Dissertation Enhancement: Rural and Agricultural Restructuring in Aomori Prefecture, Japan: A Study of the Lives and Economies of Apple Growers

9722872 Veeck该奖项支持日本广崎市广崎大学农业经济系的Gregory Veeck博士获得为期9个月的国家科学基金会论文强化奖。Veeck博士的学生Ann Brucklacher女士将与农业经济学教授Kensaku Kanda博士合作，进行一项名为“日本青森县农村和农业结构调整：苹果种植者生活和经济研究”的研究项目。这项拟议中的研究将记录日本青森县津garu地区经济和苹果种植者生活的变化。通过档案研究、访谈和调查，本研究将考察过去一个世纪的农村和农业结构调整，并将重点放在楚南区过去20年农业和农村生活的变化上，楚南区是津garu地区苹果种植的核心区。对整个地区进行历史研究，可以对19世纪70年代至今的苹果产业进行空间重构，并将该产业的变化与区位因素以及相应的经济、政治和社会趋势联系起来。从这项研究中获得的数据将作为一个框架，用于更广泛地了解日本农村地区发生的当代农业和文化结构调整。＊＊＊

9722872 Veeck This award supports a 9 month National Science Foundation Dissertation Enhancement award for Dr. Gregory Veeck at the Hirosaki University Department of Agricultural Economics, Hirosaki City, Japan. Dr. Veeck's student, Ms. Ann Brucklacher, will work with Dr. Kensaku Kanda, Professor of Agricultural Economics, on a research project entitled, "Rural and Agricultural Restructuring in Aomori Prefecture, Japan: A Study of the Lives and Economies of Apple Growers." The proposed research will document changes in the economies and lives of apple growers in the Tsugaru Region of Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Using archival studies, interviews, and surveys, the research will examine rural and agricultural restructuring over the last century and will focus on changes in agriculture and rural life in the past twenty years in the Chunan District, the core district of apple growing in the Tsugaru Region. Historical research on the region as a whole will permit a spatial reconstruction of the apple industry from the 1870s to the present and will relate changes in the industry to locational factors and to corresponding economic, political, and social trends. Data gained from the study will be used as a framework for a broader understanding of contemporary agricultural and cultural restructuring occurring throughout rural Japan. ***