Introduction

Abstract

Many mature countries, including Japan, are confronting population decline and aging societies. Such a radical decrease of the population could adversely affect the sustainability of landscape management, as the issue is exacerbated by the lack of skilled local labor forces in landscape management. It is important, therefore, to develop methods for providing or re-providing appropriate labor for the sustainable management of landscapes, and how to sustainably reduce or shrink landscape management areas according to the available labor. In this chapter, an original concept of landscape management labor accounts is proposed, and the background, fundamentals, and perspective is explained.