2013 年 27 巻 1 号 p. 29-33
As Japanese Impact Assessment is applied to only huge projects, it does not work for pursuing a sustainable society. More human actions including real estate developments, should be applied to IA. One way is to expand the application of IA through introducing concise EIA and the other is to apply IA at planning stage through Strategic Environmental Assessment. These are major challenges for making Japan as a sustainable society.