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A case study of the rurban area in Fujieda, Shizuoka
Hidehiro Inagaki, Tomohiro Ohishi, Tomoki Takahashi, Kazuo Matsuno, To ...
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
161-166
Published: November 30, 2010
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In order to estimate agricultural experience on promotion of understanding of agriculture, we investigated the effect of agricultural experience in primary school on the image of agriculture among children. Before 1-year experience program, many of the pupils have poor image to describe agriculture, whereas in the year following the one-year experience program, they get to be have rich image found in it. Further, prior to the start of the program, negative adjectives were observed to be used by the pupils to describe agriculture, whereas after the completion of the program, positive adjectives were used more often. Moreover, junior high school students who had experienced activity in primary school show very similar results to pupils after the one-year programs, i.e. they have rich and better impression to agriculture. Thus, our survey suggests it could be indicated that agricultural experience in primary school help children to understand and have interests agriculture.
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A Case Study of M Mountain Village Life School in Former A-town, AKITA Prefecture
Hiroyuki FUJISAKI
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
167-172
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In this study, situation of exchange between villager and graduates of M mountain village life school and its merits was surveyed with questionnaire to graduates and interview to foster parents, in former A-town, AKITA Prefecture, in December 2008. As the result, graduates often go to this village and meet their acquaintances such as their foster parents, and they are likely to visit this village frequently, but they do not want to settle this village. And foster parents feel some their own merits and good stimulus to their village.
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Takao SASAKI, Kazushi SANO, Mitsuaki KAWABATA, Masahiro KAJI
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
173-178
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This study aims to make clear characteristics of vacant house owners who have intentions to offer their houses and conditions that the owners request for persons who want to buy them and to immigrate to their hometowns. We conducted a survey of vacant house owners in Iiyama and Uonuma city. By a discriminant analysis, it was made clear that vacant house owners who worried about house the destruction costs and the activations of their villages apt to offer their houses. In addition, the results of the conjoint analysis indicated that vacant house owners preferred persons who joined events in the village. On the basis of this knowledge, we have proposed two measures to utilize vacant houses and to promote rural immigration.
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Toru TERADA, Makoto YOKOHARI, Jay BOLTHOUSE, Ruishi MATSUMOTO
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
179-184
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This study aims to identify a citizen-based maintenance scheme for suburban
satoyama based on the Funabashi Forest Working Plan. Through interviews, questionnaire and daily management records kept by the citizen group, we identified: 1) rationales for local government, forest owners, and citizen group to participate in the forest working plan, 2) the details of management activities, and 3) the amount (person/hour) and efficiency of management. Based on the results, we concluded that this management scheme is an advanced example of suburban
satoyama woodland management and that the Forest Working Plan could promote suburban
satoyama woodland management more broadly, if it can be successfully applied to other suburban areas.
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The case study of Irrigation Water Wheels in Sukeyasu district
Yuichi HIROSE, Kenji MATSUMORI, Takeo SHIMA, Takuya MINETA, Kenji ISHI ...
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
185-190
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This study aim to clear up the determinative factor of motive that non-farmer resident participates for conservation action of Irrigation Water Wheels (IWWs). According to analysis, the factor in which influences the motive the most is knowledge about information of IWWs where one is career in this area, another is status of utilization in Japan. However, there is a difference at the level of the influence between residents who were born in local and others. Residents of local birth values knowledge about information very strongly while residents of not-local birth values knowledge about information as much as desire.
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Case Study of Shiso City and Neighboring Districts, Hyogo Prefecture
Hidetsugu MORIMOTO, Shizuka HASHIMOTO, Satoshi HOSHINO, Yasuaki KUKI
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
191-196
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We evaluated the efficiency of biomass utilization in Shiso, Hyogo Prefecture, a designated “biomass town”. The biomass town scheme has been implemented only in this single municipality, and not many regions have achieved efficient utilization of biomass. Therefore, we investigated the current situation and use of the scheme both within Shiso and over a wider area incorporating neighboring municipalities. We then applied the Diagnostic Evaluation Model for Biomass Circulation (Morimoto et al., 2009) to each of these cases, estimated the economic efficiency and environmental impact (greenhouse gas emissions), and defined the problems faced and the potential benefits to Shiso and the surrounding area.
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Case Study on TOUHOKU Region.
Akemi SAITOU, Hiroyuki FUJISAKI
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
197-202
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We studied about the opening situation of farmer's restaurants by individual management and difference in manager's sex in TOHOKU region, using a questionnaire survey in 2009. As the result, farmers' motive of opening restaurant is mainly revitalization of their area and increase of their products' value, and many farmer rebuild existent facilities to their restaurant with their own fund. Men tend to serve SOBA (buckwheat noodle), on the other hand women tend to serve set menu. But not only men but also women bask in the approval of their family and get appropriate opening fund.
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Saki HOJO, Junichi HIROTA
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
203-208
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This paper analizes a process of growth of woman's rural enterprising organization by participant observation in the case of Hondera village in Ichinoseki city, Iwate prefecture. The results are as following: (1) The process is subdivided into six stages as establishing human network, raising motivation, building experience, priparating an organizaiton, establishing the organization and managing the origanization, (2) The case has been successful to give t the motivation for enterprising to the women who participated the project. (3) The factors of success are a) Support by public administration in budget and human resources, b) Training and experience of events, c) Enterprising as a community development, d) Policy to keep up staff motivation.
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Tomomitsu SHIMOKUROSAWA, Junichi HIROTA, Satoshi MIYAKE
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
209-214
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The purpose of this study is to analyze significance of open air markets both for visitors and vendors. The case for study is the Shizukuisi Keitora-Ichi which is one of the most famous and successful open air markets in Japan. The results are following: 1) Visitors come to the market for buying fresh, new, and more reasonable agricultural & fishery products, enjoying the atmosphere like festival, and communication with the vendors. 2) Vendors can constantly expect a large income by cash at one day, and get needs of consumers directly and useful information of other open markets from other vendors. 3) The advantages above are created by good communication with visitors and vendors in a crowed street.
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Availability of GPS for Agriculture and Farmers' Adoption in Japan and US
Hironori Yagi
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
215-220
Published: November 30, 2010
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The objective of this paper is to give a prospect for the conditions of market penetration of precision farming (PA) technologies in field crop farms through the comparison of Japan and US situation. This paper focuses not only on farmers' adoption of PA technologies but also on the suppliers of PA equipments since they are under different situations of PA market and infrastructure. As a result of interview surveys, some technologies are not available to Japanese farms and most available equipments are more expensive than the US price due to the market size and language interpretation cost. GPS guidance systems are cost efficient for the Japanese farms if they can reduce less than 1% of factor input and labor cost, which is likely to be low enough to adopt them.
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A Cases Study of Koma District of Hagi City in Yamaguchi Prefecture
Makoto SAKAMOTO, Takeo KUBO
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
221-226
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This study is aimed at clarifying the impact of nonresident landowners on farmland utilizations in hilly and mountainous areas through surveying the situations of the farmland ownership and the cultivation management by the nonresident landowner's attribute and consideration to the farmland and the region. The result of the survey points out the necessity of ensuring the function of land use adjustment in the region and having a relationship between nonresident landowner and the community.
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Yuki WAKIMOTO, Eiji YAMAJI
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
227-232
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Nowadays, the yield of SRI is widely discussed, but there are not so much researches about other than the yield. This study discussed the various impacts of SRI applying on farm household economy and its effect on farmer's attitude toward rice growing techniques based on the farmers interview data collected in Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The results were, about the impacts, the SRI farmers achieved 20% of yield increase, 87% of seed reduction, 17% of fertilizer reduction and 32% of transplanting labors reduction. About the attitude, the experience of SRI showed a strong relationship with the farther changes of management, but the changes were not activated by transferring new rice varieties. The farmers developed new managements by shuffling SRI and the conventional. This change was proved rational from the viewpoint of water productivity and should be put much value from the viewpoint of farmer's empowerment.
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Examination for Improvement of Countermeasures to Decrease Agricultural Damage by Wildlife in Uruno, Kozagawa-town, Wakayama Prefecture
Emi TAKEYAMA, Yasuaki KUKI
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
233-238
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This study aims to develop the design of separation zone, named “Anti-Wildlife Belt”, between habitat of wildlife and agricultural field to decrease agricultural damage by wildlife, especially wild bore and Sika deer. “Anti-Wildlife Belt” is constructed by separation line and its outside and inside space, each of which is required different function as follows; 1) Separation line requires “preventing function to be crossed by wildlife” by physical barrier as fundamental element of “Anti-Wildlife Belt”. 2) Outside space of separation line requires “obstructing function”. 3) Inside space of separation line requires “warning function”.
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A case study in Batou district, Tochigi
Hitoshi KOJIMA, Keiko SASAKI, Hikari ITO, Satoshi OSAWA
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
239-244
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To examine the relationship between dietary wild plants and variety of local flora in a rural landscape, we investigated one farming family in Batou district,Tochigi prefecture. As a result,15 taxa of floristic species were used for food,143 taxa of dietary plants were observed in the backyard of their farmhouse, and 404 species of wild plants was recorded around the farmhouse. The dietary wild plants was 24 species (6.0%) in 404 species of wild plants. The dietary wild plants was not many in the regional flora.
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A study of community in Mie Prefecture
Naoto Yamabata
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
245-250
Published: November 30, 2010
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The purpose of countermeasure to agricultural damage by wildlife is to maintain regional farming by reducing the damage.
This requires demonstrating that the reduction of agricultural damage by wildlife will help raise farmers' awareness of farmland management.
This study shows that the farmers' awareness of the countermeasure to agricultural damage by wildlife correlates with the awareness of farmland management. Further, this study has verified that in the community where agricultural damage has been reduced, farmers in the community tend to improve “the awareness of countermeasure to agricultural damage by wildlife” and “the awareness of farmland management”.
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A Case Study of Naganuma and Tohbetsu Town, Hokkaido prefecture
Akihiro Kobayashi
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
251-256
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This study examined on the problems of landscape planning of rural municipality trying urban-rural exchange activities. Naganuma and Tohbetsu town in Hokkaido were chosen for this study. In this study, the following points which related to problems of rural landscap pl;anning were examined; details of measures related to landscape of Naganuma and Tohbetsu town rural in recent years, key decision process of district of landscape planning and dividing the district, establishing goal of landscape planning and political measures for achievement of the goal, the process of consensus building and promoting power of citizens.
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Case Study of Sasayama Basic Ordinance for Local Government
Kazuya KUBOTA, Sizuka HASHIMOTO, Satoshi HOSHINO, Yasuaki KUKI
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
257-262
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In this study, we paid special attention to the role of inspection tours in knowledge transfer from one municipality to another. Using the city of Sasayama and its Basic Ordinance for Local Government as a case, we investigated 1) what kind of knowledge did inspectorates from other municipal governments try to obtain from Sasayama through tours, 2) commonalities and differences of knowledge looked for by inspectorates and 3) why such commonalities and differences arose. Questionnaire and interview survey were employed. Our analysis clarified that category and concreteness of questions raised by inspectorates in tours differs significantly depending on their awareness about and progresses of the draft up of ordinances because, under given time constraints, inspectorates tended to collect knowledge and information with priority which would be useful for their practices.
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A Case Study of Sasayama City and Tamba City, Hyogo Pref.
Tomoko Kawaguchi, Masaya Nakatsuka, Satoshi Hoshino
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
263-268
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The function of a settlement is being broken because of ageing and declining in population in recent years, so a reorganization of the autonomous organization is needed. Therefore, the community support staff system is made recently. Then, this paper studies the problems of a support staff system. In conclusion, it was clarified that there are problems of disagreement between supporter's and inhabitant's awareness, and a supporter's role is not clear. It is further suggested that it will be necessary to give publicity of a supporter's importance and role to inhabitants.
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Tokuji Yamamoto, Hideharu Kurita, Tetsushi Shigeoka
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
269-274
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The improvement of the quality of rural landscape is an important requirement to promote of green tourism and exchange between town and rural regions. However, a present measure is scenic preservation that values the visual element. Therefore, it will be necessary to establish the evaluation method including not only the sight but also aural and sense of smell in the future. Then, the acoustical environment in rural regions was caught by the movement measurement with the sound level meter, and it proposed the dynamic measurement technique for understanding the target and the spatial change characteristic during that time according to the sound quality evaluation index in the present study.
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Consideration of Acceptable Maintenance Work Types by using Conjoint Analysis
Tadao Yamamoto, Tetuaki Nagasawa
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
275-280
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In this study, we considered the maintenance work plans that the residents participate easily, for inquest of motivation of local residents' participation in the maintenance works of irrigation and drainage facilities, by using conjoint analysis. The results of questionnaire to residents in Kitami, Hokkaido, were analyzed. The attributes of this analysis were (a) distance to working point, (b) attendance area, (c) working hours and (d) working frequency.
From the conjoint analysis, the attributes of the plan with the highest possibility of participation were found to meet the following conditions, (a) on foot, (b) everyone knows everyone else, (c) half day and (d) once a year. “Working hours” was important factor for local residents, and “working frequency” was important factor for non-farmers. It will be necessary to consider the maintenance working plan that work hours is limited to a day in one working and the planner doesn't demand much participation from non-farmers.
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Shinsuke HARUTA, Yuji SAKURAI
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
281-286
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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 mean concentrations of Cd, Cr, Pb, Ni, Cu, Zn, Fe, Mn were <0.5μg•L
-1, <0.5μg•L
-1, 3.98μg•L
-1, 4.93μg•L
-1, 8.86μg•L
-1, 36.5μg•L
-1, 107.3μg•L
-1, 8.24μg•L
-1, respectively. The values and the distribution of the concentrations showed that the heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Pb, Ni, Cu, Zn, Fe, Mn) concentrations in the reclaimed wastewater were low enough to keep good plants growth and human health. Therefore, the risk of irrigating the reclaimed wastewater for individual gardens must be low.
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A Case Study in Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
Katuhiro AKAZAWA, Mitsuru SATOH
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
287-292
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Although studies have been made on factors in repeat demand for tourism, but there is a little agreement on satisfaction-non-based factors. Therefore, in this paper, the existence of the satisfaction-non-based factors has been verified by the quantitative analysis. In addition, we have clarified the signification of these factors: for instance, the sense of anticipation, the renewal of preference by experiments and so on. Finally, we have proposed the strategic implications regarding the repeat demand creation for tourism by taking satisfaction-non-based factors into consideration.
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Satoru USHIROZAWA, Masao MAKIYAMA, Takaaki TAKAHASHI
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
293-298
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This study evaluates the benefits of a
Kleingarten (stay-type allotment garden) to the local municipality that sets up and operates it using data on investment, maintenance cost, and user fee revenue. One of the main findings of this study is that the local municipality, on average, suffers a considerable amount of deficit. The annual deficit of a typical
Kleingarten, estimated by substituting median values to the regression results, is approximately 240,000 yen. Although the financial situation may be marginally improved by increasing the user fee, it can be safely concluded that it is difficult for a municipality to achieve profit by providing a
Kleingarten.
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A Case Study of ‘Gamadas-Net’ in Shimabara Peninsula, Nagasaki Prefecture
Takashi WATANABE
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
299-304
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The purpose of this research is to identify characteristic of governing structure of ‘Gamadas-Net’, one of the green tourism governing organization, in terms of involving a number of stakeholders. The main findings are as follows. (1) Contents of management activities are different for different stakeholders depending on characteristics of each stakeholder. (2) Non Profit Organization (NPO) plays a central role in planning and managing green tourism. (3) The stakeholder leading to the management of green tourism is different according to the governing organization's stage of development. Based on these findings, I propose a list of considerations for reviewing the management of green tourism.
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Makoto NOHMI
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
305-310
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The purpose of the paper is to develop a method to estimate the number of movers between any two districts in a rural municipality in application with 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 mover flows in a rural municipality.
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Kohei NAGAI, Mariko YABE, Ryo KANAMORI
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
311-316
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A survey by questionnaire was conducted to study the frequency and range of movement of residents in Niyodogawa-cho, Kochi Prefecture, located in a mountainous region. The result is classified by age group. It is confirmed that the frequency and the range of activities differ by age group: the higher the age, the lower the frequency. It is predicted from the results that the situation rapidly changes in a rapidly aging mountainous region. This prediction is required to be considered for planning of development and maintenance of infrastructure.
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A Case Study of “Satodzukuri” Plans of Kobe City
Yasuaki KUKI, Satoshi HOSHINO, Shizuka HASHIMOTO, Yasunari MIYAKE
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
317-322
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In this paper, the planning support body's influence on rural community plans and planning methods was examined for the 70 rural communities' plans of Kobe City. It was uncovered that the following three causes made difference in the form of the plans as a result of analyzing forms of the plans by using quantification method III. They are the participation of the adviser and the diversity of the advisers' specials, and the existence of the model of the plan. Moreover, it was clarified that there was a difference in the planning methods by the administrative staff's experience and the participation of the adviser as a result of analyzing the planning methods. In addition, as the difference of adviser's specials didn't effect on the form and the planning methods, it was suggested that the planning methods in the community level have been established as a common way to any specials.
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Masaya SUGITA, Hiroshi AIZAWA
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
323-328
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We figured out the conditions of sustainable management and inheritance of agricultural community which still has stabilized population structure in rural area. In terms of autonomy, inhabitants should have a chance to join the autonomous activity, not depending on their specific attribution. In terms of maintenance of living environment, the unit of the activity should be enlarged to decrease the charge of participants. In terms of agricultural management, elder and younger farmers should share the management depending on their advantages and the degree of dependence on farming. To reorganize the autonomy units in rural area, it should be multistoried by “Ooaza” units and ex-village units.
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A Case Study of the “Earth Art Festa 2009” in Mashiko, Tochigi
Ryo Yamazaki
2010 Volume 29 Issue Special_Issue Pages
329-334
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This study attempts to clarify the process for building a community bound by the same theme (Theme Community) through organizing a new art festival with public involvement in a hilly and mountainous area which has a strong community rooted in a locality. In the studied case, “Earth Art Festa 2009”, local people's roles were divided into 28 types and each role team has been fostered to become a Theme Community. In addition, the communities have built the strong relationship both inside each team and with other teams through team building programs and the network with other communities. Creating the many opportunities throughout the preparation process of the festival, to discuss on how they can play a part in the local community after the festival also helped people to continuously participate in the activities for the local area as the member of the Theme Community.
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