Transition of Forest Industry Agglomeration

About Adaptations to Market changes and New Policies

Abstract

Big switch is taking place in forestry in Japan after 2000. It is caused by changes of the house market and becomes a large scale of the circulation and the processing of the wood and progresses to efficiency of the log production. How will such policies and the changes of the market associate with the " durability" of the mountain village? It is hoped that forestry-related industry becomes the economic base of the mountain village while a domestic forest resource greets a maturity stage. At first, in new policy, effective forestry management realization is aimed at. However, there are many areas that lost vitality because they did not cope with the last change of the wood market enough. In this report, I take up Kashimo District, Gifu Prefecture as a conventional area and Sumida Town, Iwate Prefecture, as a model area of the new policy. And I will examine the for difference of both areas to the last change of the wood market. Both are the areas that showed constant "durability" characteristics in population.