2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A sociological study on a relationship between the resilience for an environmental change and its memory.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22530575
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Sociology
Research Institution	Tokyo City University
Principal Investigator	OTSUKA Yoshiki 東京都市大学, 環境情報学部, 教授 (10320011)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	環境 / 公害
Research Abstract	A relationship between resilience of local communities and social conventions that have accumulated in the communities was examined through the perspective of historical sociology with a case study on Yaeyama Islands after the experience of the Meiwa Tsunami in 1771. It was suggested that an inconsistency between the immigration policy of peasants by the Ryukyu government and social conventions on the land usage in Yaeyama Island had caused virulence of the malaria disease, which had led to social stagnation of the area over 140 years after the Tsunami.

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