Case Study of Basin Governance on Puzih River in Chiayi County － A Collaborative Perspective

• Main Authors: Huan-Sheng Lin, 林煥笙
• Other Authors: 潘競��
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76502491109722827197

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 國家政策與公共事務研究所 === 97 === In recent years, public problems have increasingly become more complex. Central and local governments have focused on collaborative approaches of governance strategy as a mainstay of governance regimes. Therefore, in the ongoing processes of economic, social and cultural globalization, collaboration has been playing a major role in the view of intergovernmental relation. In the light of this, the concept of collaborative governance is used in this case study of river pollution remediation project on Puzih river in Chiayi county〔Puzih River Pollution Remediation Project（PRPRP）, Chiayi, Taiwan〕. By intensively exploring the collaborative governance process of the PRPRP, this research attempts to interpret the link and interaction between the official and non-official participants, and to find out the determinant factors and problems which affect the collaborative governance process of the PRPRP in Chiayi. To the PRPRP in Chiayi, there is a very special context and the true causes of successful remediation are certainly worth exploring and analyzing. Thus, this research used the methods of literature analysis and in-depth interview to investigate the collaborative factors actually affecting the operation of the PRPRP, including the starting conditions, institutional design, facilitative leadership, and collaborative process, in order to generalize the results and findings and put forward practical policy recommendations. The results of this research showed that the PRPRP in Chiayi indeed was deeply influenced by the collaborative factors described above. This research also found six collaborative factors in the PRPRP that are theoretically and empirically soundsupport , including 1) the support from the highest leader, 2) broad and inclusive initial agreements, 3) maintaining smooth status of communication platform, 4) gradually building trusting relationships between the collaborative members, 5) a highly effective policy implementation on local environmental protection bureau, and 6) cohering highly stable social capital. These critical factors to a great extent influenced whether or not the PRPRP would produce successful collaboration. Furthermore, this research proposes several policy recommendations for the management of the PRPRP in the future: establish an exclusive agency of basin governance as soon as possible, strengthen external accountability mechanism of the PRPRP, and create multiple effective channels for public participation in planning remediation plan for sustainable development. In addition, the official and non-official participants should develop local strategic partnership and focus on benchmarking issues of experience transformation. Finally, the official should make good use of marketing strategies to broadly promote the successful experiences of the PRPRP in conjunction with the effort of flourishing the tourism in Chiayi.