Yakushima Island: Landscape History, World Heritage Designation, and Conservation Status for Local Society

Shibasaki, Shigemitsu

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-61896-8_7

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“…In this regard, Hirano (2019) claims that "functions" carried out by forests and "values" recognized by people should be distinguished, explaining the latter's advantage in terms of its potential in indicating specific interactions between the subject (people) and object (forests) [30]. Furthermore, Shibasaki (2018; demonstrated that the designation of protected areas (e.g., World Natural Heritage site) emphasizes the importance of the natural environment itself and restricts the customs of the local communities such as traditional festivals or hunting [31,32]. Referring to the results of this study, restriction of local activities involving various social relations could invite the decline in cultural services, while protecting flora and fauna.…”

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Evaluation of a Structure Providing Cultural Ecosystem Services in Forest Recreation: Quantitative Text Analysis of Essays by Participants

Hirahara

2021

Forests

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Cultural ecosystem services are nonmaterial benefits that individuals acquire from the ecosystem, such as recreation, aesthetic enjoyment, and tourism. The quantification of cultural services is considered difficult to accurately make compared to other forest ecosystem services. Although some studies evaluate cultural services from forest recreation, “simple quantification” based on easy-to-obtain data is criticized for disregarding the local context and missing essential details. Therefore, this study evaluates a structure providing cultural services, and the local or detailed factors missed by simple quantification, while illustrating objective and statistical evidence with careful observations and a comprehension of local society. This study focuses on urban resident participation in natural resource management through recreational activities in Japanese mountain villages, using Fujiwara District, Minakami Town, Japan, as a case study, and by conducting a quantitative text analysis of 424 essays containing participants’ experiences and impressions. Using the software KH Coder, the Jaccard index is used to calculate co-occurrence relationships between frequently used words, visualizing the results in a network diagram. Additionally, several codes are added to keywords that characterize this case, and correlations between each code are examined. From the analysis, we discovered that social factors, such as interaction with comrades and locals, considerably influence participants’ positive emotions.

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Evaluation of a Structure Providing Cultural Ecosystem Services in Forest Recreation: Quantitative Text Analysis of Essays by Participants

Hirahara

2021

Forests

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“…A part of this area has been registered as a Natural World Heritage Site since 1993. The details of the study site are described in Tsujino and Yumoto (2007), Shibasaki (2017), and Kurihara and Aiba (2020).…”

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Scavenging on a Carcass of Sika Deer by Introduced Raccoon Dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides) in Spring: A Case Report in the World Heritage Site of Yakushima Island, Japan

Kurihara

2023

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Understanding the behavior and ecology of non-native species is important to assess their impact on food webs and ecosystem functions and to facilitate the management of non-native species. The present study reports a case of scavenging on a deer carcass by mammals, especially introduced raccoon dogs and native Japanese weasels, in the World Heritage Site of Yakushima, Japan. A sensor camera was placed near the carcass from March to May 2022 to record scavenging behavior of mammals. Out of at least six species of mammals filmed, raccoon dogs and weasels fed on the carcass. Raccoon dogs almost monopolized the carcass, i.e., raccoon dogs were filmed around carrion more frequently and spent more time scavenging than weasels. Raccoon dogs and weasels were filmed around the carcass at similar times in a day, and no overt aggression was observed between the two species, but weasels were displaced by raccoon dogs. Japanese macaques and sika deer avoided and never fed on carrion. The present study suggests that raccoon dogs contribute to carrion decomposition in the World Heritage Site of Yakushima and that comprehensive studies of carrion availability and the scavenger community could help promote the management of introduced raccoon dogs in Yakushima.

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“…"Jomon-Sugi (big old cedar)" is the popular hikers' destination in Yakushima island (Shibasaki, 2018). Hikers take shuttle buses to the trailhead and walk for about ten hours, to complete the whole trail.…”

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Application of the double-bounded dichotomous choice model to the estimation of crowding acceptability in natural recreation areas

Aikoh

Shoji

Tsuge

et al. 2020

Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism

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Yakushima Island: Landscape History, World Heritage Designation, and Conservation Status for Local Society

Cited by 7 publications

References 3 publications

Evaluation of a Structure Providing Cultural Ecosystem Services in Forest Recreation: Quantitative Text Analysis of Essays by Participants

Evaluation of a Structure Providing Cultural Ecosystem Services in Forest Recreation: Quantitative Text Analysis of Essays by Participants

Scavenging on a Carcass of Sika Deer by Introduced Raccoon Dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides) in Spring: A Case Report in the World Heritage Site of Yakushima Island, Japan

Application of the double-bounded dichotomous choice model to the estimation of crowding acceptability in natural recreation areas

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