Anthropological Study on community-based revitalization and tourism resources development in depopulated and aging maritime areas in South-western Japan

在人口减少和老龄化的社会中，人们能够很好地适应环境，即人口减少、出生率下降和快速老龄化。此外，人们还想出了切实可行的战略，以克服这些社会特有的脆弱性，并延续他们与生俱来的传统村庄。这些战略是通过实际利用潜在的人力资源以及外部和内部行为者之间的互动行动来构建的。位于日本西南部的一些海洋小村庄的研究证明，这些社区可以找到克服脆弱性和建立以社区为基础的发展的方法。

In depopulated and aging societies, people can be well adapted to the circumstances ,that is to say, decreasing population, declining birth rate and rapid aging. Also people think up practical strategies in order to overcome their vulnerabilities that are characteristic of those societies and continue their natal traditional villages. Those strategies are constructed by practically using potential human resource and interactive actions between external and internal actors. Research in some small maritime villages located in southwestern Japan proved that these communities can find the way of overcoming the vulnerabilities and establishing community-based development.