A Study in the Ethical Value Structure of Local Climate in the Process of Citizen Participation for Nature Regeneration

点击翻译按钮获取中文摘要

Although it is thought that it is necessary for projects of nature regeneration in public works to make citizens engage in their processes, many of the projects of nature regeneration are carried out in rural areas. Local people are expected to participate in the projects, but it is difficult to design the process as in the case of urban areas, where people behave as modern citizen. Rather, in the case of rural areas, we should design the whole process as is matched to the characteristics of rural space, since local areas have their own concepts of autonomy, collaboration, publicity, justice of distribution of resources and burden of risks. This study made it clear that the projects of nature regeneration in rural areas should pay attention to the importance of information management based on the notions of local climate and history of reason behind opinions of people and offered a new idea of what is given, what is encountered, and what is chosen for ethical decision making in the process of nature regeneration. These ideas are proposed to some of the governmental organizations that are responsible for the reconstruction of the areas devastated by the Great East Japan Disaster in 2011. A new project entitled'A study of ethical value structure of information management in the public consensus building was accepted by JSPS as the next step of this study.