Management of the River Environment Taking Public Awareness into Consideration

Abstract

Riversides have become a place for leisure, and several kinds of projects have been progressing in Japan. At the same time, we, Japanese, frequently experienced heavy rainfalls which caused many deaths and enormous property damage. It seems to be apparent that the problems of disaster prevention and of river environment are related to one another, so that these should be discussed on the whole for to be solved.
In this paper, the necessity of management of the river environment taking public awareness into consideration is described, based upon the results of ‘Survey of Awareness for River Environment’ carried out at Wallingford in 1989 and ‘Survey of Awareness and Practice for Flood Disaster Prevention’ at Nagasaki in 1988.