Study on “Crowding of Environmental Plans” of Local Governments in Japan

Abstract

This paper clarifies a present situation of local environmental plans in Japan including environmental basic plans and new environment-related plans at city level. In order to describe history of local environmental planning, literature survey of administrative documents was conducted. Two case studies were also conducted to analyze real effects of increasing plans. Two local governments are different in terms of number of environment-related plans. There is a need not only for meta-design of environmental planning but also for avoiding citizen conference and groups which participate to planning and implementation process of environmental plans, competing one another in the future.