Evaluation of People’s Awareness and Consensus Level to River Improvement Projects with Flood Control and Dam Construction for a Few River Basins

摘要

This paper describes the results of the questionnaire to survey the people’s awareness to the river improvement projects with the planning of dam construction (the Kouchigawa Dam) for the Kitagawa river running in Obama City and Wakasa Town, Fukui Prefecture. Three categories of Flood Control, Water Supply for irrigation, industries & tap water and Natural Environment Conservation ware considered as the objectives of river improvement projects. CVM and Conjoint Analysis were applied for the quantitative evaluation of people’s awareness to each project for flood control, water supply and natural environment conservation in the river basin. Approval, neutral or disapproval to the dam construction was also questioned with the evaluation of the willingness to pay (WTP).