Research theme for competitive and other funds (4)：
Landscape Aesthetics
Study in Old Pictorial Maps
Study on Mountain Village
地方生活圏・過疎地域の持続可能性
Papers (59)：
マツオ ヤスタカ. Depression and Restruturing of Japanese Forestry and the Searching for the Regional Identities. in Matsuo, Y. ed., Action Group and the Formation of Region and Place, Senshu Universit Publisher. 2019. >297-336
マツオ ヤスタカ. Regional Characteristics of the Seashore Villages and Towns of the Hokuriku District in the Pre-Modern Period. in Matsuo, Y. ed., Action Group and the Formation of Region and Place, Senshu University Publisher. 2019. >145-193
マツオ ヤスタカ. On region. in Matsuo, Y ed., Action Group and the Formation of Region and Place. Senshu University Publisher. 2019. >3-43
マツオ ヤスタカ. Restructuring of Japanese Forestry and the Sustainability of More Advanced Forestry Regions. Leimgruber, W. and Chang, C.eds, Rural Areas Between Regional Needs and Global Challenges, Springer. 2019. >205-225
マツオ ヤスタカ. The type and purpose of the pictorial village maps drawn in the feudal domains and the regional characteristics imprinted/concealed in them. Studies in the Humanities/ The Journal of the Senshu University Research Society. 2018. 102. >1-39
Action Group and the Formation of Region and Place: Search for the Regional Identity
The Senshu University Publisher 2019 ISBN:9784881253380
Examining the supporting policies/in the light of present lifestyles in depopulated mountain areas in Japan
Shaker Verlag, Aachen, Germany, Mountain regions in transformation, eds. by W. Leimgruber et al. 2012 ISBN:9783844009309
Preliminary consideration on the current functions of three- tier traditional local communities, Kyoto
Social Capital and Development Trends in Rural Areas Vol.7, MARG, Kyoto, Japan 2012 ISBN:9784907830083
Geographical Marginality as a Global Issue
Department of Geography, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand 2010 ISBN:9780473170424
Social capital cultivation in the formation of the seashore villages and harbor towns and the three-tier local/regional networks in the pre-modern Hokuriku District, Japan
(The 1st Workshop on Social Capital and Development Trends of Coutryside in Knowledge Society 2019)
The type and purpose of the pictorial village maps drawn in the feudal domains and the regional characteristics imprinted/hidden in them
(The 61st conference of the Association of Historical Geographers in Japan 2018)
Regions; On regionalism, or the contemporary features for implementing regions and regional identity
(The 15th Workshop on Social Capital and Development Trends in the Japanese and Swedish Countryside 2018)
History and Culture in the Seto inland-sea Region; Medieval pictorial maps, trade and cultural exchange
(regular research meeting 2017)
The regional structure and its dynamism in and around the Tokugawa-Shogunate horse grazing land in the Ryosou upland area; local lifestyles and the socio-economic networks
(The 14th Workshop on Social Capital and Develoment Trends in the Japanese and Swedish Countryside 2017)
Royal Scottish Geographical Society(a member of advisary board)
, International Geographical Union(IGU) Commission 04.27: Marginalization, Globalization and Regional and Local Response (a member of the steering committee)
, 歴史地理学会
, 人文地理学会
, RESSG (Rural Economy & Society Research Group), UK
