Fig 1.
Location of Hokkaido and its fourteen subprefectures.
Fig 2.
Total population of Hokkaido, 1920–2010 (estimates) and 2015–2040 (projections), provided by the Statistics Bureau, MIC of Japan (2012), and National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (2013).
Table 1.
Geographical and social variables explaining farmland abandonment in each period.
Fig 3.
Total area of abandoned or developed farmlands in the four periods.
Fig 4.
Distribution maps depicting the ratio of abandoned farmlands (top) and developed farmlands (bottom) from 1976 to 2009.
Table 2.
Posterior distribution means and 95% credible intervals for the model intercept and the coefficients of predictors for each period.