Making of "the Sustainable Community" through the Partnership among Citizens, Private Corporations and Local Governments.

本研究的目的是通过公民、私营企业和地方政府之间的伙伴关系来调查打造“可持续社区”的过程。1998年6月至2000年3月，我走访了日本各地50多个非营利组织和非营利组织支持中心，并采访了许多公民运动积极分子。根据这项研究的结果，我写了三篇文章：第一，我写了一篇题为《非营利组织与非营利组织阶段的公民运动：日本当代环境运动的活动》的文章。这本书将与Yuhikaku出版公司一起出版，作为一系列的“环境社会学讲座”。在本文中，我将环境问题分为四个主要问题，明确了环境非营利组织的活动促成了地方社区的形成。其次，我还撰写了一篇题为《当代环境非营利组织与地方政府、私营企业和环境非营利组织之间的伙伴关系》的文章。这本书将与密涅瓦出版公司一起出版，作为《非营利组织与环境》系列丛书。在这篇文章中，我讨论了地方政府、私营企业和环境非营利组织之间建立伙伴关系的过程。第三，我与我在成经大学的研讨会学生一起起草了一份题为《镰仓市环境与交通非营利组织报告》的报告。在这份报告中，我指的是1998年至1999年镰仓市市民保护自然的活动和交通问题。这份报告已提交给镰仓市政府。此外，我刚刚开始撰写题为《当代日本非营利组织支持中心研究》的第四篇文章，这篇文章将与密涅瓦出版公司共同出版，作为《当代社会的社会变革讲座》系列文章。

The purpose of this research is to investigate the process of making "the sustainable community" through the partnership among citizens, private corporations and local governments. I visited more than 50 environmental NPOs and NPO support centers throughout Japan, and interviewed many activists of citizen's movements from June 1998 to March 2000. By means of the findings of this research, I have written three articles.Firstly I have written an article titled "Environmental NPOs and Citizen's Movements in the NPO stage ; Contemporary Activities of Environmental Movements in Japan". It is to be published with Yuhikaku Publishing Company as a series of "Lectures on the Environmental Sociology". In this article, I classified the environmental problems under four main issues, and made it clear that the activities of environmental NPOs were brought to the formation of local communities.Secondly, I have also written an article titled "Contemporary Environmental NPOs and Making Partnership among Local Governments, Private Corporations and Environmental NPOs". It is to be published with Minerva Publishing Company as a series of "NPO and Environment". In this article, I discussed the processes of making partnership among local governments, private corporations and environmental NPOs.Thirdly, I have drawn up a report titled "Report on the Environmental and Transportation NPOs in Kamakura City" together with my seminar students of Seikei University. In this report, I refer to citizen's activities to conserve nature and transportation problem in Kamakura City from 1998 to 1999. This report was presented to the Kamakura City government.In addition, I have just started on the fourth article entitled "Research on NPO Support Centers in Contemporary Japan", which is to be published with Minerva Publishing Company as a series of "Lectures on Social Change in Contemporary Societies".