A STUDY ON THE PROCESS OF SETTLEMENT VANISHUMENT IN THE INTERMEDIATE AND MOUNTAINIOUS AREA IN THE VIEW POINT OF SPATIAL MANAGEMENT

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Last term, we did interview surveys in KAJIYA KAMASAWA settlement. In this term, we did interview survey in SHIMOGURI settlement, KAMI village NAGANO prefecture. Complementary, we did in FUTOMIHAMA in KAMOGAWA city, CHIBA PRECFECTURE, HIBARA in KITASHIOBARA village, FUKUSHIMA prefecture, NISHIGOYA, OSAGOYA, YOSHINUMA, OOSUNA in OUHO TOWN, IBARAGIPREFECTURE. Survey contents are consist of attributive character of residents, the outbreak years of vacant houses, out break conditions new address of vacant house owners, conditions of vacant house management, conditions of farm fields, relation ship between vacant house owners and residents. The purpose of this study is to clarify the depopulation issue in intermediate and mountainous areas from the perspectives of 1) the status and history of emigration of farming households, and 2) the management status of vacant houses and farm fields and the attributes of managers. The main results were as follows: 1) since family members, including descendent and emigrated households, wanted to manage their vacant houses even if they live far away, the level of management tended to decline over successive generations; 2) there was a tendency to consign the management of, or to even sell off, farm fields to people other than close blood relatives; 3) the typical attributes of a manager were i) a relative or neighbor residing in the settlement (including unrelated persons), and ii) an emigrated, descendent, or related household residing typically in the same or adjacent municipality (mainly blood relatives). The study confirmed that the latter was important in vacant house management, and the former was important in farm field management. The results suggest that some form of support is desirable, such as the networking of people involved in the management of vacant houses and farm fields.