Impacts of 150 Years of Modernization Policies on the Management of Common Forests in Japan: A Statistical Analysis of Micro Census Data

After World War II, Japan’s policy makers believed that common forests were underutilized because of their legal status and organization method under customary iriai-type ownership and that modern ownership in the form of group ownership, such as forest producers’ cooperatives, or as individual, sep...

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Main Authors: Takuya Takahashi, Koji Matsushita, Yoshio Yoshida, Tetsuji Senda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services) 2019-10-01
Series:International Journal of the Commons
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Online Access:https://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/936