Holistic Management of River Design and Change of Human Behavior

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K06255
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Civil engineering project/Traffic engineering
• Research Institution: Kumamoto University
• Principal Investigator: Hoshino Yuji 熊本大学, くまもと水循環・減災研究教育センター, 准教授 (70315290)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 河川景観 / グリーンインフラストラクチャ～ / 包括的マネジメント / 空間デザイン

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Cities globally face significant risks from climate change, and are necessity of climate change adaptation strategy is highly recognized as a global scale. Capital city of Denmark Copenhagen is highly evaluated city to tackle with this issue. This paper present deployment process of Copenhagen cloudburst plan and surrounding support systems. By using municipal reporting and interview with the member of Municipality Copenhagen and Danish construction consultancy, we showed importance of the supporting system that to amend the water payment law with economic rationality and created a situation necessary for implementing climate change adaptation measures to increase the effectiveness of the cloudburst plan. More over, continuous downpours contributed to being able to be set up
as a plan with reality for politicians, governments, and citizens. Although, 300 projects against heavy downpours planned and implemented gradually with well support systems.

Free Research Field

景観工学