A SUMMARY OF THE SPECIAL SESSION

LAND RECLAMATION AT SEAS

Abstract

This paper presents a summary of the special session “Land Reclamation at Seas.” The target of the session is to identify technologies which are necessary to construct man-made land environmental-friendly and economically. The session consists of two parts: one part is presentation of the papers regarding with environmental topics on land reclamation at seas and the other part is a panel discussion among panelists presenting the papers. Presented are four papers concerning field observation on algae growth around coastal structures and one paper concerning the general topics on land reclamation projects in Japan. The evaluating methods of algae growth on artificial structures are introduced and its applicability to seawalls of man-made land is confirmed by the result of monitoring surveys.