A STUDY ON CIRCULATING PROCESSES OF LANDSCAPE POLICY AND ITS ROLE ON REESTABLISHING THE BASIS OF SELF-GOVERNMENT

Abstract

 Now that it has been often pointed out that the policy concerned with landscape can have a good effect on regional development, a theoretical study is strongly required to help establish a theory that rationalizes the methodology of policy making and its practice, which lead to a solution of various problems concerned with deterioration, self-government etc. that lots of municipalities face.
 In this study, we analyzed the policy process adopted in Kaida-mura village in Nagano prefecture forcussing on policy information and the related social actors. We clarified the structure of policy process and developments of policy. We then analyzed the changes of the frameworks of social actors' activities and the changes of characteristics of landscapes there. We clarified the structure of influences of policy on them. Then we observed the circulating process of how the framework of a community and its local rules are renovated and reestablished. Finally, we clarified the structural relationship between policy concerning landscapes and re-establishment of the basis of self-government, and also clarified the principle of how this relationship can be generated and formed.