Abstract
This study aims to identify a citizen-based maintenance scheme for suburban satoyama based on the Funabashi Forest Working Plan. Through interviews, questionnaire and daily management records kept by the citizen group, we identified: 1) rationales for local government, forest owners, and citizen group to participate in the forest working plan, 2) the details of management activities, and 3) the amount (person/hour) and efficiency of management. Based on the results, we concluded that this management scheme is an advanced example of suburban satoyama woodland management and that the Forest Working Plan could promote suburban satoyama woodland management more broadly, if it can be successfully applied to other suburban areas.
