Controversial Issues in Water Consumption Risk Governance: A Case Study of the Fourth Stage of Central Taiwan's Erlin Science Park Development Project
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Yang, Huei-Jhen
Abstract
Recently, developmental disputes have continued for years in Taiwan, and the Fourth Stage of Central Taiwan-Erlin Science Park Development Project is one of them. From the beginning, the Siangsihliao Land Expropriation issue and the effluent pollution problem have already caused many farmers and environmentalists went onto streets to express their angry; however, the dispute on agricultural and industrial water consumption plan went on immediately. So many farmer protests have been happening, and so many there will be. The essential problem is that even the society moves progressively but the risk governance of nation, when facing debates derived from industrial development, still remain the same as in old society. This study, by the dispute on the Water Consumption Plan of the Fourth Stage of Central Taiwan-Erlin Science Park, will examine the authoritative decision-making on science and technology and its delaying and hiding risk society result. Although the issue deriving from the Water Consumption Plan of the Fourth Stage of Central Taiwan-Erlin Science Park is just part of the disputes of Central Taiwan-Erlin Science Park Development Project, we could discover that our government lacks of steps of risk communication in decision-making process on science and technology; no matter the risk communication in policy making processes, the explanation to related engineering in environmental impact assessment or the residential remonstrance caused by engineering practice, the related government departments do not pay attention to any of them and communicate seriously, which gives rise to many debates. Therefore, by examining the importance of risk communication on science and technology decision-making through the Water Consumption Plan of the Fourth Stage of Central Taiwan-Erlin Science Park, we hope this will offer some reflections on existing environmental governed policies, and help the government to develop a set of governance on policy making which is ran through by risk communication. Hence, the government could control risks more broadly and the civil participation could be more practical and workable. In addition, under the dramatic impact of global climate change, extreme climates emerge frequently and carrying capacity decreases. It is not applicable for the old mode of risk governance but needs a new one that risk communication is the core of risk governance in which changes the authoritative decision-making mode and avoids the delaying and hiding risk society continued. In this way, it should raise the whole societal environment, government policies and public life to a higher level.
Subjects
Water Consumption of Fourth Stage of Central Taiwan Science Park
Risk Communication
Hiding Risk
Climate Change
Type
thesis
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