A human being cared for Mt. Village (Satoyama) for a long term and was concerned in nature and various forms, and it was nature and the place that enabled coexistence between human beings by living together. It is becoming clear that the variety of a Japanese creature has been maintained by existence of Mt. village.
However, Mt. Village (Satoyama) was left for an energy revolution and an agriculture revolution and was considered to be a target of development with the expansion of a city. It maintain variety of a creature and support human life, and the village mountain where it is thought that it was related to the formation of Japanese culture closely is going to be lost.
By this project, general investigation studies maintenance mechanism of creature variety in Mt. Village, Mt. Village and the history of a relation with a human being, positioning of a village mountain in the modern society. This result is it to be born fruit as "Mt.Village (Satoyama) studies" which is general study about Mt. Village. In addition, It suggest a symbiosis model of the community which assumed Mt. village an axis and aim at construction of "Mt. Village studies / local symbiosis studies". |
