No.73
| August 20, 2003 |
| ● | The German Legal System of Ocean-borne Wind-Power Generation Regulation on location of facilities Yoriaki Narita President, Japan Energy Law Institute Professor Em. Dr. Yokohama National University Selected Papers No.6  |
| ● | Ecotourism: Regarding forests, rivers and seas as a single cycle Shiro Honjo Manager, Takeno Snorkel Center Visitor Center (Blue Museum) |
| ● | An education program about the sea - Making a water sampler - Nobuo Sakurai Manager, Global Environmental Planning Group, Environmental Division Kajima Corporation |
The German Legal System of Ocean-borne Wind-Power Generation Regulation on location of facilities
Yoriaki NaritaPresident, Japan Energy Law Institute
Professor Em. Dr. Yokohama National University
The wind power's share of total power consumption in Germany is only 4% today, however, the German federal government made the plan to raise this share to 25% by 2015. Since it is not feasible for various reasons to establish large scale wind-power generation stations, so called "wind farms" on land, the government is working on regulations for the construction and operation of wind farms facilities at sea. The planned permission system, grounded on the special law, to construct facilities on the territorial sea, environmental concerns, and the domestic regulation for Germany's EEZ are instructive to Japan.
Ecotourism: Regarding forests, rivers and seas as a single cycle
Shiro HonjoManager, Takeno Snorkel Center Visitor Center (Blue Museum)
The Center seeks to implement a program of ecotourism that applies environmental education in each of the four seasons, studying the circulatory system that embraces forests, rivers and seas. Rather than experiencing natural settings in isolation, participants learn the story of nature from a holistic approach. We expect that tourists will be encouraged to visit repeatedly and to study environmental topics on their own.
An education program about the sea
- Making a water sampler -
Nobuo SakuraiManager, Global Environmental Planning Group, Environmental Division Kajima Corporation
At the Kajima Corporation Hayama Marine Science Laboratory, we develop products aimed at preserving and reproducing the environment and resources of wet areas and conducts educational programs to teach people about the oceans. When one of our pupils said, "I want to take water samples from the sea floor," we were faced with a problem: Water samplers are expensive, and anyway the commercially available models are too large. We decided to build our own, and used the project to teach the children about the sea.