The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted at the United Nations Summit on September 25, 2015 and aim to realize a sustainable world by December 31, 2030. This is an international goal. There are no legal restrictions on companies' efforts toward the SDGs. Some companies have incorporated the 17 goals set by the SDGs into their management strategies, and the movement is expanding as a business opportunity. Efforts toward the SDGs are related to the management philosophy or management purpose and directly linked to the purpose of companies. The characteristics of SDG management include: (1) associating SDGs with company strengths and allocating resources for the achievement of company goals, (2) the formulation of a roadmap, such as a sustainability vision, up to 2030, (3) calculating back and coming up with specific measures from the achievement of this goal, (4) materiality (important issues) set as a medium- to long-term management plan, and KPI (key performance indicators) set to solve these issues, which are being worked on it as a strategic business, (5) information on the progress of SDG management being disclosed on company websites, integrated reports, and other documents, and explanations and dialogues being held with stakeholders.

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The Field-Tourism Course that Aomori University has been working on since 2022 aims to develop human resources involved in community-based tourism, especially utilizing the natural and cultural resources of Aomori Prefecture. In this paper, we conducted a preliminary survey using mind maps and free descriptions to understand how the educational programs in the course are affecting the participating students. The results showed that students who attended lectures and experiential classes in the field tourism course extended their expressive vocabulary for 「nature-based tourism」 toward the post-test, and described technical terms and abstract words somewhat more frequently. From this, it can be inferred that students' understanding of field tourism was updated to a higher order before and after the class. In the future, it will be necessary to consider how to set up and conduct surveys that can approach more comprehensive and essential questions, and it will be necessary to integrate program experiments and survey research.

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The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of ESD in the region through the verbalization of local resources and a workshop on “Ozu washi” in Uchiko Town, Ehime Prefecture. After verbalizing the local resources based on the nature and history of Uchiko Town and organizing the background of the workshop, the results indicated that participants highly valued the process of making washi paper and the local resources, and that this fostered their attachment to the region. However, it remained to be seen whether these would lead to direct sustainability-conscious behavior, and it became clear that further efforts would be needed.

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A complete housing survey was conducted in the summer of 2023 in the Koubata residential com-plex on the suburbs of Aomori City, and the results were compared to those of the 2013 and 2018 surveys. Although the population of this residential complex is declining and aging faster than that of hole Aomori City, the survey confirmed that 170 new houses were built and more than 50 were renovated over the past 10 years. The number of houses in the complex is approximately 1,100, mean-ing that a combined total of about 20% of the houses have been updated. The number of vacant houses is down significantly from 10 years ago. Inexpensive land prices, large lots, and an influx of people raising children have contributed to this phenomenon. However, the increase in housing has slowed over the past five years, and the number of vacant houses has begun to increase again. The creation of a new local community based on new residents is a major challenge for the future.

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