For the promotion of rural-urban interactions, a plenty of recreational facilities have been constructed in rural areas of Japan. Now, the facility improvement stands in need of“systematization”. In each construction project, composite improvement has already come to be the mainstream. However, in order to produce fully the effects of composite improvement, “regional management system ”that performs environmental design and marketing needs to be developed in view of a set of facilities within the region. For the purpose of putting the system into practical form, it is recommended that rural policymakers should examine the introduction of such an innovative park system as Parc Naturel Regional in France.
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