From the Catchment to Coast in Japan

The Past, the Present, and the Future of Japanese Water Resources and Human Activities

Takashi Asaeda, Tetsunori Inoue, Tadanobu Nakayama:, Ryuichiro Shinohara

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443247637
• Index: Biological Sciences

From the Catchment to Coast in Japan: The Past, the Present, and the Future of Japanese Water Resources and Human Activities addresses seven broad questions relating to water resource management in Japan: What water reforms have occurred in Japan over the past 100 years? What is the current condition of Japan related to regional and rural communities, major water-related assets, and salinity and water quality? How have the water reforms to date influenced policy and management? How do traditional and modern water resources differ from Western countries? What challenges face Japan over the next and beyond 30 years, particularly due to climate change?, and more.Other questions answered include: What are possible policy and management responses to climate change and other future challenges? What can be done to improve decision-making processes given the general lack of trust in the governments, agencies, and their current processes? What is the way ahead for policy and management reforms in Japan?, and much more. - Offers thorough information about east Asian river catchments that currently no other book in English provides - Provides comprehensive case studies which show how Japan managed to develop sustainably by using Ecohydrology principles - Edited by leading experts in Ecohydrology, all with years of experience and research in the field

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter 1. The nature and society of Japan
• Chapter 2. The history of Japanese nature and human activities
• Chapter 3. Historical changes from catchment to coast
• Chapter 4. Water resources management and impacts
• Chapter 5. Human–wildlife interactions
• Chapter 6. Traditional landscape and human activity
• Chapter 7. Recent and future environmental problems
• Chapter 8. Lessons from Japanese watershed management
• Appendix
• Index