Traditional or Economic Values? Analyzing Absentee Landowner Attitudes Amid Social and Agricultural Transformation in Japan
Traditional or Economic Values? Analyzing Absentee Landowner Attitudes Amid Social and Agricultural Transformation in Japan
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10.1111/ruso.12310
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发表时间：
2020-09
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2.3
通讯作者：
Yohei Katano;Pierce Greenberg;Jon Agnone
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作者：
Yohei Katano;Pierce Greenberg;Jon Agnone
由于二战后的土地改革以及随后几十年的文化、政治和经济转变，日本的农业土地所有权在上个世纪发生了巨大变化。最初的土地改革将土地所有权从富人转移到小规模农民。但是，随着日本工业化和城市化的发展，大量的农村土地被这些农民的后代遗弃或管理。本文分析了日本缺席的农业土地所有者的态度，以更好地理解对土地所有权的经济理性与传统态度的流行。我们借鉴了农村社会学文献的地方依恋假设为什么一些缺席的土地所有者觉得一个强大的纽带，他们的祖先的土地，而其他人愿意出售一个合理的价格。我们使用的独特的调查数据，从466缺席的农业土地所有者在日本。逻辑回归结果表明，附件的地方，性别，年龄，教育程度和土地的使用是显着的预测因素，是否土地所有者持有传统的，而不是经济，价值观。我们讨论了这些研究结果对日本未来可持续农业土地管理的影响。
Agricultural landownership in Japan has changed drastically over the last century due to post‐World War II land reforms and cultural, political, and economic shifts in the subsequent decades. Initial land reform shifted the concentrated ownership of land from the wealthy to small‐scale farmers. But as Japan industrialized and became more urban‐centered, a substantial amount of rural land has been left abandoned or unmanaged by descendants of those farmers. This paper analyzes the attitudes of absentee agricultural landowners in Japan to better understand the prevalence of economically rational versus traditional attitudes toward land ownership. We draw on the rural sociological literature on place attachment to hypothesize why some absentee landowners feel a strong tie to the land of their ancestors, while others would be willing to sell for a reasonable price. We use unique survey data obtained from 466 absentee agricultural landowners in Japan. Logistic regression results indicate that attachment to place, gender, age, educational attainment, and usage of land is significant predictors of whether landowners hold traditional, rather than economic, values. We discuss the implications of these findings for the future of sustainable agricultural land management in Japan.