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Understanding the Perceptions of Stakeholders in Environmental Conflict - Public-Supported Private Rental Housing Conflict in Busan Sasang-gu Jurye 3 District -

환경갈등에 있어 이해관계자들의 인식에 관한 연구 - 부산 사상구 주례 3지구 민간임대주택사업사례를 대상으로 -

  • Park, Jong-Sik (Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Cho, Seong Yun (Urban Infrastructure Research Division, The Incheon Institute) ;
  • Jung, Juchul (Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Pusan National University)
  • Received : 2019.04.15
  • Accepted : 2019.06.25
  • Published : 2019.08.31
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to understand the perceptions of stakeholders in environmental conflicts. The private rental housing project in Busan Sasang-gu Jurye 3 District, which took place in 2017 is one of many cases of environmental conflicts between developers and local residents. The case is considered as a typical failure of collaborative governance that has consequently caused negative impacts to both local residents and government. To understand why local residents could not come to consensus even though the majority of them were against the development project, we analyzed residents' perceptions and subjective opinions towards environmental conflicts. This study adopted 'Q methodology' to investigate human subjectivity. The results showed three distinguished types of subjectivity structures. Each type was named as 'collaborative governance advocates', 'public administration distrusters', and 'current local government supporters' based on their characteristics. Participants in all three types showed opposition to environmental damages that can be caused by the private rental housing development, but they revealed different perspectives on the importance of public participation and institutional responsibility in the process of decision-making. This study makes better understand what makes it difficult to build collaborative governance as a means of overcoming environmental conflicts.

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