Regional Governance on Forest and its Fringe

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25300044
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Human geography
• Research Institution: Kwansei Gakuin University (2016); Hiroshima Jogakuin University (2013-2015)
• Principal Investigator: KIMOTO Koichi 関西学院大学, 共通教育センター, 教授 (20294605)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 辰己 佳寿子 福岡大学, 経済学部, 教授 (80379924)
• Research Collaborator: Singh R.B. University of Delhi, Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, Professor of Geography ; Das S. Arun University of Mysore, Department of Post Graduate Studies in Geography, Manasagangotri, Assistant Professor of Geography
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: インド / ネパール / インドネシア / 森林 / 周辺域 / 保護区 / 指定部族

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, we examined issues related with "the surroundings area (SA)" appeared by the deforestation process and the setting of the Protected Areas (PAs) mainly in Southern Asia. We tried to examine, the regional history structurally, (2) problems (Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) and land acquisition competition), (3) the structural possibility of regional governance, and (4) possibility of international study platform about PAs and SA issues.
As a result, followings became clearing; (1) after the 1990s, a colony established in an existed revenue village absorbed migrant population, and added to demand for the land. (2) Problems of the trench model measures that the government adopted as a factor of HEC. (3) In Indonesia, Nepal, India, issues have occurred in SA by constructing the PAs system and setting each PAs. The activity by inhabitants is active, but it is difficult to increase awareness regarding the need for governance in regional context.

Free Research Field

地理学