サステイナビリティ研究

再生可能エネルギー

自立

自律

再分配

rural area

renewable Energy

self-Sufficiency

Autonomy

redistribution

英文：The decline of rural areas has much to do with the estranged relationship　between the city and the country due to　modernization. After World War II, our country patched up the economy by redistributing wealth with public works and tax grants to local governments and by movement to part time farming with other work by subordinance of rural areas by large-scale city businesses. “Wellbalanced national development” was achieved. However, in the 2000s rural areas were impoverished by the nation’s severe reduction of redistribution and the movement of employers overseas by　globalization, is threatening not just collapse of the community but management of local resources. In considering a future sustainable society, local/rural areas, which have been able to sustainably produce over a long time in a particular region, will actually be more important. Extinguishing the country just from the perspective of short term rational economics is not a wise plan. The use of renewable energy could hold the potential for new redistribution and alternative rural businesses, but systems including FIT are not suitable for these　purposes, and are more geared toward exporting profits to cities than contributing to rural promotion. To improve this situation, supporting autonomous efforts from the rural side while strengthening economic redistribution and changing systems is indispensible for developing sustainable communities.

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