What makes rural, traditional, cultures more sustainable? Implications from conservation efforts in mountainous rural communities of Japan

Agriculture & Biology

• rural communities 81%
• plant cultural practices 71%
• Japan 50%
• shifting cultivation 30%
• rural development 28%
• gender 27%
• weaving 26%
• arts 25%
• spatial variation 23%
• gender differences 21%
• interviews 21%
• households 20%
• cooking 20%
• villages 20%
• questionnaires 20%
• labor 19%
• economics 14%
• industry 14%
• methodology 6%

Social Sciences

• traditional culture 81%
• rural community 63%
• Japan 49%
• art studies 12%
• regional distribution 12%
• regional difference 9%
• rural development 8%
• gender 8%
• segregation 7%
• habits 7%
• agriculture 6%
• village 6%
• gender-specific factors 6%
• sustainability 6%
• labor 5%
• industry 4%
• questionnaire 4%
• resources 3%
• interview 3%
• economics 3%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• traditional culture 100%
• gender 25%
• shifting cultivation 10%
• rural development 9%
• questionnaire survey 9%
• art 8%
• labor 7%
• village 7%
• household 6%
• spatial variation 6%
• ash 6%
• sustainability 6%
• organization 6%
• agriculture 5%
• young 5%
• industry 5%
• economics 4%
• resource 4%
• distribution 2%
• analysis 2%
• method 1%