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Sustaining the Flow: JapaneseWaterways and New Paradigms ofDevelopment
Paul Waley and Martin Purvis
Introduction
The potential for conflict between ecological and non-ecological objectives is widely apparent in the comprehensive programme of river restoration projects that has been initiated in Japan over the past two decades.1 Yet, despite the potential importance of these initiatives and the intense domestic scrutiny that they have provoked, little has been written in English that reviews river restoration in Japan (Gippel and Fukutome, 1998; Waley, 2000b). Hence, the aim here is to place the Japanese experience of river restoration and integrated river management – or comprehensive river planning, as it is called in Japan – within the context ...
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