2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study on Systematic Analysis on Sustainable Cycle-Oriented Social System
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14380272
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
環境保全
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| Research Institution | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
TAURA Toshiharu Kobe University, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Professor, 自然科学研究科, 教授 (00251497)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TAMAKI Hisashi Kobe University, Faculty of Engineering, Associate Professor, 工学部, 助教授 (10227267)
TAKEUCHI Kenji Kobe University, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Associate Professor, 経済学研究科, 助教授 (40299962)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2003
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| Keywords | cycle-oriented society / recycling / Indirect Control / value creation / latent function |
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| Research Abstract |
Many studies have been conducted in order to develop a sustainable cycle-oriented social system. Those studies focused on top-down processes, based on the belief that strong restrictions such as laws are effective. We consider this belief to be suspect and that it is desirable to form a social system from the bottom up while retaining creativity and diversity in the decision making process of not only manufactures but also consumers. In order to analyze and attain a sustainable society by focusing on the above viewpoints, four new approaches are proposed : complexity, value creation, indirect control method and latent function. At first, we discuss the nature of a cycle-oriented social system by using the abstract rewriting system on multisets (ARMS) and we found that a system which has a high level of giving great complexity dose not last for very long and there is an appropriate complexity level for sustainable society. Second, we focus on the consumer's value creation to form the sustainable society and showed a method to help the consumers to do the value creation. Third, we established an Indirect Control Method for control the behavior of the sustainable social system using the agent-based simulation. In this study, we shows some examples of Indirect Control Method and verify the validity of Indirect Control Method. Forth, we formulate the degree of Latent Function, so as to evaluate artifact' future comprehensively and concretely. We perform questionnaire surveys about drink containers, in order to determine the weights of the coefficients of the formula.
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