Study on the Actual Condition of Participation Type Activities for Management of Environment Conservation in Okinawa Pref.

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to research the actual condition about residents' and citizens' participation for management of the environment volunteer activities and to find the ideal of the support for the activity development. The study is based on the questionnaire and interview survey to 29 groups of environment volunteer activities in Okinawa prefecture, which presents the features characterize of subtropical island area. The result is follows two types of activities are found by differences of the base, the aim and activity field. As a whole, various programs at conservation fields have done, but, for the direct maintenance of the fields itself such as planting cleanup and breeding wildlife, there is at the rate of 19% of whole programs. Some of groups have problems of being short of founds, persons of ability and public participation in their communities, skills in practice. Therefore, in the future, for managing the organization itself and developing the activities, it is important to arrange the support system based on community involvement.