地域振興

Under pressure of trade liberalization, rural mountainous regions are confronted with critical situations. To cope with the situations, MAFF has tried to devise remedial measures for revitalizing the communities. Local goverments have also tried to implement regional development policies on the basis of their regional development planning. The regional development planning, however, is usually faced with some difficulties in incorporation of the multi-dimensional views of inhabitants with different backgrounds. The objectives of this paper are to examine a numerical method to evaluate the priorities for multi-dimensional goals in regional development planning and to investigate the effectiveness of the on-going regional planning. In this paper, we introduce an evaluation method applying AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) to make a weight decision for multi-dimensional regional planning and select Ajimu Town in Ohita Prefecture as a typical mountanious region. The major findings are as follows. 1. There exist the differences on priorities for goals among the groups categorized on the basis of region, s ex or occupation. 2. The integrated scenario in regional development planning is quite different from some scenarios preferred by each group mentioned above. 3. The preferences of female inhabitants potently affect the choices of regional goals for development. These findings suggest that local government should introduce some evaluation methods for multi-dimengional regional planning to improve the effectiveness of on-going planning which is all round and lacks stressed points and to make different sub-groups come to an understanding.