Endogenous Development Theory and Rural Studies in JAPAN

Abstract

中川・宮地・高柳(2013) 日本における内発的発展論と農村分野の課題 ─その系譜と農村地理学分野の実証研究を踏まえて(農村計画学会誌) This paper discusses the endogenous development theory in Japan based on the “regions”. It raises contemporary topics by reviewing empirical research in rural geography and by examining some practices in regions. The endogenous development theory has been developed as a social movement theory of municipality. However, since rural areas have been diversifi ed, they should be taken up as places of human development. Therefore the endogenous development theory should be a forum for interdis- ciplinary research of “regions