2005 Volume 4 Pages 93-108
This study intends to satisfy the goal, which imposed on the environmental planning such as "The sustainable development". From the standpoint of ecological planning, quantitative cognition of interrelationship between blessing of nature and favor of scientific technology and also demand of man is important for this goal. For this purpose, five parameters such as I) Capacity of C02 fixation, 2) Capacity of cooling, 3) Capacity of space, 4) Capacity of water resource, 5) Capacity of wooden resource are assumed in this study, and the environmental capacity and mechanisms of fluctuations of environmental capacity of river basin as Eco-system on the three metropolitan areas in Japan are analyzed by using mathematical modeling and also Geographical Information System.
