@article{oai:kindai.repo.nii.ac.jp:00005339, author = {鶴田, 格 and 濱, 朝子}, journal = {近畿大学農学部紀要, Memoirs of the Faculty of Agriculture of Kinki University}, month = {Mar}, note = {[Synopsis] Artificial ponds have been an integral part of irrigation facilities for paddy fields in Japan. However, with rapid industrialization in the post-war era, a lot of former irrigation ponds were abandoned, especially in urbanized areas, transforming themselves into dirty garbage dumps. From the 1980s, however, irrigation ponds remaining in urban areas started to be considered as important amenities which provide people with water-related recreation, leisure, and landscape. This paper tries to identify problems that confront a grass-roots activity to conserve an abandoned reservoir in an urban area. Aoike-pond in west Nara City was formerly utilized and maintained by a nearby rural community, but is now left unused and surrounded by houses and apartment buildings. The pond is now owned by the Nara municipal government, which regards it as a mere site for building public facilities. A group of neighborhood people launched a campaign to conserve the pond from 2003, besides organizing various events to promote the pond as a place to learn biodiversity as well as local history. The campaign encountered major obstacles, mainly in three different domains, namely, bureaucracy of municipal government, internal feud within the group, and lack of understanding among neighborhood communities. This case seems to represent a serious challenge of how to manage natural resources without any long-established community basis. One possible solution may be to create partnerships among existing organizations, including neighborhood associations, local government and the water user's association that formerly used the pond., application/pdf}, pages = {59--72}, title = {〈原著〉都市化地域に残存する元農業用ため池保全の課題--奈良市学園前の蒼池を事例として}, volume = {46}, year = {2013}, yomi = {ツルタ, タダス and ハマ, アサコ} }