2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Field Research and Assessment of the Chinese Environmental Policy "Ecological Migration"
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17251017
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Cultural anthropology/Folklore
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| Research Institution | National Museum of Ethnology |
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Principal Investigator |
KONAGAYA Yuki National Museum of Ethnology, Center for Research Development, Professor (30188750)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SHIMADA Yoshihito Nagoya University, Invitation to The Graduate School of Letters, Professor (20170954)
SAKAIDA Kiyotaka Tohoku University, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Professor (10133927)
KITAGAWA Hideki Ryukoku University, Faculty of Low, Professor (60360252)
KUBOTA Jumpei Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Research Department, Associate Professor (90195503)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Keywords | China / Inner Mongolia / Desertification / Environmental Policy / Assessment |
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| Research Abstract |
The book The ecological migration as environmental policy in China, 2005 is worldwide the first research report on this subject. To share its results and common understanding with relevant people, we translated it into Chinese and distributed at the international symposium entitled Ecological migration and the assessment in Beijing, China, Sep. 2005.
Here we found many young Chinese and Mongolian researchers had started working on our subject and presented some problematic or harmful cases in many different regions. Those reports created a consensus among the participants on the urgency for the government to reexamine the ecological migration policy.
A following symposium was held in cooperation with the local government in Khokh khot, Inner Mongolia, 2006. A variety of cases presented revealed the fact that local people have been working on the re-organization of their traditional practice in order to use their pasture communally and to keep the ecological balance. This would be a next consideration for policy change.
At the Beijing 2007 symposium, we proposed a guideline for the assessment before implementation of this forced migration policy. At the same time, we constructed a database on this subject in Chinese. In addition, at this symposium we have reached to the understanding that new discipline called as environmental folklore is useful and hopeful to solve the environmental problems.
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