Changes and perspectives of rural areas as the base of human lives under globalization : Consideration on sustainability from the viewpoint of local people, resources, community and governance

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  • グローバリゼーション下における生存基盤としての農村 : ローカルな生活者・資源・コミュニティ・制度からサステイナビリティを考える
  • グローバリゼーション カ ニ オケル セイゾン キバン ト シテ ノ ノウソン : ローカル ナ セイカツシャ ・ シゲン ・ コミュニティ ・ セイド カラ サステイナビリティ オ カンガエル

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This article scrutinized how the study on sustainability of rural society should be designed under such circumstances that rural societies are drastically changing and declining under the progress of economic globalization. Considering the principle mode of production in rural life based on full utilization of local resources formulated by nature and human interaction for generations, its change and the reason, “modernization” strongly promoted by governments changed the mode of production and resource utilization, and shift to consuming society has been spurred by economic globalization. Negative effects such as lowered value of local wisdom unique to the locality, decrease in rural population, decline of community management, environmental damage by excessive and skewed use of resources was caused, but on the other hand, some positive changes are observed such like the increase of the alternative ways of life for depressed people under oppressive society. In addition, the globalization of communication promoted the coalition of individuals who used to be lonely stragglers in the locality. Lastly, under such overwhelming influences by globalization on rural society, the prerequisites for rural society to be able to gain bargaining power, to maintain autonomous and unique livelihood in rural areas was examined.

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