Stakeholder Management of Local Resources in Obama Hot Spring Areas, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

This research identifies the present situation of stakeholder management of local resources in Obama hot spring area, Nagasaki Prefecture. The main findings are as follows. 1) The use of local resources are different for different stakeholders There are few stakeholders that utilize geological and historical resource and folk arts because they are not recognized as recreational resources. 2) The number of ways that geological and historical resources and folk arts are used is fewer than others because so few stakeholders utilize these resources. 3) These geological and historical resources and folk arts are rarely mentioned in stakeholder's web articles for the above e reasons. Based on these findings, we propose a list of considerations for reviewing local resource management to utilize geological and historical resources and folk arts in Obama hot spring areas