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Impacts of 150 Years of Modernization Policies on the Management of Common Forests in Japan: A Statistical Analysis of Micro Census Data
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Abstract After World War II, Japan's policy makers believed that common forests were underutilized because of their legal status and organization method under customary iriai-type ownership and that modern ownership in the form of group ownership, such as forest producers' cooperatives, or as individual, sep... mehr
After World War II, Japan's policy makers believed that common forests were underutilized because of their legal status and organization method under customary iriai-type ownership and that modern ownership in the form of group ownership, such as forest producers' cooperatives, or as individual, separate ownership, would improve the situation. Thus, the Common Forests Modernization Act of 1966 was enacted, following successive modernization policies since the Meiji Restoration in 1868. We evaluated the impacts of the past modernization policies on the management of common forests by statistically comparing the performance of modernized and non-modernized 19,690 common forests based on the World Census of Agriculture and Forestry 2000. The performance measures for comparison included planting, weeding, thinning, and harvesting activities. We found less modernized, customary holdings are more active in tending activities such as weeding and thinning, while modernized holdings may have an advantage in harvesting and timber sales.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Mikrozensus; Wald; Gemeineigentum; Modernisierung; Japan; Organisation; Forstwirtschaft; vergleichende Forschung; Regressionsanalyse; Eigentumsverhältnisse
Klassifikation
spezielle Ressortpolitik
Wirtschaftssektoren
Freie Schlagwörter
census data; common forests; iriai; The World Census of Agriculture and Forestry 2000
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 1021-1034
Zeitschriftentitel
International Journal of the Commons, 13 (2019) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.936
ISSN
1875-0281
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)