Urban residents need to live in an ecologically sustainable way to mitigate and adapt to climate change. To discuss the model of urban ecological life, this paper focused on Satoyama landscapes and reviewed academic articles on the existing cases of Satoyama conservation by urban residents in the Greater Tokyo Area. We analyzed activities performed by participants, benefits to participants, and targeted and achieved ecosystems. Several findings were obtained from the review of published literature. First, the participants were mainly elderly men aged 60 years or older, who were not necessarily local people and who were motivated mostly by the need to conserve nature and improve their health. People with intellectual disabilities also enjoyed the benefits of Satoyama woodland management. Second, participants tended to recognize benefits in terms of health promotion, social cohesion, recreation, and resource utilization, rather than landscape and biodiversity conservation. Third, there were different directions of Satoyama conservation from the perspectives of nature and humans. The broader ecosystem beyond each site was not necessarily considered in Satoyama conservation. These findings show the potential of, and the necessity for, attracting other urban residents by including various activities that consist of not only vegetation conservation but also communal events based on different preferences. There is also a need for balancing environmental and socio-economic perspectives, and the targeted ecosystem should be further explored in collaboration with experts in ecology and landscape planning to make urban ecological life feasible.

城市居民需要以生态可持续的方式生活，以减缓和适应气候变化。为了讨论城市生态生活的模式，本文以里山景观为重点，回顾了关于大东京地区城市居民里山保护现有案例的学术文章。我们分析了参与者开展的活动、参与者的利益以及目标和实现的生态系统。从已发表的文献回顾中获得了一些发现。首先，参与者主要是 60 岁或 60 岁以上的老年男性，他们不一定是当地人，主要是出于保护自然和改善健康的需要。智障人士也享受了里山林地管理的好处。第二，参与者倾向于认识到健康促进、社会凝聚力、娱乐和资源利用方面的好处，而不是景观和生物多样性保护。第三，从自然和人类的角度来看，里山保护存在不同的方向。里山保护不一定考虑到每个地点以外的更广泛的生态系统。这些发现显示了通过包括各种活动来吸引其他城市居民的潜力和必要性，这些活动不仅包括植被保护，还包括基于不同偏好的公共活动。还需要平衡环境和社会经济视角，应与生态学和景观规划专家合作，进一步探索目标生态系统，使城市生态生活变得可行。