Green Infrastructure Management for Children's Ecological learning

2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K23341
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: :Education and related fields
• Research Institution: Kyushu Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Sudo Tomomi 九州工業大学, 大学院工学研究院, 助教 (60847797)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-08-30 – 2021-03-31
• Keywords: 子ども / 生態系サービス / 自然体験 / 環境学習 / グリーンインフラ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study focus on how natural environment and green infrastructure in cities can provide experiences and learning for children. Study site is Tobata-ward, Kitakyushu city, Fukuoka, Japan. A questioner survey for children in four primary schools was conducted to know where children contact with nature. And environmental learning program children in an university campus for preschool was planned and implemented to evaluate value and functions of the campus natural environment for preschool education. From the result, the most popular place for children to contact with nature is parks. These parks are located in 2 km from their school. The environmental learning program in the university campus for preschool children could provide an experience to observe Parus minor. Green spaces such as the university campus would provide new ecosystem services for local residents by recognition of natural resources and building a system for utilization.

Free Research Field

環境マネジメント

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、子どもと教育者の立場から、都市のグリーンインフラの機能について調査・研究した。都市化により身近な自然環境が減少し、直接的自然体験を基礎としたさまざまな活動の実践が困難である状況の中、グリーンインフラが持ち得る環境教育の機能をどのように発揮させるか、また、グリーンインフラにどのように子どもの利用機能を位置付けるか、という課題は、自然環境を保全しながら、子どもの教育のために活用していくことで、自然共生型の環境形成に貢献する。