2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Clarification of Rural Improvement Plan for Aging Rural Areas
| Project/Area Number |
16580198
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Irrigation, drainage and rural engineering/Rural planning
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| Research Institution | Ehime University |
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Principal Investigator |
MATSUO Yoshio Ehime Univ., Fac.of Agriculture, Professor, 農学部, 教授 (10150327)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2006
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| Keywords | Farmland / Farm Road / Waterway / Area Management / Sustainable Land Use / Newspaper Article |
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| Research Abstract |
"Elucidation of the spatial improvement problem by the type of the place of the senior farmers activity" : I approached the aging problem from viewpoints such as production activity, safety, the social participation and clarified the improvement problem of the activity place of the senior farmers. I extracted a problem in activity space of a farm, a farm road and a waterway relating to agricultural production.
"Elucidation of the production activity environment of the senior farmer and the improvement plan" : By survey data about the aging farm village maintenance, I separated issue of aging matters in the maintenance spot about agricultural production space, a farm, a farm road and a waterway. I clarified the improvement hard measures from survey findings and, about the soft measures, such as effective use of the information technology in the farm villages for health care or the emergency call, city interchange for outside support. Re-productivity of "HITO", "MONO" and "KOTO" of the ru
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ral area and a viewpoint and necessity of the rural area management were pointed out, in continuation of the production activity of the senior farmers.
"Elucidation of rural improvement plan in aging farm villages and measures to derivative problems" : On diagnosis and measures from the viewpoint of the production activity space, I examined the actual situation and measures by mountain villages, hilly villages and urban fringe villages. I extracted and arranged viewpoints such as the access improvement to the associated facilities in a mountain village, the labor saving or the safety consideration as farm road turn methods in agricultural land consolidation in a hilly, the facilities barrier-free in an urban fringe for urban senior citizen interchange. I examined a concept of the rural improvement plan and showed "the rural environmental richness and the continuance of the farm village society" to live together with cities or nature, and arranged a point at issue, including the point of view of the information technology in the farm village and its practical use. In addition, the keywords appeared frequently in an article by a newspaper article database for recent 23 years extracted and arranged. I rearranged the keywords of a problem and measures by the number of appearance at the same time. Based on the article structure, it was clarified that there was the chain structure of a problem for the farm village aging by the main keyword and measures and pointed out the necessity to be cut off the chain of the effect obstruction problem of measures and a new problem derived from measures. Finally, I showed the necessity of the approach by the point of view of the sustainable land use, for area management of the aging farm village. Less
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Research Products
(26 results)
