@inproceedings{oai:kutarr.kochi-tech.ac.jp:00000954,
 author = {Nagano, Masao and Nagano, Masanobu and Mabuchi, Yasushi},
 book = {Society for Social Management Systems Internet Journal},
 issue = {1},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {Once bamboo trees, particularly Phyllostachys pubescens is the most commonly seen kind in Japan, were planted near villages, and used to be utilized for construction materials or a seasonal provision. However, most of those bamboo forests are now abandoned since economic and social situations have been changed. Without human control, bamboo forests have enlarged their propagation area by their unique asexual reproduction system, which uses rhizomes, and consequently it has depreciated the value of both artificial and natural forests planted beside those bamboo forests. For those reasons, today bamboo forests are often treated with a serious social issue. Our research team has aimed at Phyllostachys pubescens’s biological characteristics, thrusting speed and asexual reproduction system, and proposes to use bamboo as a sustainable energy resource for the local industry and life. In order to use Phyllostachys pubescens for a sustainable districts energy resource, it is an urgent matter to develop the efficient reproduction and management system as well as to verify the quality, economical feasibility, and convenience of Phyllostachys pubescens for the energy resource. Meanwhile, because appropriately controlled bamboo forests have much faster assimilation potential of carbon dioxide than other popularly seen kinds of tree in Japan, it is assumed that utilization of bamboo trees for the district energy will contribute to the resolution of the global warming not only in Japan, but also in China, south eastern Asia, and Latin American countries where bamboo kinds are popularly grown.},
 publisher = {Society for Social Management Systems},
 title = {Utilization of Bamboo Forest for a District Energy Resource : an Example of Phyllostachys Pubescens},
 volume = {5},
 year = {2009}
}