Effect of Instituting “Authorized Neighborhood Associations” on Communal (Iriai) Forest Ownership in Japan

Yamashita, Utako; Balooni, Kulbhushan; Inoue, Morihiro

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“…14 In the Japanese context, research on community-based forest management by neighborhood associations is developing on the concept of iriai (commons) and the ecology of satoyama, however is been applied mostly in rural settings. 15 An exception to this trend is the group of "matsutake crusaders" located in suburban or periurban areas. They involve neighbors and enthusiasts in association to recreate the conditions that allow matsutake, a type of mushroom, to grow in the forest.…”

Section: Relevant Literature On Urban Forestrymentioning

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Tokyo Metropolitan Parks as urban forestry assemblagesreframing more-than-human commons in the city

Sánchez

Tsukamoto

Lobo

2022

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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This study explores urban forestry as a maintenance practice capable of enhancing more-than-human commons in the city. Focusing on the places associated with tree care, the methodology takes as a case study the Tokyo Metropolitan Parks, conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis through the means of immersive field work and questionnaires, to reveal how urban forestry practices materialize within the parks. Regarding the spatial relations between humans and/or non-humans with resources, different Urban Forestry Elements (UFE) have been found, as well as their collection in groups within the parks forming Urban Forestry Assemblages (UFA). The paper creates a comprehensive framework that reveals these places for urban forestry as important beacons for urban commoning.

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Section: Relevant Literature On Urban Forestrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Tokyo Metropolitan Parks as urban forestry assemblagesreframing more-than-human commons in the city

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Tsukamoto

Lobo

2022

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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“…But later they opted to take advantage of a new 1991 amendment to the Local Autonomy Law that allowed village communities to obtain corporate status as legally recognized entities, known as authorized neighborhood associations, which can then register their ownership of commons (see Figure 5). According to Yamashita et al (2009), when the government created the system for authorized neighborhood associations, it did not expect to see communities that managed iriai forests adopt this form to manage their commons. However, authorized neighborhood associations established under the 1991 revised Local Autonomy Law had a significant impact on common forest ownership (Yamashita et al 2009).…”

Section: Overview Of 11 Villages In Yamagunimentioning

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“…According to Yamashita et al (2009), when the government created the system for authorized neighborhood associations, it did not expect to see communities that managed iriai forests adopt this form to manage their commons. However, authorized neighborhood associations established under the 1991 revised Local Autonomy Law had a significant impact on common forest ownership (Yamashita et al 2009). Hatsukawa and Tsuji were the two Yamaguni villages that applied the new governmental law to managing their common forests.…”

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External impacts on traditional commons and present-day changes: a case study of iriai forests in Yamaguni district, Kyoto, Japan

Shimada

2014

Int J Commons

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Japanese iriai forests have been regarded as a model of institutions for collection action in the sustainable use of resources in studies on commons, as pointed out by Ostrom (1990) and McKean (1992). However, present-day iriai forests that have survived decades of legal and even greater economic and social challenges have undergone significant alteration. While we know that external conditions such as foreign competition from low-cost timber have depressed the Japanese forestry industry and thus reduced the health of Japanese forests as a whole, we do not know about the current state of the iriai forests in particular. Adaptation to external impacts is crucial for the survival of the commons in a modern industrialized society. This study examines external impacts on traditional commons and the resultant institutional changes in current Japan. We cannot easily track the changes in traditional commons without deep understanding of many cases, because the factors affecting their functioning are complex and diverse. Therefore, we opted to use the case study method to improve the empirical foundations for analyzing these complex phenomena. Our goal was to examine the institutional changes resulting from one source of pressure found in many commons near urbanizing areas in postwar Japan -an increase in newcomers -as well as from the pressure of foreign competition in forest products. We chose eleven villages in the Yamaguni district in Kyoto city that manage their own common forests and studied the documented rules in these communities. We used participant observation and also conducted interviews with villagers to obtain their sense of change over time, the impact of globalization, and the current status of the commons. This paper derived the following conclusions. First, the village community can adapt its institutions to external influences by supporting continuous institutional change. Second, although village communities can overcome most external impacts themselves, there is one impact, low-priced 208 Daisaku Shimada competition due to free trade in forest products which they cannot cope with independently. Third, regenerating local Japanese commons requires multi-level governance based on the principle of subsidiarity.

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A Nested Institutional Approach for Managing Bundle Ecosystem Services: Experience from Managing Satoyama Landscapes in Japan

Yashiro

Duraiappah

Kosoy

2012

Studies in Ecological Economics

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Effect of Instituting “Authorized Neighborhood Associations” on Communal (Iriai) Forest Ownership in Japan

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

Tokyo Metropolitan Parks as urban forestry assemblagesreframing more-than-human commons in the city

Tokyo Metropolitan Parks as urban forestry assemblagesreframing more-than-human commons in the city

External impacts on traditional commons and present-day changes: a case study of iriai forests in Yamaguni district, Kyoto, Japan

A Nested Institutional Approach for Managing Bundle Ecosystem Services: Experience from Managing Satoyama Landscapes in Japan

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