Natural Environment and Resources of Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture

Population , Natural Resources and Environment

Population-environment studies have implicitly permeated demography but only until the mid-20 century has the debate been rekindled and research expanded. This article reviews the origins and history of the population-environment debate and attempts to provide insight into the most recent approaches and methodology. Beginning with the most traditional relationships established between demograph...

Tourism And Natural Resources

Analyzing the Role of Agricultural Beneficiaries in Sustainable Management of Natural Resources and Environment (Case of Hamadan County)

The countries' economy is basically dependent on both human and the natural resources so that social development of each country depends on them directly or indirectly. Nonetheless, some problems including the rapid growth of the population, unsustainable and unplanned exploitation, and lack of public awareness of development and reclamation rules have given an increase to the degradation proce...

Epidemiology of tsutsugamushi disease and Japanese spotted fever in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

Tsutsugamushi disease is caused by infection with Orientia tsutsugamushi, whose vector is a chigger. Japanese spotted fever is caused by Rickettsia japonica, whose vector is Acarina. Both infections are classified as Category Four infectious diseases under the Japanese Infectious Disease Law (1,2). In 2004, Kagoshima Prefecture reported 54 cases of tsutsugamushi disease, the highest frequency i...

Blood biochemical values in Japanese Black calves in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

To obtain blood biochemical basic data of Japanese Black calves in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, blood samples were obtained from 582 clinically healthy calves on 27 farms. Calves were divided into three stages: the suckling stage (between 14 and 90 days of age, n=191), the early growing stage (between 91 and 180 days of age, n=200) and the late growing stage (between 181 and 270 days of age, n=...