Abstract
This paper overviews the progress in the social and cultural geography of Japanese rural areas from the mid 1990s to the mid 2000s by considering four topics: political and economic restructuring, sustainable systems of social integration and subsistence, self-governance of natural environments, and the history of the social construction of rural images. Today, Japanese rural geographers encounter two kinds of globalization: economic globalization, which directly or partially influences the four phenomena above, and the globalization of research activities by geographers who must internationally develop their own theoretical frameworks on these topics.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 323-335 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Geographical Review of Japan |
Volume | 81 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2008 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Earth-Surface Processes