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Development vs. environment in Taibei

Entwicklung vs. Umwelt in Taiwan
[journal article]

Grano, Simona Alba
Tu, Ping-Lan

Abstract

Although Taiwan arguably needs civil and official collaboration on environmental protection, the implementation of an efficient system of environmental regulations has often been hindered by the many actors involved in the process of environmental governance (state, economic actors, civil society, m... view more

Although Taiwan arguably needs civil and official collaboration on environmental protection, the implementation of an efficient system of environmental regulations has often been hindered by the many actors involved in the process of environmental governance (state, economic actors, civil society, media), whose interests are divergent. Consequently, there is no uniform, homogeneous authority for environmental governance but rather a variety of official and less official agents of authority whose interests and powers overlap and compete. In this paper the authors will introduce a case study dealing with the controversy surrounding the construction of an alternative road connecting Danshui with Taibei City (namely, the Danshui North Shore Road Project, Danbei daolu) to elucidate what the key influences are that govern environmental power dynamics between different agents with conflicting (or, sometimes, colluding) interests and how these multiple levels of interaction are negotiated by the various players. Their hypothesis holds that although environmental policies are, for the most part, mandated from the top, at the local level their implementation can be bypassed, altered or stalled by these various agents.... view less

Keywords
transportation policy; Taiwan; governance; power; conflict; road construction; environmental policy; environmental protection; Far East; theory of the state

Classification
Special areas of Departmental Policy
Ecology, Environment
Area Development Planning, Regional Research

Method
theory application; descriptive study

Free Keywords
social groups; local governance; contemporary

Document language
English

Publication Year
2012

Page/Pages
p. 121-154

Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 41 (2012) 2

ISSN
1868-4874

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works


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