Efforts to Preserve Depopulated Communities Using Closed Schools and Their Impact on Community Residents: Case Study of the Tachinoyama Area of the Mino District in the City of Miyoshi, Tokushima Prefecture

• Teruo HATAKEYAMA

  鳴門教育大学大学院学校教育研究科准教授．博士（理学）

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 廃校利活用による過疎集落維持の取組みと地域住民への影響―徳島県三好市三野地区太刀野山地域を事例に―

Abstract

This study examines the case of the Tachinoyama area of the Mino district in the city of Miyoshi, Tokushima prefecture, to define the potential for projects using closed schools which intend to preserve communities in underpopulated areas. It also examines the effects of such projects on local residents. In Tachinoyama, a social enterprise from outside the area oversaw this project, which utilizes closed school buildings. The buildings house community businesses centered on developing community-based daycare and preventive nursing services as part of a community-support project under Japan's nursing-care insurance system. The results include increased activity and better health for users and improvements in Tachinoyama residents' sense of community preservation. In this way, these initiatives are not only an example of community building through a “new public” involving a public–private partnership, but also contribute to current research as an example of “neo-endogenous development theory” that critically engages with the circumstances of underpopulated locales.

Journal

• E-journal GEO

  E-journal GEO 11 (2), 476-488, 2016

  The Association of Japanese Geographers

Keywords

• utilization of closed schools
• community business
• social enterprise
• preservation of depopulated communities
• comprehensive community care system

Details

• CRID: 1390282680302868480
• NII Article ID: 130005509242
• DOI: 10.4157/ejgeo.11.476
• ISSN: 18808107
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ejgeo/11/2/11_476/_pdf
• Text Lang: ja
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