2017 Volume 80 Issue 5 Pages 631-636
This research identifies the relationship between characteristics of project and governing structure for hot spring power generation in hot spring areas. The main findings are as follows. (1) Governing structure for hot spring power generation in hot spring areas has big differences in both the number of stakeholders and their role involving management of hot spring power generation. (2) Local resident’s acceptance level for hot spring power generation in the hot spring areas where local residents have the central role of managing hot spring power generation is higher than that in the hot spring areas where nonlocal persons have the central role of this. (3) Hot spring areas implementing hot spring power generation differ in the objective and the influence according to the characteristics of hot spring areas. Based on these findings, we propose a list of considerations in order to review the establishment and management of project for hot spring power generation.
