Collaborated Research for Creation of the Ecommunity on Island and Peninsular Areas

本研究课题的目的是在鹿儿岛县人口减少和老龄化导致社区混乱的岛屿和半岛地区寻找创建电子社区的各种条件和过程。它是通过与经济学、教育学和政治学的合作来完成的。生态社区是经济、生态和社区的复合词，我们在三年的时间里，进行了多次实地调查，试图找到一个现实中的生态社区实体。以下几个地区对于我们想象电子社区是非常重要和令人印象深刻的--冲绳县佐中马半岛的Kasasa Cho，奄美大岛的Nazeshi，中岛岛，北海道的Kuriyama Cho，韩国济州岛。以上研究是基于他们如何同时维持社区和支持个人生活以及创建电子社区所需的观点完成的。首先，在上述研究的任何一个案例中，他们在促进区域发展的同时，都考虑到了经济活动、环境保护、社区功能的协调;第二，在生态社区的演进过程中，他们充分、可持续地利用了区域所拥有的土地、森林、海洋等共同资源;第三，在生态社区的创建过程中，这是一个经济、生态和社区平衡的社会，这种行动和组织是非常重要的：在当地的下一代继承传统文化，环境保护的进步教育，支持社区商业的非营利组织（NPO）。

This research project had been aim to find various conditions and process for creation of Ecommunity on the Island and Peninsular Areas, where being Community disrupt caused by depopulating and residents' aging, in Kagoshima prefecture. And it accomplished by collaborating with economic, pedagogic and political Sciences. In this connection, Ecommunity is a compound word, made by economy, ecology and community.We had carried out field surveys several times to find out an entity of Ecommunity in reality, during the three years. The following regions are very important and impressive for us to imagine the Ecommunity -Kasasa Cho in Sachuma Peninsular, Okinoerabu Island, Nazeshi in Amami Island, Chushima Island, Kuriyama Cho in Hokkaido, Jeju Island in Korea.Above studies were completed based on the viewpoints of how they maintaining their community and supporting individual living simultaneously as well as what will be necessary to create the Ecommunity.First, In any cases of above studies, when they promote the development of region, they living now, it has been consider for them to harmonize the economy activity, environment conservations, community functions.Second, In the process of evolving Ecommunity, they make full and sustainable use of common resources possessed by region such as like land, forest, and marine resources.Third, For the creation of Ecommunity, which is a society be balanced to economy, ecology and community, such actions and organizations are very important as following ; inherit traditional culture to next generation in the local area, education for progress of environment conservation, non profit organizations (NPO) supporting the community business.