Characteristics of local environmental movements over resource governance in Japan

• Project/Area Number: 24653115
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2013-2015); Nagoya University (2012)
• Principal Investigator: OH TOMOHIRO 総合地球環境学研究所, 研究部, プロジェクト研究員 (60614790)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
• Keywords: 資源 / 統治 / 住民運動 / 環境保全 / レトリック / 風土 / 環境 / ガバナンス / 周縁 / 漁業者 / 水産資源 / 森林資源 / 天然資源 / 資源保全

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Typical studies on natural resources from a social science perspective tend to choose one type of resource-forests or seas. This approach, however, may oversimplify the intricate social relations behind the resource problem and mislead the premise that which resource should be focused. And from a historical viewpoint, it is often the case that strong protests from the sufferers of serious pollution or resource degradation played a critical role in implementing effective regulations. Therefore, this study pays attention to failures of fragmented approach and an emerging trend of environmental movements based on an awareness of the connections between local resources. Focusing on the spread of fishermen's plantations in the 1990s and the fishery industry in Yakushima, the island designated a World Heritage site by its rare forest, revealed the characteristics of natural resource governance and counter strategies of local people.

Research Products

• [Presentation] A Historical Perspective on Local Environmental Movements in Japan: Lessons for the Transdisciplinary Approach on Water Resource Governance (2014)
  • Author(s): Tomohiro Oh
  • Organizer: AGU FALL MEETING
  • Place of Presentation: San Fransisco, CA, USA.
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-15 – 2014-12-19
• [Book] 臨床環境学 (2014)
  • Author(s): 渡邊誠一郎、中塚武、王智弘（編）
  • Total Pages: 328
  • Publisher: 名古屋大学出版会
• [Book] 資源と生業の地理学（「資源の分配と社会的分業の展開─近代屋久島の林業と漁業」） (2013)
  • Author(s): 横山智編（分担執筆）王智弘
  • Total Pages: 350
  • Publisher: 海青社
• [Book] Governance of Natural Resources: Uncovering the Social Purpose of Materials in Nature. (Fishermen’s plantations as a way of resource governance in Japan) (2013)
  • Author(s): Jin Sato (ed.) Tomohiro Oh
  • Total Pages: 236
  • Publisher: United Nations University Press
• [Book] ネイチャー・アンド・ソサエティ研究4巻 資源と生業の地理学 (2013)
  • Author(s): 横山智（編）
  • Publisher: 海青社
• [Book] Governance of Natural Resources: Uncovering the Social Purpose of Materials in Nature (2013)
  • Author(s): Sato, J. (ed.)
  • Publisher: United Nations University Press
• [Remarks] 研究スタッフ
  • URL: http://archives.chikyu.ac.jp/archives/AnnualReport/Viewer.do?prkbn=R&jekbn=J&id=528