest owners’cooperatives that oversee these municipalities to assess the extent of these changes. Revenue management environments of disaster-affected forest owners’cooperatives vary with geographical characteristics in terms of individual areas. However, recovery initiatives, such as mitigation measures against radioactive contamination, have become key sources of revenue for all cooperatives. Before the Fukushima Accident, a shift in revenue streams from forest maintenance to sales (e.g., wood production) was observed. However, following the Accident, forest maintenance departmental revenues increased dramatically, primarily due to recovery initiatives; this increased the forest maintenance department’s relative importance within the cooperatives’overall revenue structure. Recovery initiatives have resulted in a rise in total revenue. In contrast, this resulted in a considerable range-of-expansion in annual revenue fluctuation. Overall, disaster-affected forest owners’cooperatives have attempted to recover the lost revenues with recovery initiatives as radioactive materials. However, this revenue-stream shift to the one based on recovery initiatives led to a certain degree of management instability.
