2024 Volume 80 Issue 26 Article ID: 24-26011
This study targeted Okoppe Town, Hokkaido, and proposed and implemented a method to create a "Regional Resource Circulation Map" that expresses resource circulation within the region through direct interviews with local companies. We were able to visualize the structure of the resource items that enter each industry, where they come from within the town or outside the town, and where the resources go from that industry. Additionally, we were able to visualize not only the micro-level movement of resources in each industry, but also the macro-level resource circulation structure of the town as a whole. Furthermore, network analysis such as centrality index and cluster detection which is one of the objective evaluation indicator revealed that the current regional resource circulation structure of Okoppe Town is characterized by a well-developed dairy-related value chain, and that multiple resource circulations are occurring centered on BGP.
