カナダ・ブリティッシュコロンビア州の沿岸域環境政策と環境回復への取組み

抄録

Briti sh Columbia is the coastal province on the pacific Ocean where encompasses about 27,000 km of deeply incised picturesque coastline as well as 6,500 coastal islands. This particular area contents abundant bio-resources and natural environment. Following the concentration of population and the economic development in the coastal zone, environmental issues have been consequently occurred. Especially, in large estuaries, many natural habitats have been dramatically impacted or lost. So that many environmental countermeasures and approaches have been positively implemented toward the environmental restoration .

In this paper, we report the summary of the Coastal Environment Management Policy, some restoration projects , and Fraser River Estuary Management Program (FREMP) in British Columbia, also we state that we must be taking in to the coastal zone in Japan leaming from practice efforts while putting together the research efforts of visiting British Columbia and existing literature.