Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan
Online ISSN : 2185-0593
Print ISSN : 0916-0647
ISSN-L : 0916-0647
A Study on Community Organization as "Actor Providing Community Service and Improving Community Environment "
A Case of Community Improvement Committee of Nabari City, Mie Prefecture
Kenjiro MatsuuraKana YabuzakiMasuro Urayama
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2008 Volume 43.3 Pages 511-516

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This paper aims to clarify results and problems of Community Improvement and condition of community organization as an ""actor providing community service and improving community environment"", by analyzing Community Improvement Committees of Nabari City, Mie Prefecture. Findings are as follows: 1) community organizations started to improve community living conditions by community empowerment policy of Nabari City. 2) This empowerment policy allows them to distribute their budget freely. 3) But there are some difficulties to manage providing community service and improving community environment. Because the budget is distributed according with population; budget amount of less population organization is smaller. 4) There is no cooperation system between them. 5) It is required to cooperate with volunteer groups to carry out their projects, and to execute profitable projects such as community business to retain more budgets.
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