An Analysis of a System of Rural Regional Environmental Management Led by ‘a Group of University Students’

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  • NAKAJIMA Masahiro
    Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
  • NAKAMURA Masato
    Graduate School of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
  • HIROSHIGE Yutaka
    Education and Research Center for Frontier Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

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  • 農山村地域における学生団体主導による地域環境管理システムの分析
  • ノウサンソン チイキ ニ オケル ガクセイ ダンタイ シュドウ ニ ヨル チイキ カンキョウ カンリ システム ノ ブンセキ

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This paper aims to analyze the formative processes and the current state of a collaboration between ‘outsiders’ and local residents in a System of Rural Regional Environmental management from the view point of human networks. The system seeks to solve the problem of abandoned farmlands led by a group of university students (outsiders). We chronologically classified a total of eighty-nine activities addressing the issue of abandoned farmlands by utilizing three concepts: ‘calculated devices’ (e.g. the making of relations between a group of university students and local residents and strengthening these relations), ‘assistance/participation’, and ‘voluntary interaction/desire’. Based on this analysis, we: 1) developed an understanding of the formative processes as well as the current state of the collaboration between a group of university students and twenty seven local residents from an individual perspective; 2) identified ten key individuals who played a significant role in the activities examined and revealed their characteristics and motivations; 3) suggest that an existing NPO and informal relations between the local residents played a major role in the formation of collaborative networks; 4) argue that the perceived characteristics of the students (e.g. ‘youthful’, ‘inexperienced’) and the Mori-Mori club (e.g. unstable) contributed to the maintenance and expansion of the collaboration between ‘outsiders’ and local residents.

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