2018 Volume 28 Issue 2 Pages 2_2-9
This study was conducted to examine the possibility of constructing a resilient sustainable society through community development education emphasizing the forest-river-ocean nexus, using an adaptive cycle model to evaluate resilience. For this study, the development process of community development education emphasizing a forest-river-ocean nexus was divided into five phases based on the “theory of particularly addressing the object of exploration.” The contents of the engagements and outcomes of the five phases were organized.
Application of each phase to the adaptive cycle model revealed that "reorganization" and "re-recognition" of the nexuses including people and people, and people and forests, rivers and oceans were achieved. These results revealed development in an interrelated way. In such developments, educators themselves acted under universal values, produced a sense of self-efficacy, and enhanced the skills, human relations networks and interactive trust. These corresponded to relatedness, competence and autonomy related to self-determination theory. This is probably a state in which intrinsic motivation and creativity are stimulated.
In the fifth phase, the lives of people were supported by food derived from the spatiotemporal forest-river-ocean nexus. We recognized the value of that support as the Food Intrinsic Value (FIV).
Deepening the recognition and understanding of FIV through the practice of community development education emphasizing the forest-river-ocean nexus will affect creativity, skills, human relations networks, and interactive trust throughout the watershed region, leading to the creation of a resilient sustainable society.
