1995 Volume 3 Pages 141-146
River environment in Japan has shown drastic change to lose its multifaceted functions with the development of economy and urbanization. Recently great efforts have been made to recover and enhance the river environment to meet the need of the residents. Here the necessity of comprehensive evaluation for the river envoronment is discussed and an exmaple of evaluation method is shown. The present method measures the degree of satisfactory in many kinds of residents' need based on themeasurable quantities in and around the river through the evaluation structure of the residents.
