Expansion of Limited Applicability of Water and River Management Technologies

  • Yoshitani, Junichi (Environment Department National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)
  • Published : 2010.05.10

Abstract

This paper elaborates on difficulties when ones tried to apply domestically developed technology to other countries from both technical and sociological aspects. Next, the author proposes possible solutions to expand the applicability of domestic technology. The main one is breaking down a technology to smaller components so that anybody can clarify the applicability of each component. The author presents an example of this methodology to flood hazard mapping.

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