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A Geographical Study on Water Environmental Changes in the Urban Rivers in Tokyo, Japan  

Taniguchi, Tomomasa (Department of Geography, Rissho Univ.)
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Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment / v.38, no.spc, 2005 , pp. 54-57 More about this Journal
Abstract
It is important to assess the change of water environment in the present and past. In this study, present-day water quality standards are applied to the expressions in literary works to reconstruct the historical water environment including the quality. As the result, the historical reconstruction of water quality has been made distribution of water quality from 1905 to 1935 for the Sumida River in Tokyo.
Keywords
historical water environment; urban river; Tokyo; geography; LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research);
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