JOURNAL OF JAPAN SOCIETY OF HYDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES
Online ISSN : 1349-2853
Print ISSN : 0915-1389
ISSN-L : 0915-1389
Volume 30, Issue 4
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Original research article
  • Satoshi KAWAMORITA, Satoshi ANZAI, So KAZAMA
    2017 Volume 30 Issue 4 Pages 209-220
    Published: July 05, 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: September 01, 2017
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     To understand public’s image of rivers and to use it for future river management, social media data were analyzed. Among data of various social media, Instagram data were chosen for their real-time nature with low noise. Data were collected through hash-tag searches with hash-tags related to rivers such as #river or #Hirose-river. Through text mining and analyses of images and the number of posts, five unique outcomes were archived. First, river interest originates from private business and events. Secondly, an observed number of river users and their purposes do not always correspond with those estimated from Instagram data. Thirdly, with the index defined as the number of posts with #river-name per basin population, touristic rivers such as Shimanto River and Niyodo River have an 8-50 times higher index than the average, which indicates that tourism contributes greatly to river interest. Fourth, compared to posts with #river and posts with #mountain, #river posts concentrated on July and August and rivers do not mention particular names of places, although mountain lovers aim at a particular mountain. Finally, playing in shallow river water areas is popular.
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  • Kenji NAGATA
    2017 Volume 30 Issue 4 Pages 221-236
    Published: July 05, 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: September 01, 2017
    JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

     The international community has been giving reconstruction assistance to post-conflict Afghanistan since 2002. The Kabul Process, taking particular note of the Government ownership, began in 2010. It has continued to the present day to put into practice the Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS). The reconstruction assistance, however, has not yet succeeded. This study, from the perspective of the water resources sector, analyzed problems and issues related to the procedure and performance of the Kabul Process by social strata of the Afghanistan reconstruction assistance. Results demonstrated the following: 1) the political level did not clarify and indicate a concept of the Afghanistan government ownership; 2) the policy-making level fragmented the water resources sector and doubled its coordination body; 3) the policy-implementing level prepared no comprehensive water resource program and secured no coordination among water resource sub-sectors; and 4) the local society had no chance to show its own needs. Considering a strong autonomous sense based on tribalism in Afghanistan local societies, the author infers that the people’s ownership is more important than the government’s ownership. The Afghanistan government and donors must find local societies’ demands and incorporate them into Afghanistan government policies. To do so, local organizations and institutions must be reformed appropriately; local human resources must be developed. Moreover, to respect and facilitate “People’s and Government Ownership (PGO)” in Afghanistan, the donors must indicate their clear reconstruction assistance policy, and must develop their own capacity for raising Afghanistan PGO.

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