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Based on the Hearing for the Participants and the Service Provider of the Monitor Tour for "Forest Therapy" at Shinano-machi
Yuji SUGIURA
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
177-182
Published: February 28, 2010
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In late years, to the surge of the healthy boom, forest therapy comes into the limelight. The reason is because they are also good for local promotion. However, the examination of contents and the effect is often found, and there is not the business-like examination. Therefore, I performed investigation to fix it as business. As a result, it was recognized that it was effective to have contents of the whole life as well as the field of health. In addition, let you stay at the small lodging, and understood that it promoted an effect to carry out the communication training.
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Makoto NOHMI
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
183-188
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The purpose of the paper is to develop a method to estimate the number of commuters between any two districts in a rural municipality in application with modified gravity model. I have developed the estimation method, and as a result, it has become clear that the method can show at least the basic structures about commuter flows in a rural municipality.
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Kentaro YOSHIDA, Tomoki NAKANISHI
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
189-194
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This study examines the benefits of green space amenities using choice experiments. Green spaces of Negishi Forest Park were classified into lawns, forests for recreation, and forests for wildlife conservation. These attributes were presented to respondents with graphical and text information. The attributes of a local green space conservation tax and a percentage of native trees within the forest area were presented with text information. In comparison with conditional logit estimates, both use and nonuse natures of green spaces were reflected more precisely on the parameter estimates of three latent segments. It was demonstrated that the latent class logit model could reveal the taste variation of respondents in their park use.
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Maiko SUGAWARA, Hiroshi AIZAWA, Yo-taro ARIMA
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
195-200
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This paper looks at how rural families share the responsibilities of child rearing and how these families are supported by local communities. The present ways of sharing housework, child rearing and farming duties were defined. In everyday life, rural women currently undertake a great variety of duties and roles, and especially desire the ability to balance time for work and time for their children. As a result, men are expected to increase their level of family involvement to assist with both housework and child care. In addition, women require further support from the local community for both child rearing and their farming.
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Hiroshi HIRAI
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
201-206
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The purpose of this study was to examine whether the salon program for elderly can improve individual level social capital indicators corresponding to measures of social networks, religious group involvement, social support, social trust and social norm. The salon program started in 2007. We had before-and-after survey in 2006 and 2008. We analyzed 1606 samples who participated in these surveys. Some of individual-level social capital indicators were improved in Salon program participants compared with non-participants. These results suggest that our intervention program can enhance individual-level social capital.
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A Comparative Study on Local Characteristics of Public Elementary School in Tochigi Prefecture
Maki WATANABE, Nobuo MITSUHASHI, Hiroyuki HONJO
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
207-212
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A questionnaire about environmental education activity on elementary school showed differences of activity in each local characteristic. Focused on utilization of local resources and the cooperative activities between the school and community, typical schools were researched the way of interview and observation. The comparative analysis showed a tendency that local resources corresponding with each characteristic are select and the conference of local community, PTA and administrations act as an intermediary between the school and community.
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Masaya SUGITA, Hiroshi AIZAWA
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
213-218
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We figured out the conditions of securing economic and social functions in agricultural community in which inhabitants of farmers are relatively old, depending on aging of labors, ratio of the labor of agriculture to that of non-agriculture, scale of arable land, and locational conditions of the community. From the viewpoint of active usage of arable land, the community consists of farmers specialized in agricultural management and has a large-scale arable land as it takes advantage of the suitability of farm products for its geographical conditions. From the viewpoint of preservation of arable land, the community should be planned with taking the diversity of the organization and the number of farmers into consideration especially in hilly and mountainous area.
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A Social Psychological Research in East Harima Region, Hyogo Prefecture
Yoko IMAI, Hiroshi NONAMI, Noriko TAKAMURA
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
219-224
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The purpose of this research is to reveal the effects of values for irrigation pond on the resident's environment-conscious attitude and behavioral intention. A social psychology model was used to analyze the questionnaire data to quantify relationship among values, attitude and behavioral intention. The results indicated that (1) both agricultural and environmental values are greatly related to behavior for environmental conservation, (2) the agricultural value is directly related to the behavioral intention, and,(3) the environmental values is not only directly but indirectly related to the behavior. Our study suggested that instead of the agricultural values the environmental values can increase the behavior for conservation of irrigation pond as natural resources.
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A Case of an Organization on Conserving Village Forests at “Yamashirordquo; Region, Kyoto Prefecture
Satoshi ASANO, Satoshi HOSHINO, Yasuaki KUKI
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
225-230
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This paper proposed the conditions to provide Nonprofit Organizations (NPO) sustainable activities from the point of view of financial and human resources. The analysis of the settlement of accounts and the questionnaire to the members revealed the followings. The NPO depended on a debt and they paid back from personal donation. The NPO's events based on the subsidies from the administration brought the financial matters. The questionnaire clarified that many members complained about the leader's policy and officers felt frustration from the activities. Moreover, old officers were worried about the lack of their successors.
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The Case of Kenka Tanabata Festival in Kesen Cho, Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture
Kaori TSUKA, Shinji YAMAMOTO
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
231-236
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Currently, revitalisation of communities is a common issue both in urban and rural areas in Japan. Social capital (SC) has been attracting attention as a key to solve this problem and this study focuses on festivals that are common community resources both to urban and rural areas. The research target is 'Kenka Tanabata Festival' of Kesen Cho, Rikuzentakata City in Iwate Prefecture. An analysis is made in the perspective that new SC is formed and existing SC is reinforced during the process of attempting to supplement necessary human and economical resources within and from outside the community.
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The Case Study of the Seven Forest Cooperatives in Tajima Region, Hyogo Prefecture
Uichi HAYASHI
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
237-242
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The Working Group Leaders in the Forest Cooperatives have the responsibility to accept and raise the new worker. I did the questionnaire to them in Tajima region, Hyogo Pref. about how they join to and think about the employment system in their organizations. I can find the difference between the Leaders in the Forest Cooperatives where they can join the employment process if they want to and ones in the Forest Cooperatives where they cannot join even if they wish to. The portion of the Leaders in the Second Group who feel the dissatisfaction to the current employment system is higher than that in the First Group.
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Natsuki SHIMIZU, Yoshito YUYAMA
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
243-248
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Two biomass utilization scenarios in a suburban agricultural area were evaluated from the points of energy, profitability and greenhouse gas emission. One scenario was energy crop cultivation for ethanol production at idle paddy field which was compared to preservation of the field. The other was methane fermentation to generate electricity and liquid fertilizer which was compared to composting of livestock manure. The biomass use system was divided into stages of production, transportation, conversion and utilization of energy and materials originated from biomass. This evaluation methodology could clarify the effects of the scenarios and remarks.
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Mami INOUE, Masao MAKIYAMA
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
249-254
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We investigated the actual management conditions of kleingartens by the organizations in the rural areas of Kamiya, Fudouson, and Umenosato. Following are the conclusions of this investigation: 1) In each case, a run-up of several years was necessary to establish an organization for kleingarten management. 2) The main expenses such as the running cost of facilities and the labor cost for the manager were covered mainly by the consignment fee from the municipal administration. 3) A way of increasing the incomes of the organization members is to create income sources other than the consignment fee, such as farmers market and agricultural experience.
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Yoshiyuki UCHIKAWA, Kazuhiro KIMURA
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
255-260
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Cultural landscape planning of terraced paddy fields requires dynamic conservation. In this approach, alteration of field plot shape is permitted, allowing cultivation to continue; a dynamic approach stands in contrast to preservation, which is commonly applied to cultural heritages. We developed a cultural landscape conservation plan for the Obasute terraced paddy field in Chikuma City, Nagano Prefecture incorporating the following: I) field plots shapes of Obasute were classified into four zones with different historical characteristics corresponding to the following cultivation-technology stages, (1) the modern stage, (2) the mechanization stage, (3) contemporary farmland-consolidation stage and (4) stage of cultivation by non-farmers; II) these four zones have value as industrial heritages of agricultural-engineering, and we term them “dynamic industrial heritages”; and III) the Obasute field, which commands a panoramic view of these zones, and is recognized as a rare cultural landscape.
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Kazuo Matsuno, Hidehiro Inagaki, Tomohiro Ohishi, Tomoki Takahashi
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
261-266
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Paddy fields used for carrying out environmental education activities for children (PCEEAs) are mostly managed without the use of insecticides and fertilizers. In order to clarify whether PCEEAs are the source of rice pests, we studied the occurrence of rice pests in PCEEAs. The populations of leafhoppers and planthoppers in PCEEAs were equal to those in conventional paddy fields, or were lesser than those in conventional paddy fields. The population of spiders, which are natural enemies of rice pests, in PCEEAs was equal to that in conventional paddy fields. In this study, we think that the populations of leafhoppers and planthoppers are smaller in PCEEAs because of the light color of the rice leaves in PCEEAs. We think that few rice bugs migrate from PCEEAs to conventional paddy fields, since the ear emergence time in PCEEAs is later than that in conventional paddy fields.
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A study of the rice terraces of Kurasawa district, Kikugawa, Shizuoka
Hidehiro Inagaki, Kazuo Matsuno, Tomohiro Ohishi, Takahashi Takahashi
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
267-272
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In order to clarify the effect of vegetation on ridges and ridge-mowing techniques on the population density of wolf spiders, we investigated the seasonal changes in the population density of wolf spiders in rice paddy fields and in the ridges between these fields. A greater number of wolf spiders were detected in the ridges on which the Gramineae
Imperata cylindrical and
Echinochloa crus-galli grew than in the ridges on which the Cyperaceae
Fimbrisytlis miliacea and F. dichotoma grew. The number of wolf spiders hardly changed from August to September in the field where the ridges were not mowed. In contrast, the number of wolf spiders increased considerably after the ridges were mowed, and these spiders were observed under the cut plants in the ridges. However, the number of wolf spiders did not increase when the ridges were mowed at a height of 20 cm from the ground.
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Verification in 6 area of Mie Prefecture
Naoto Yamabata
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
273-278
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Progress of “chase-off of monkeys by collaboration of a whole village” improves three indexes of “rate of chase-off by sighting”, “rate of participation by farmers” and “rate of preventive chase-off”.
With improvement of these indexes, villages which are considered to have promoted chase-off of monkeys made by collaboration of the village succeeded in mitigating damage to crops.
Also, it was indicated that villages which succeeded in mitigating damage to crops by progress of “chase-off of monkeys by collaboration of the whole village” succeed in enhancing their consciousness for countermeasures against animal damage.
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A Case of Fujinomiya City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Michihiko MAMADA, Hiroto TANAKA
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
279-284
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The purpose of this study is to estimate the biomass plant by Fujinnomiya citizens of Shizuoka Prefecture. In recent years, the society is becoming interested in biomass use. Nevertheless, inhabitant's cooperation is essential. The Methodology used in this analysis was CVM. And we have made an impact on the amount of WTP by the attribute determination. A result of CVM, evaluation of biomass use is about 933 million yen. And, inhabitants who have known biomass, methane gas and Food Valley concept were higher WTP than other inhabitants.
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Case Study of paddy Plots Utilizing for a Gravity Irrigation System
Takahiro TAMURA, Takeshi TANIMOTO, Kenji ISHIDA
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
285-290
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This paper discusses estimation of the area applicable for winter-flooded rice fields based on observation of water requirement Observation survey on water use and interviews were carried out in a study area of winter-flooded rice field in Miyagi Pref. The main findings were as follows. 1) Lot water requirement was estimated 5.0mm/d to 8.0mm/d. 2) The flow rate of water in the dual-purpose canal during the non-irrigation period was identified 259m³/s from the observation. 3) The flow rate of water in the drainage canal during the non-irrigation period was identified 19.9m³/s, and it was functioning as a supplemental source and playing a big role to maintain the water level. 4) The range of allowable flooded area was estimated roughly from 0.42ha to 2.99ha.
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Case of Sasayama Basic Ordinance for Local Government
Kazuya KUBOTA, Satoshi HOSHINO, Yasuaki KUKI, Shizuka HASHIMOTO
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
291-296
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In order to help municipal governments which are going to establish their own ordinance on local government, we closely examined the roles of and interactions among stakeholder groups in the legislative process of municipal ordinance using Sasayama Basic Ordinance for Local Government. Various stakeholders such as residents, experts, government officials and city councilors were involved in the legislative process in Sasayama. Our study clarified how authorization procedure inside the government including public participation proceeded and pointed out the importance of the roles played by the secretariat as intermediaries between different organizations involved in the processes.
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Daisuke KITAZAWA, Nobuyoshi FUJIMOTO, Yukihiko SAITOH
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
297-302
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The purpose of this research is to consider meaning that principle and commonness in rural landscape brings to preservation and reproduction of working of production and life. Results are as follows: 1) Even if ground for the plan is a city or it is a rural, the purpose of use in scenic preservation and the formation is same.2) Design codes used for the rural contain the original content requested from maintenance and the formation of the rural landscape.
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A Case Study of Karen Villager's Response to Fragile Political Environment in Eastern Karen State, Union of Myanmar
Ken Sasaki
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
303-308
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As results of field survey, recent political situation in study field and the manner of response to it by Karen villagers who had maintained traditional recycle based society were revealed. The political situation in mountain area was competitive area between DKBA and KNU. That of flat area was stabilized because rule of DKBA was confirmed. The village W locates in mountain area and both groups do not visit there frequently and village system was not changed. The village T locates slope and flat area and the station of KNU exists nearby. The village leader was selected by KNU and permanent organization to correct rice as a tax established by KNU. The village P locates in flat area and few members of DKBA stayed to observe teak. The village leader had to offer houseroom and food to them. Villagers induced one year term village leader system by themselves. This inducement reflects Karens traditional concept of values that lay off burden equally within village.
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An Interview Study of the "Arranged Rural Relatives" Group at Kleingarten Yachiyo
Masao MAKIYAMA, Sayaka KITAMURA, Mami INOUE
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
309-314
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We investigated the actual management conditions of a rural resident organization for the support of kleingarten users in case of an "arranged rural relatives" group at Kleingarten Yachiyo. Our investigation revealed that this organization failed to function because of inefficient planning. The main reasons for this inefficiency are as follows: 1) No one assumed responsibility for the organization. 2) The organization members were not selected appropriately. 3) The role of the members were not appropriately defined. 4) Members who failed to fulfill their responsibilities in the organization were not replaced.
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Katsue FUKAMACHI, Mariko OHGISHI, Hirokazu OKU, Iwao MIYOSHI, Mio HORI ...
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
315-320
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In the rice terrace area of Kamiseya on the Tango Peninsula, the traditional landscape has become dotted with abandoned paddies. Factors that played a role either in the continuation of cultivation or in the abandonment of paddies were investigated with the aim to identify factors favorable to continued use. The study showed that location, easy access and a good link to the irrigation system were favorable factors for continued cultivation. The conservation of the terraces should go hand in hand with improvement of paddy management conditions such as the creation of clusters of paddies with good links to units of the irrigation system.
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Masanobu IWASA, Katsue FUKAMACHI, Hirokazu OKU, Wataru FUKUI, Mio HORI ...
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
321-326
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This study aimed to identify distinctive features of a
Satoyama landscape in the Kaseyama District of Kizugawa City, Kyoto Prefecture since 1880s. The results showed that change was irrelevant in areas with rice fields or common forests, but that important changes had taken place in parts of the
Satoyama landscape where crops, firewood, pottery and other goods for commercial use in nearby cities were produced. It was evident that rather than being defined by the existence of rice fields or secondary forests, the distinctive Kaseyama
Satoyama landscape had in each period and throughout changes in society been a reflection of the process of active use of local resources for daily use or for commercial purposes.
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Yuichi HIROSE, Kenji MATSUMORI, Takeo SHIMA, Takuya MINETA, Kenji ISHI ...
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
327-332
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This study considered resident's Evaluation-Structure for Irrigation-Water-Wheels (IWWs) from the view of various attributes at two areas where many IWWs are used. The study was designed to reveal the best method for utilization of IWWs as evaluated desirable. Analysis of the questionnaire data showed the following considerations. 1) Farmers evaluate IWWs as desirable because they are useful tools for irrigation. 2) Non-farmers assess IWWs desirable because they contribute to good landscape and regionality. 3) Comparison by hometown showed that local residents feel familiar with IWWs whereas non-local residents feel they are beautiful. 4) All attributes focus on regionality. So it is important to consider the various attributes of the Evaluation-Structure before use of IWWs.
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Chikako MASUZAKI, Eiji YAMAJI
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
333-338
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In recent years, local farmer's markets have had a significant influence on the shipping site of agricultural products. This study examines the contribution of farmer's markets to the improvement of the management and planning process of full-time farmers. This study suggests that farmer's markets have been welcomed by local farmers as an alternative shipping site for full-time farmers. This research found that farmer's markets encouraged full-time farmers to practice ingenuity in terms of production methods as well as introduce new products. It is further suggested that urban regions also have the capacity to build agricultural networks.
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Ryo MIYATA, Hiroshi TAKAHASHI, Toshihiro HATTORI, Eikichi SHIMA
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
339-344
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The purpose of this study is to make clear activation factors to make progress of residents' participation for management of irrigation water's multi-functional roles. 16 neighborhood committees composing “Seseragi-katsudo-iinkai”, the organization for management of Inaoigawa Seseragi park in Towada was investigated. As a result, neighborhood committees were classified 6 steps of activation. 11 activation factors to make progress were made clear by the analysis of progress. It was most important of leader's activity: planning the form of management, enlightener for residents.
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Case study of Fukusaki town, Hyogo Prefecture where farmers and non-farmers maintain irrigation canals
Yasuko HONDA, Ryohei YAMASHITA
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
345-350
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The purpose of this paper is to clarify the tendency of local communities to participate in and implement the “Measures to Conserve and Improve Land, Water, and Environment”. The study was conducted across 26 communities in Fukusaki town, Hyogo prefecture. The main findings are as follows. (1) The shortage of funds for the maintenance of irrigation canals and farm roads was an important factor in the participation of communities in the policy. (2) The officials of the communities that participated in the policy recognized the effectiveness of the implemented measures in improving the conditions of canals and roads, and hoped to continue the implemented measures after the end of the policy to foster interaction among the residents.
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Design Case for Levee Vegetation in Paddy Fields
Takuya MINETA, Kenji MATSUMORI, Yuichi HIROSE, Kenji ISHIDA
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
351-356
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This paper provides a developmental program for use in surveys on flowering grasses in rice paddy field areas conducted in programs that include action plans for improvement of farmland, water, and environment preservation. It was shown that high SDR (Summed Dominance Ratio) herbal species were often identified by examinee, and low SDR or unremarkable herbal species before it flowered were not collected easily in the pilot survey. In addition to a uniquely-developed guidebook, programs corresponding to the attributes, number and knowledge on plants of participants were confirmed based on preliminary and posteriori surveys, thus allowing survey programs to be designed that will bring high-levels of satisfaction to participants.
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Shinsuke HARUTA, Yuji SAKURAI
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
357-362
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The reclaimed wastewater quality in 34 treatment facilities of combined household wastewater for individual houses were investigated in the rural area in Ehime Prefecture, in Japan. The results showed that saline concentrations in the reclaimed wastewater were varied in each facility. Temporal and seasonal variations of the concentrations will be relatively small. Under the reclaimed wastewater reuse for gardens, the risks of Ca
2+, Mg
2+, Cl
-, SO
42- for plant growth will be low. However, the risk of high concentration of EC, Na
+, K
+ can lead some problem for plant growth or soil permeability. We should respond appropriately to the risks.
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Hirofumi Kakudo
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
363-368
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To evaluate the effects of water level fluctuations on littoral aquatic insects in an agricultural irrigation pond, I surveyed species and abundance of aquatic insects and environmental factors, such as water depth, length of surface-exposure, and abundance of aquatic plants, at seven plots (50 by 50 cm) on the littoral zone of the pond in 2008. Five species of odonate larvae (dragonflies and damselflies) and eight species of adult aquatic beetles were collected during the survey period. Regression analysis was executed to determine environmental factors which affect for species richness and abundance of odonate larvae and adult aquatic beetles. As the results, the difference of the length of surface-exposure did not necessarily affect inhabitant of the littoral aquatic insects.
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Case Study of the S District, Kinomoto Town, Shiga Prefecture
Yoshihide SHIBATA, Satoshi HOSHINO, Yasuaki KUKI, Shizuka HASHIMOTO
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
369-374
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In this study, we clarified how managerial experiences of community organizations formed individual attitudes toward community revitalization, using the S district as a case study area. A questionnaire survey for residents of the case study area was conducted to clarity statistical relations between managerial experiences of community organizations and individual attitudes toward community revitalization. The result of statistical analyses was then followed up by the semi-structures interview survey to all the heads of local communities. Our results suggested that 1) the managerial experiences of community organizations nurture individual attitudes of mutual help, 2) which then enhance his/her attitudes toward community revitalization regardless of his or her age. Individual affects resulted from the managerial experiences were 3 folds: positive influences, negative influences and evaluation of community norms. Based upon these results, we finally summarized a causal model of how individual attitudes toward community revitalization were formed through the managerial experiences of community organizations.
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Case study of Sugiyama district, Maizuru-city, Kyoto Prefecture
Ryohei YAMASHITA, Satoshi HOSHINO, Yasuaki KUKI
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
375-380
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In this research, we tried to verify the role of the administration to invigoration of a less-favored area anew. We selected the Sugiyama district in Maizuru-city as study area, and analyzed the process which the area invigorated paying attention to the action of administration.
Result from listening survey uncovered that suitable care of administration was functioning as a important factor behind the Sugiyama district accomplished endogenous development. Although "the new public" which consists of various subjects as a bearer of an area is expected in recent years, we made it clear that the role of administration is still important.
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Questionnaire Survey for Communities Involved in the Agricultural and Rural Resource Management Project
Shogo NAKAMURA, Satoshi HOSHINO, Shizuka HASHIMOTO, Yasuaki KUKI
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
381-386
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There are growing concerns among governments both local and central on the role of local communities in policy implementations and public works projects. In this study, we tried to identify what aspects of local communities would enhance Agricultural and Rural Development Projects implemented by governments. Using agricultural and rural resource management project as a case study, questionnaire survey was employed to identify the relation between project performance and communities with abundant experiences and high engagement in community activities. Our analyses clarified that the importance of developing communities' experiences of project involvement to effectively cope with new programs.
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Tadao Yamamoto, Tetuaki Nagasawa
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
387-392
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There is a demand for cooperation with farmers and local residents to maintain the irrigation and drainage facilities. In this study, we analyzed and evaluated the factor of local residents' participation in the maintenance works of irrigation and drainage facilities, using a questionnaire survey.
As a result, we found that these are important to notify the works, to explain about the multi-purpose function of these facilities, and to plan the appropriate operation work for promoting local residents participate in the irrigation and drainage facilities' maintenance works.
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Hirofumi OKUMURA, Yasuaki KUKI, Emi TAKEYAMA, Satoshi HOSHINO
2010 Volume 28 Issue Special_Issue Pages
393-398
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This paper verified effects of improved countermeasures to decrease agricultural damage caused by wildlife. A paddy farming community in southern Wakayama Prefecture was chosen as a study area, and camera traps were carried out to compare number of mammals which came to farmland. Results of camera traps and agricultural damage records by residents turned out managing abandoned farmland and moving electric fences to natural levee were effective.
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