The Conflict Problem of the General Waste Policy A Case Study of the Resistance to the Beitou Incinerator in Taipei
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Ko, Yu-Fang
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
After the 70s, waste struggles resulted from the growth of economics and population happened everywhere in Taiwan. Followed by the execution of the incineration method, the waste problems seem to be alleviated. However, some researches proof that there are still many local resistances everywhere. It reveals that the incineration not only raised the political as well as social problems, but also concerns on toxic wastes.
This research focuses on the analysis of the waste management policy. The context of includes that the policy was first formulated in the 80s, and administrated during the two decades between 1984 to 2003, known as the Waste Management Program. The policy’s discourses showed that the government had made two policy-turns：from disposal to incineration, and from incineration to zero waste society.
The analysis of the policy shows that the incapability of local government, the central-oriented strategy, and was flawed by the incomplete institution system, causing problems like the lack of waste, inadequate incinerator management, toxic waste and the corruption, which were very much revealed by the local resistant groups.
In many resistant groups, the case of Beitou Incinerator in Taipei has motivated the construction about the public participation in law. Shi Pai residents have fought for their environment quality with governments for seven years（1997-2003）.Finally, local government agreed to legalize the behavior for the Shi Pai residents to help them to manage the Beitou incinerator. Shi Pai residents not only won the good environmental quality back , they also set up the formal cooperation mechanism for environmental management. Environment Protection Agency held national conferences to survey the policy of building incinerators and decided to cease it. The policy has been revised.
The conclusion is that local resistant groups are the key protectors to the local environmental quality when the institution system is incomplete and the public doesn’t own the environmental rights. They are the monitors to survey the decision-making and the process-administrating of policy. They are capable of challenging the incapability of governments. Such local-based environmental activism is the only way to achieve an environmental just society.
Subjects
一般廢棄物處理政策
鄰避
環境管理
都市環境
地方抗爭
waste management policy
NIMBYs
environmental management
urban environment
local resistance
Type
thesis
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