The Study on the Agricultural Disaster Issues and Its Dynamic Change in the Agricultual-Pastoral Belt of Inner Mongolia of China (original) (raw)

Volunteer Group Activity Types of the Farmland Restoration after Flood Disaster in the Northern Part of Kyushu in 2012 in Yame and Ukiha City

Journal of The Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture, 2015

Many farmlands were destroyed by big flood disaster in 2012 that was occurred in Yame and Ukiha city, Fukuoka prefecture at northern Kyushu, Japan. In this paper, I described the case study that has been deployed the volunteer activities for farmland restoration after the flood disaster in the hilly and mountainous areas. The purpose of this study is to clarify the outline of the activities in three regions and to show the types of the volunteer groups of farmland restoration. Interview survey was conducted with each volunteer group's manager and collecting that materials. Field survey was also carried out along with the manager through June to September 2014. It was found that the volunteer group's activity types were characterized into three types. First, "Satochi-Satoyama conservation volunteer group type" that has been works from before and just after the disaster; second, "Residents-administration group type" and third, "Administration group type" who started their works few months after the disaster. Lastly, the distribution of activity areas, the first group was unevenly distributed due to their activity experiences on disasters in former years, the other groups were widely covered the area because of the needs by the local demand.

Research into the distribution of damage to farmland in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture, from the heavy rains in the northern part of Kyushu in 2012, and difficulties for the recovery

Journal of The Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture, 2014

This research focused on the hilly and mountainous area of Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture, which suffered damage due to the heavy rains that occurred in the northern part of Kyushu in July 2012. The objective of this research was to identify the distribution of damage to agricultural land in the Yame City area and the districts in which it was concentrated. In addition to characterizing the damage, the research was aimed at revealing the activities of aid agencies. To conduct this research, the carried out questionnaire survey by Yame City, the disaster report on the agricultural land and facilities was analyzed, and interviews were conducted to an NPO, and the leaders of the local. The results of our research led to the following conclusions: (1) Following a comparison of the reported disaster densities in the managed cultivated areas, it was ascertained that the damage was concentrated in Jouyo Town, Hoshino Village, and Kurogi Town, with totals ranging from 170.5 to 299.7 incidents/km2, and particularly in the Kasahara District of Kurogi Town, with a total of 1503.1 incidents/km 2. (2) The damage to roads in the semi-mountainous regions and it was shown that this situation exacerbated the difficulties of the recovery. (3) It was reinforced that the presence of an NPO with a base in the disaster area meant that the initial support for the recovery was highly effective.

Analytical survey of socioeconomic changes after the restoration of Cheonggye Stream

Reports of the City Planning Institute of Japan

Analytical survey of socioeconomic changes after the restoration of Cheonggye Stream-About the fluctuation of surrounding land value, effect on the industry, and new urban development-李在娟*・岡部明子** JAEYUN LEE* ・ AKIKO OKABE ** The Restoration of Cheonggye Stream (Seoul, Korea), which was finished in May 2005, is still observed by the world. The purpose of this paper is to make clear the influence of the Restoration of Cheonggye Stream in the surrounding area. The authors investigated the rate of fluctuation in land value, change of the surrounding industry, new urban development, and clarified the relationships among these. The result shows that the Restoration seems to be enhancing the value of the surrounding area but also evicting old established shops. Exclusive high-rise apartment buildings are developed substitute for the old established shops.