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Democratization and Capacity Building for Environmental Governance: Managing Land Subsidence in Taiwan

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  • Ching-Ping Tang

    (Department of Political Science, National Chung Cheng University, 168 University Road, Ming-hsiung Chia-Yi, 621 Taiwan, ROC)

  • Shui-Yan Tang

    (School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California, Lewis Hall 312, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626, USA)

Abstract

A major challenge for any decentralizing regime is to develop more inclusive and participatory decisionmaking processes and to be responsive to conflicting demands from diverse constituencies while maintaining its governing capacity. Using Taiwan's experience in managing groundwater overextraction and land subsidence in its coastal areas, in this paper we demonstrate how democratization at its early stages may create added difficulties for the political system to face when trying to solve environmental problems. Yet in the long run, democratization may lead to an increase in participative and integrative governing capacities, bringing about more effective and equitable solutions to complex environmental problems.

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  • Ching-Ping Tang & Shui-Yan Tang, 2006. "Democratization and Capacity Building for Environmental Governance: Managing Land Subsidence in Taiwan," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 38(6), pages 1131-1147, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:38:y:2006:i:6:p:1131-1147
    DOI: 10.1068/a37375
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    1. Shui-Yan Tang & Ching-Ping Tang & Carlos Wing-Hung Lo, 2005. "Public Participation and Environmental Impact Assessment in Mainland China and Taiwan: Political Foundations of Environmental Management," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(1), pages 1-32.
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