Abstract
In order to solve the global environmental problems and to create a sustainable society, it is necessary to establish the environmental science as an interdisciplinary science. One of the indices of the institutionalization of the environmental science is the environment-related departments in universities. Because the discipline of environmental science has not been well established yet, there is a gap between ideals and realities about research and education in these departments. One of the factors that caused the gap is the way these departments were established. The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize the mechanism of the establishment of environment-related departments, focusing on departments related to Construction (e. g. the department of civil engineering, the department of architecture, etc.). As a result, the higher education policy as well as efforts of establishment of the environmental science turns out to be one of the most important factors to the establishment mechanism of environment-related departments.
