2022 Volume 2 Issue 1 Pages 27-32
The objective of this paper is to formulate the shipping agentʼs behaviour in “Kinoeki project”, one of the economic activities in mountainous area in Japan. We selected the project carried out in Nakagawa-machi, Tochigi prefecture as the target of analysis. We selected this area, because the project has worked with high standards in longer term than Kinoeki projects in other areas. In Kinoeki project, there are four types of agents, shipping agent, steering agent, using agent and shop agent. Shipping agents ship the woods material remained in forests. Steering agents coordinate the whole project. Using agents utilize the woods material. Shop agents sell the goods to shipping agents by community currency instead of money. Firstly, interview surveys were conducted to every agent. And we picked up the problems in the project. Then we did additional research on shipping agent and shop agent. We carried out questionnaire surveys to investigate the consciousness and evaluation of shipping agent and formulate the relationship between their behaviour and consciousness. As a result of this study, we find that we can classify shipping agents to two types of agents. One type of shipping agents ships huge amount of wood, who will consider the activity as economical behaviour. And the other type of agents who ships little amount will consider the activity as social service.
