Commonness and Challenge of Landscape Ecology and Landscape Architecture Journal Article in Japan

—From Aspects of Planning, Citizen Participation, and Disaster—

Abstract

This paper investigated the commonness and issues between Landscape Ecology and Management (LEM) and Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture (JILA). The author explored the journal articles regarding Planning, Citizen Participation, and Disaster. The following points are identified common aspects: an aspect that captures planning objects from both conservation and development perspectives, evaluating the meaning of citizen participation of environmental conservation, and an aspect that uses disaster as a clue to environmental restoration and planning. Problems identified are: In LEM study, actual planning achievement and verification of its effect are required. In JILA study, basic principle and its application are required.