Basic Framework of Research on the Establishment of Iwate Recycling Basin Economic Area
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For human society to find methods of solving global environmental problems and maintain a sustainable society, it is necessary to recycle materials to minimize environmental burden. Agriculture, forestry and fishing industries and rural areas that can produce renewable energy, especially biomass energy, will be able to make significant contributions to solving global environmental issues. The question is what should be done to bring out the latent potential of regional resources. There are three main points that must be considered in relation to formulating fundamental strategy to achieve this aim. The first point is the development of basic technology to facilitate recycle of regional resources (Regional innovation). The second point is the establishment of new social system to make material recycling commercially viable (Business model). The third point is the creation of an entity that can promote regional innovation and establish the new social system. The purpose of this research is to analyze the basic condition of establishing basin recycling economic area. For the purpose of this research, we started survey over three regions in Iwate prefecture. Problems these regions are facing from the standpoint of use of regional resources are as follows: The first issue is that there is a large amount of discarded timber from thinning in the mountains. The second issue is the problem facing farmers of disposal of animal waste. The third issue is that 30-40% of paddy fields are forced to use as non- rice crop field. The fourth issue is demise of marine forest (barren ground). We promoted the following types of regional innovation in an attempt to solve these problems. The first initiative is to extract methane gas from animal waste and use this energy to carbonize discarded timber (Methane stock system). The second initiative is to use the charcoal for a wide range of objectives, including for the artificial reefs for marine algae. The third is to make ethanol from rice. And an entity which will establish and operate new social system must be considered continuously.renewable energyregional resourcesdiscarded timbermethane gasbarren groundcharcoalriceethanolsocial systemregional innovation
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