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Sustainable Community Co-development Through Collaboration of Science and Society: Comparison of Success and Failure Cases on Tsushima Island

Year: 2021

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: This 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.

Source: Springer eBooks

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-8632-3_6

Authors: Yasunori Hanamatsu, Tomomi Yamashita, Shota Tokunaga

Institutions: Kyushu International University, Kyushu University, JMA Research Institute (Japan)

Language: English

Topic: Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration

Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: Kyushu University, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society

Awards: Comparative Study on Border Tourism in East Asia: Changing Society in Border Regions and its Impact on International Relations with Neighboring States, The End of the Cold War and the Eurasian Border, Environment and Society: Inter-Disciplinary Study toward Developing the Global Comparative Theory, The Construction of Trans-Border Geopolitics of East-China-Sea Islands, 環境・災害・健康・統治・人間科学の連携による問題解決型研究