Abstract
In this paper, I arrest environmental governance as a generation-like concept and investigate a condition to enable shifts from government to governance. I show an analysis frame explaining a determinant to promote environmental governance using four characteristics (an element condition, a demand condition, a supporting group, an interest). In addition, I turn dynamism of those mutual reinforcement into a model.
I apply this generation model of the environmental governance and perform example analysis of the management of the Toyo River where Shitara dam construction work is pushed forward now. There is an intermittent embankment in the Toyo River and is the very interesting example in thinking about the way of “the river improvement not to rely as possible on the dam”. The irrigation water of the Toyo River changes the Atsumi Peninsula troubled with chronic shortage of water into the best agricultural production zone, and the development in the seaside industrial zone of the Mikawa Gulf is progressing. But the water utilization of the Toyo River that was excessive than flow quantity destoroied the ecosystem and the community of upper basin.
In late years, the composition of this complicated interest showed the sign of the big change. The new institutional frame for identifications of dam business estimation is created by the financial crisis of the country and the local government. It promotes the reinforcement of the element condition and accelerates mutual reinforcement in the model inside and is causing big dynamism. Through the example of the Toyo River where these many interests were complicated, I submitted a viewpoint to catch a condition to promote “generation of the environmental governance” as for the essence of the problem.
