Abstract
We made an interview in mountainous region for this research to classify a tendency of the environmental awareness of local inhabitants. The examinees of this research are 24 inhabitants of Wakayama prefectural Kozagawa town. An analytic way is to group items of the environment consciousness and distill the factor of an environment change by using a KJ method and a factor analysis. As a result, inhabitants recognized a natural environment as 4 factors. These are “agriculture and forestry”, “living”, “civil engineering” and “aging”. Also, the recognition that 4 factors related to each other was not almost seen. That is to say, these tended to become one. In addition, inhabitants recognize the change by comparing a regional natural environment with a fact such as secular change of residential district. A formative process of environmental consciousness of inhabitants is revealed in this research. Environmental awareness is formed by being concerned with their living. It is necessary to adopt the opinions of local inhabitants in an environmental policy of recent years. The opinions of inhabitants are influenced by each environmental awareness. So, the process of commitment of inhabitants is important in developing an effective environmental policy. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the way of adopting the opinion that utilized an environmental awareness tendency.
