| Project/Area Number |
08041031
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Field Research |
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| Research Field |
Human geography
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| Research Institution | RIKKYO UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
UMEHARA Hiromitsu RIKKYO UNIV., DEPT.of ARTS,PROF., 文学部, 教授 (00160325)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NAGAI Hiroko ATENEO DE MANILA UNIV., JAPANESE STUDY PROGRAM,LECTURER, デ・マニラ大学・日本研究講座, 講師
BALLESCAS C.P. PHLIPPINE UNIV., DEPT.of SOCIOLOGY,PROF., 社会学部, 教授
BAUTISTA G.M. ATENEO DE MANILA UNIV., DEPT.of ECONOMICS,PROF., デ・マニラ大学・経済学部, 教授
NAYASE Shinzou OSAKA CITY UNIV., DEPT.of ARTS,ASSI.PROF., 文学部, 助教授 (20183915)
NAGANO Yoshiko KANAGWA UNIV., DEPT.of FOREIGN LANGUATE,PROF., 外国語学部, 教授 (60148252)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1996 – 1997
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1997)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥8,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥4,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥4,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,700,000)
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| Keywords | labor migration / pioneer settlement / migrant fisherfalk village / environmental change / survival strategy / land conversion / sugarcane estate / commercial logging / 工業団地建設 / ココナツ農村 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study attempts to document the environmental degradation and survival strategies of inhabitants in upland areas. Followings are major findings.
(1) A great number of people have migrated from lowland to upland areas where deforestation was done by the commercial logging opperations for the past decades.
(2) Our rural-upland migration hypothesis is clearly supported.
(3) Although migrants from lowlands start practicing swidden agriculture at the beginning, they intensify their land use once they introduce commercial crops.
(4) Major culprits for forest disappearance are not population increase, but the government policies on forest development, encouragement of commercial logging for the external debt payment, enclosure of public land by forest concessionaires, construction of timber road, employment absorption of logging workers.
(5) Factors that accelerate upland migration are deprivation of land rights of natives by modern system of land ownership, eviction of tenant farmers by landlords, agricultural commercialization, conversion of agricultural land for the development of industrial estates in suburban areas.
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