Course title
農村社会論   [Rural Sociology]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year 3  Semester Spring 
Course type Spring  Course code 01RN3235
Instructor(s)
竹本 太郎   [TAKEMOTO Taro]
Facility affiliation Faculty of Agriculture Office   Email address

Course description
Utilization and ownership of forest in rural area has been affected enormously from modernization. In this lecture we survey firstly change of using forest resources, then secondly change of managing forest from the perspective of ownership in order to find out conditions of rural restoration.
Expected Learning
Understand change of relation between human and nature in community under the influence of modernization.
Grasp the current problems in community from the perspective of rural sociology.
Course schedule
1st Guidance
2nd What is community ? (1)
3rd What is community ? (2)
4th Natural resource utilization and land ownership
5th What are commons ?
6th Change of forest resources of rural area (1) What is Satoyama landscape ?
7th Change of forest resources of rural area (2) The firewood age
8th Change of forest resources of rural area (3) The plantation age
9th Change of forest resources of rural area (4) The biomass age
10th Change of forest management of rural area (1) Change of ownership
11th Change of forest management of rural area (2) Conflict of ownership and management
12th Change of forest management of rural area (3) Community forests
13th Change of forest management of rural area (4) Forest owners’ cooperative
14th Change of forest management of rural area (5) Possibility of rural restoration
Prerequisites
Required Text(s) and Materials
T. Odagiri, ed. Nousanson Saisei ni Idomu. Iwanami Shoten, 2013
References
T. Takemoto. Gakkorin no Kenkyu. Nousangyoson Bunka Kyokai, 2009
Assessment/Grading
Attendance and examination
Message from instructor(s)
Course keywords
Rural area, community, natural resource, forest and modernization
Office hours
Remarks 1
Remarks 2
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Lecture Language
Japanese
Language Subject
Last update
3/23/2018 2:07:47 PM