2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Changes of rural, mountainous and depopulated areas and problems of regional policy in the age of restructuring.
| Project/Area Number |
15520497
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Human geography
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
TSUTSUMI Kenji Osaka Univ., Graduate School of Letters, Assoc.Professor, 文学研究科, 助教授 (20188593)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NISHIHARA Jyun Shizuoka Univ., Fac.of information, Professor, 情報学部, 教授 (30136626)
OKAHASHI Hidenori Hiroshima Univ., Graduate School of Letters, Professor, 文学研究科, 教授 (00150540)
NISHINO Toshiaki Takasaki City Univ.of Economics, Fac.of Regional Policy, Professor, 地域政策学部, 教授 (40208202)
SEKIDO Akiko Gunma Univ., Fac.of Education, Assoc.Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (50206629)
KIM Doo-chul Okayama Univ., Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Assoc.Professor, 自然科学研究科, 助教授 (10281974)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2004
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| Keywords | Age of restructuring / Rural and mountainous areas / Depopulation / Regional change / Problems of regional policy |
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| Research Abstract |
Through the present time of restructuring, in depopulated regions such as mountainous villages and former coal mining regions, they are experiencing very big social and economic changes. Just under the situation our project intends (1) to examine regional policies, (2) to sum up the present actual problems in these areas, and (3) to prospect the direction of the changes and effective polices for them.
All the members of this project have had meetings for three times and exchanged information and suggestion each other.
Kenji TSUTSUMI organized this project and he researched in mountainous areas and had two opportunities of presentation at international conferences. Hidenori OKAHASHI researched in mountainous villages and wrote a review article about regional policy for mountainous areas. Jyun NISHIHARA had positive chances to study in the former coal mining regions and industry-decaying areas, and he also wrote an article about revitalization of such regions. Toshiaki NISHINO worked hard
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about policies for forestry in Japan. He makes much of fluvial basin areas for redeveloping the decaying industry there-forestry. Akiko SEKIDO researched about agricultural landscape, which has a high value for sightseeing in Hokkaido. And Doo-Chul KIM investigated political system of divisions of the national government of Japan. Also he researched the environmental issues around Isahaya Bay.
Our team sees regional functions for daily living and local industry in depopulated areas very important. So social ties and social capital in the new meanings are vitally central for people there. And sustainable development there can be possible by the self sustaining and also by from the outer helps (of/from NPO's or so). In near future national regional policies also have been changed the purposes for depopulated areas self sustaining. But there are a lot of very weak communities and municipalities. Then the regional policies for them must be think much of inner and outer efforts to sustain the regions.
Our project also has constructed database for policies and projects about such regions revitalization and sustainabilities. Less
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Research Products
(6 results)
