Abstract

AbstractThis chapter examines how science can co-produce with local communities and what kind of roles it can play for local revitalization in one of the border islands of Japan, Tsushima (Nagasaki Prefecture). Currently, depopulation, declining birthrate, and aging population are accelerating in local regions all over Japan, and the management and survival of local communities is becoming “unsustainable.” Therefore, it has become a major issue on how to build a sustainable local community around Japan, and various efforts have already been made everywhere. Under these circumstances, the case of Tsushima is a practical case study of transdisciplinary research to develop a sustainable local community. This is also one of the Future Earth research which is based on the “co-design, co-production, and co-delivery between science and society.” This chapter will introduce two cases in Tsushima islands, and then, from the perspective of TD research, emphasize the importance of the role of coordinator, social sensitivity to local needs and realities, priority, problem framing, and scale setting.

Highlights

  • We examine how science can co-produce with local communities and what kind of roles it can play for local revitalization in one of the Japan border islands, Tsushima (Nagasaki Prefecture)

  • In the winter of 2015, we were talking with the president of the local construction company, the head of the Commerce and Industry Association, and municipal officials (Tsushima City officials) in Kamitsushima town located in the northernmost part of Tsushima

  • This chapter introduced the process of the project until the end of the second year, but from that time it is likely to take a long time for the results of the project to appear in a tangible way. It is not yet clear whether the high school students who performed fieldwork will return to the island in the future and become a local leader of the community. This project was taken up by the local media, and became known to a certain extent in Tsushima island, but it has not yet come to the stage where the external social evaluation (“legitimacy” as a TD indicator shown in this part) has been obtained apart from the internal evaluation among the relevant stakeholders

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Introduction

We examine how science (scientists, scientific knowledge, universities, and other research institutes) can co-produce with local communities (local society) and what kind of roles it can play for local revitalization in one of the Japan border islands, Tsushima (Nagasaki Prefecture). Depopulation, declining birthrate, and aging population are accelerating in local regions all over Japan, and the management and survival of local communities is becoming “unsustainable.” it has become a major issue on how to build a sustainable local community around Japan, and various efforts have already been made everywhere Under these circumstances, the case of Tsushima, which is introduced in this chapter, is a practical case study of transdisciplinary research (hereinafter, TD) to develop a sustainable local community. The case of Tsushima, which is introduced in this chapter, is a practical case study of transdisciplinary research (hereinafter, TD) to develop a sustainable local community This is one of the Future Earth research which is based on the “co-design, co-production, and co-delivery between science and society,” conducted by the interdisciplinary research team from the Institute of Decision Science for a Sustainable Society, Kyushu University (IDS3). From the perspective of TD research, the importance of social capital (face-to-face relationship), the role of coordinator, social sensitivity to local needs and realities, priority, problem framing, scale setting will be emphasized

Definition of Local Society and Local Community
Tsushima Island
Project “Looking for Island Treasures” by Local High School Students
Background of the Project Starting
Trial Experiment in the First Year
Development Phase in Second Year
Examining from the Perspective of “Co-design/ Co-production/Co-delivery”
Project “Reconversion of Abandoned Farmland” in Consideration of Biodiversity
Background of the Project Planning
Project Start
Project Development
Lesson Learned from the Project “Reconversion of Abandoned Farmland”
Findings
Conclusion
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