シンポジウム：地域学におけるシステム解析とその今後の問題

抄録

Though the concept of system analysis might be understood with wide range or some ambiguos meaning, but it is reasonably recognized that its main elements are composed from control theory and simulation by computor.
Most of the recent rapid technical development is said to be related to the progress of the control theory as well as of the application of computer science in almost every field of not only physical but also of social phenomena nowadays. If we would review these aspects of recent historical development in the sense mentioned above, the system analysis theory developed in engineering should be regarded as strong and robust analytical tool for the mechanical systems as well as for the more extended systems as social and economic systems.
Therefore, regional science, which is recognized as interdisciplinary research, should be strongly oriented to both of the system analytical field of engineering and economic theories in our opinion. Then, especially with respect to recent rapid technological advancement as mentioned above, we have to regard theory of system analysis as one of the most important theoretical element of regional science.
However, at the same time, if we retrospect historical development of economic theories in much longer perspective, it contains apparently the analytical theory as well as historical or institutional approach as well known principally affected by the cultural movement of romanticism.
In the sense, we would like to stress that it is necessary for us to acknowledge the relativity of the system analysis, in the long perspective, in its application to social phenomena such as in the case of regional science. Evolution of recent historical trend shows us that technical advancement in the areas of the world necessitates the adaptation of the other areas more or less in the world.
The areas where are effected by the other area's technological development should have their own prediction and planning for them to adapt themselves to almost completely different technological system or environment.
Therefore, in the meaning mentioned above, as regional scientists are facing with many keen issues brought by heterogeneous cultural composition such as in the case of so called developing areas in the long run, without studying sincerely both sides of historical as well as analytical way of research with respect to the highly technologically developed society as nowadays, regional scientists should be behind the times, in order to present some way of solution for developed areas and for developing areas in the world.