An Anthropological Study on Environmental Policies and Ethnic in the Everyday Life World

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Purpose of this research is to gather basic data to reutilize thoughts and systems of local environment conservation and modification that have been cultivated by local community under important environmental changes in Africa and Asia including Japan. We clarified response of local people toward conservation and transformations of systems and thoughts on forests and rivers through the fieldworks in local communities of East Africa (Kenya・Malawi), South Asia (Nepal), Southeast Asia (Thai), Central America (Guatemala), Europe (England) and Japan. This study developed new field of anthropological study on environment which means that it aimed at not only reevaluation of local system but rather leading to a perspective for creation of new environmental policies by extraction and comparison of their environmental logic.We have conducted :1)Interviewing local people and gathering data to understand how local people recognize their living space such as forests, rivers and lakes and have formed its rules and practices.2)Examining kinds of regulations and systems on environment that have been developed and controlled by government and external institution.3)Holding workshops in Japan and fields mentioned above on research results.As a result of this research, we discovered local people have been traditionally created unique logic, which cannot be taken up by the dichotomy of development versus conservation, for environment modifications in the process of modernization followed by destruction of natural environment. Significant issue posed to this study in the future would be to suggest some ideas for reconstructing environmental policies in the context of today's society by the logic we can call "living logic" found in this study.