Abstract
In late 1960's the social conflicts between local sufferers and unspecified majority of beneficiaries had been actualized in Japan caused by intensive expansion of public works in response to rapid economic growth. The Japan Society of Civil Engineers established the Subcommittee on Environmental Problems in July, 1970, with the purpose to cope with the above social situation and also to get an integrated view for environmental impacts which have ever been separately concerned in different disciplines. This paper deals with the approach to “environmental management”, which has been the recent target of the Subcommittee's activities, focusing on its difference from pollution abatement program or environmental impact assessment and categorization of management methodology. In addition to recent trend of environmental management in public works, the roles of professionals and citizens are discussed in detail for the case of river works as the most typical example of the approach. The future functional scope of environmental engineers including academic society is also suggested for the environmental management in information-oriented age. The content of this paper refers mainly to Workshops and Symposia promoted by the Subcommittee
