2025-07-14 森林総合研究所
図1. 林業収入が2つの組合で異なる背景
＜関連情報＞
- https://www.ffpri.go.jp/press/2025/20250714/index.html
- https://www.ffpri.go.jp/press/2025/20250714/documents/20250714press.pdf
- https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/15/9/1509
日本の家族林における林業の活性化と持続可能性に影響する要因-阿蘇とオーストリア・シュタイアーマルク州の比較から Factors Affecting Activeness and Sustainability on Forestry in the Family Forests in Japan—From the Comparison between Aso in Japan and Styria in Austria
Hirofumi Kuboyama,Nobuyuki Tsuzuki and Seira Eda
Forests Published: 28 August 2024
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/f15091509
Abstract
Forestry in Japan and Austria share many similarities in their natural and social conditions. However, the Family Forest Owners (FFOs) in Japan seem not to be active and sustainable. To understand the factors affecting activeness and sustainability in family-owned forests in Japan, in 2021 and 2022, questionnaire surveys were done with members of Forest Owners’ Cooperatives (FOCs) in Aso, Japan, and Styria, Austria. Survey responses were comparatively analyzed via correlation analysis and binary logistic regression. Timber production was found to be more active in FOC Styria than in FOC Aso. One reason for this was the high-income dependence on forestry in Styria. Higher income was realized by self-harvest and the larger size of forest holdings and forest stands. The younger age of the members in FOC Styria, strongly affected by the pension system, leads to a higher self-harvest ratio. The culture of a sole child inheriting the family forest maintains the general size and scale of owned forests and stands in Styria. High distribution costs in FOC Aso reduced forestry income. As a result, sustainability was reduced in Aso because the availability of successors was low, and elderly forest owners who were once motivated by forestry tended to quit forestry.
