Abstract
In this report, the examples of the development of the region using the Ecosystem of Satoyama, Satochi and Satoumi have been shown.
In Satoyama, the forest resources are degrading due to the decline in working population and the maintenance needs of the forest are not being met. Some of the methods used to prevent the degradation includes encouraging and facilitating the children and grandchildren’s return to the region. Facilitating the exchange of people from urban area who are interested in utilising the ecosystem is found to be useful in the development as well.
In Satochi area, increasing number of farmland is being abandoned because of aging population among farmers and lack of successors in the region. In order to maintain Satochi and its ecosystem, it is critical to develop eco-friendly agriculture and to develop a network of farmers or group farming system that can develop regional farming in sustainable manner.
As for Satoumi of Tohoku region （where it was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011） it is critical to re-develop marine industry, that includes fisheries and marine product processing industry, which can support the reinvigoration of the fisheries industry as a whole. Current agendas are to overcome shortage of labour and re-development of the fishery product market outlet. Agendas in the medium to long term include developing attract regional products and to increase the interaction of people by utilising the regional educational facilities and functions.
