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Statutory Bodies, Land Use Planning and Conservation in Singapore: Issues and Challenges for Governability

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  • Maria Francesch-Huidobro

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This article discusses the dynamics of state–society interactions with regard to land use planning policy and its effect on nature conservation where ministries and statutory boards represent the government and environmental NGOs embody civil society. It examines the role of three statutory boards in the campaign against the de-gazetting of the Lower Peirce Reservoir Catchment Area (1990–1992), and considers the impact of the issue on future relationships between the government, the statutory boards and the NGOs. Although the campaign did not appear to diminish the integration of the statutory boards with their parent ministries, the common ground that they shared with environmental NGOs was often at variance with the positions taken by the ministries. The tensions between integration and autonomy and between accountability and independence, and the ways in which they were resolved, have important implications for the role which statutory bodies can play and, more widely, for Singapore's system of governance. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2006

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  • Maria Francesch-Huidobro, 2006. "Statutory Bodies, Land Use Planning and Conservation in Singapore: Issues and Challenges for Governability," Public Organization Review, Springer, vol. 6(3), pages 277-288, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:porgrv:v:6:y:2006:i:3:p:277-288
    DOI: 10.1007/s11115-006-0017-9
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