土地改良事業の評価への「地域社会会計」手法の適用

Abstract

Evaluation of Land Improvement Projects is very important, because they have strong influences on agriculture, living and social environment, and natural environment in rural areas. This paper has the following three objectives; (1) to summarize the external effects of lamd improvement projects and clarify the reasons why they should be financed by central and local governments, (2) to arrange the significances and necessities of evaluation of land improvement projects and discuss methods of evaluation of the ones, and (3) to discuss rural social account as a important method of evaluation of land improvement projects. For evaluation of land improvement projects, rural social account should be developed without delay, because it is the most suitable method from the viewpoint of sustainable agriculture, vital rural community and perpetual natural environment.