Labor Forces and Landscape Management: Japanese Case Studies by Hiroyuki Shimizu, Chika Takatori, Nobuko Kawaguchi

By Hiroyuki Shimizu, Chika Takatori, Nobuko Kawaguchi

The function of this ebook is to provide a brand new thought for panorama administration exertions bills. Many matured international locations at the moment are confronting an getting older society and a shrinking inhabitants. Land degradation in these international locations is essentially brought on by a scarcity of neighborhood hard work forces. you will need to, hence, to think about and improve ways to supply applicable exertions forces for the sustainable administration of landscapes or to lessen or slash panorama administration components sustainably with on hand exertions forces. panorama administration hard work debts offer a origin for such development.This booklet involves 4 major elements. the 1st half is anxious with forming techniques, definitions, and overviews. swap in land administration guidelines, learn themes, and concerns on panorama administration are handled within the moment half. The 3rd half involves case reviews on panorama administration exertions money owed. significant panorama varieties selected for case reviews comprise city parts, flatland farmlands, Satoyama, and coastal neighborhoods. within the final a part of this part, integration easy methods to enhance panorama administration hard work money owed on diversified scales are thought of. The fourth a part of the booklet is an in depth exposition of latest trials to unravel problems with land administration for the longer term within the box of city, rural, wooded area, river, and coastal making plans. additionally mentioned is the relationship of atmosphere carrier reviews and views at the improvement of panorama administration exertions money owed with international panorama administration research.

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19 shows the relation of the population changes between 1975 and 2010, and the land gradients. It is obvious that the population increase occurs in the relative flat areas under 8°. But it can’t be ignored that the population decrease already occurs in all categories of land gradient ranks. 20 shows the relation of the recent population changes between 2005 and 2010, and land gradients. It is remarkable that decreasing and increasing trends are reversed from the change between 1975 and 2010 in their ratios and the decreasing trend becomes dominant.

In the area of other field types, the tendency to decrease changed to exceed increase. 42 H. Shimizu Fig. 5 %) There is no estimation of urban land use accounts in 2050. The relation between urban land use areas and population in 2050 can be estimated. 32 shows the urban land use area per population in 2010 in each landscape type. It is interesting to see that in the other field type, the other field area per population is extremely high. It might be said that fields without paddy fields could be managed in a wider area than paddy fields, which need more labor-intensive methods.

19 Population changes between 1975 and 2010 and land gradients (Threshold 5 %) Fig. 21 shows the urban land use changes between 1976 and 2009. The threshold between decrease or increase and being stable is ±5 % change. High urban land use increases can be observed in the densely populated areas, such as Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and so on. But the decrease in urban land use is already 36 Fig. 21 Urban land use changes between 1976 and 2009 (Threshold 5 %) Fig. 5 %) H. Shimizu 2 Japanese Basic Landscape Types, and Change … 37 shown, mostly scattered in the countryside and mainly in the mountainous areas.

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