抄録
The purpose of this paper is to present a sociological method of measuring effects caused by the regional development works and to propose the indicies for assessing the social and cultural influence of those works. As the examples, we take up the erection of Pilot Farm for the agricultural reclamation work and the construction of Kanayama Lake for the multipurpose reservoir establishment, both in Hokkaido.
In Japan, at the early stage of regional development after the war, the method of cost-benefit-ratio analysis was popular as the sole one, however, at present, the technology assessment method is developed for the measurement of pollution caused by many kinds of development works. Those methods concern mostly to economics and technology.
Here, we would like to propose a sociological scheme to analyse and evaluate the social change due to the regional development works.
Before discussing the indicies, we classified the effects from those works into eight patterns in accordance with time and space, inhalt and form, ends and means, and partial and over-all, because nuch indicies should be applied to the real situation of each development work.
Thus, we decided the following five indicies for measuring these effffects.
(1) mobility
(2) habitability
(3) accessibility
(4) solidarity
(5) regionality
We can evaluate the social and cultural effects of the development works by applying these indicies in multiple combination.
