Studies on the risk resilience of local community: Towards life environmentalism in a new era

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H03420
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Kwansei Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: FURUKAWA Akira 関西学院大学, 社会学部, 教授 (90199422)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 鎌谷 かおる 総合地球環境学研究所, 研究部, 特任助教 (20532899) ; 林 梅 関西学院大学, 社会学部, 准教授 (20626486) ; 松田 素二 京都大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (50173852) ; 坂部 晶子 名古屋大学, 人文学研究科, 准教授 (60433372) ; 嘉田 由紀子 びわこ成蹊スポーツ大学, スポーツ学部, 学長 (70231256) ; 土屋 雄一郎 京都教育大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (70434909) ; 鳥越 皓之 大手前大学, 総合文化学部, 教授 (80097873)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 小さな共同体 / リスク対応力 / ローカルな知 / 生活環境主義 / 災害

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Through the survey of villages including Lake Biwa coast from the first half of the 1980s, we clarified the environmental conservation power of the “small community” in the development process of integrated development and rural modernization, and proposed “life environmentism”. However, during the past 30 years various criticisms have been made on “life environmentism”. In this research, researchers who established living environmentism have collaborated with new generation researchers and conducted surveys on various “small communities” including Lake Biwa coast in the field. Based on these findings, we examined the possibility of “life environmentism” corresponding to the new era.

Free Research Field

社会科学