Shrinking Strategy with Dignity for Rehabilitation and Revitalization of Community in an Era of Declinig Populaltion : Conceptual Analyses

ソンゲン　アル　シュクタイ　ニ　ヨル　コミュニティ　ノ　サイセイ　ト　ソウセイ　ガイネン　ノ　セイリ　ト　テンボウ

アツミ, トモヒデ

Atsumi, Tomohide

サイガイ　ト　キョウセイ　ケンキュウカイ

集落の再生

集落の創生

尊厳

評価

Shrinking

Rehabilitation of Community

Revitalization of Community

Dignity

Evaluation

The present study introduces a research project entitled, Shrinking Strategy with Dignity for Rehabilitation and Revitalization of Comrnumty led by the author and funded by JSPS on the Topic-Settmg Program to Advance Cutting-Edge Humanities and Social Sciences Research-Responding to Real Society. After an overview of the project, we will present the study's concepts the current plan, and propose a new evaluation system for such a practical social scientific research project. First, it examines the concept of shrinking (eg, strategies for making a community Smaller an era of declining population). Second, it reviews previous studies on rehabilitation and revitalization of community. Third, it expands the concept of dignity to the shrinking process of cormnumty. Fourth, it proposes a few tools to practrce in a commnunity. Fifth, it discusses some implications of shrinking strategy with dignity. Finally, it propose; a new evaluation system for this project.