Abstract
Purposes of this study are to clarify 1)the determinant factors of residents' participation for collective management of rural common-pool resources considering the subjective evaluation by the residents and 2)the effect of residents' participation behavior on the accumulation of social capital. Analyzing the piece vote data of the questionnaire survey about the conservation policy of land, water and environment in Niigata prefecture, it is clarified that the determinant factors of residents' participation are the residents' evaluation on the multi-functionality of agriculture, intention for the type of social capital and personal attribute, and residents' evaluation on the effect of the conservation policy on social capital accumulation increases as the level of residents' participation increases.
