Field Data Analysis

Rural communities in East Asian countries, including Japan, are currently facing problems related to the sustainability of the local environment, such as depopulation, ageing, increasing abandoned farmland, and emerging damage by wildlife. Our laboratory focuses on the planning to solve these problems, and examines the effects of the planning systems, how they should be operated, their history and paradigm shifts, as well as exploring future visions for rural areas by engaging in planning processes and its implementation at community scales.

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	Prof. KUKI Yasuaki E-mail: yakuki69 [at] okayama-u.ac.jp rural planning, community planning, damage by wildlife, abandoned farmland, ordinance, land use Directory of Researchers

Construction of community planning theory led by residents

There have been cases where local residents in Japanese rural areas are embarking on planning and revitalizational development themselves in decades. In this research, we focus on such movements within the settlements scale, and try to clarify difference and characteristics compared to the conventional administration-led form. The results will allow us to construct a planning theory peculiar to the Japanese rural area and can be expected to be useful as a guideline for future regional development.

	Prof. MORITA  Hidenori E-mail: h-morita [at] cc.okayama-u.ac.jp geospatial Informatics, geoinformatics, rural planning Directory of Researchers

In late years, global environmental problems such as desertification, forest decrease and farmland dilapidation become serious, while local environmental problems such as the dilapidation of satoyama landscape become serious. These environmental problems occur in various spatial scale. These all are phenomenon occurred on the real space. And map (geospatial information) is the tools which can describe such space phenomenon. I have been trying to analyze various environmental problems using such as geospatial information, satellite image and statistical information so on with mathematical methods.