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A Case Study on Busan-Gyeongnam Water Conflict: Focused on Emotional Dimension of Fisher & Shapiro(2005)

  • Korean Society and Public Administration
  • Abbr : KSPA
  • 2018, 29(3), pp.313-340
  • Publisher : Seoul Association For Public Administration
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Administration

KIM Cheolhoi 1

1한남대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study analyzed the reason that the water conflict between Busan and Gyeongnam is not solved for thirty years. The water quality of Nakdongkang River has been declined because of the development of the upper region of the river. Busan asked for the central government to secure the clean water supply, and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport planned to build Multi-regional Water Supply to use Namgang Dam and Riverbank filtration located in west side of Gyeongnam province. Local governments, citizen organizations and residents of west Gyeongnam, however, desperately opposed to the plan of central government for the reason of the threat of the right to live. Even though the central government tried to solve the conflict between two regions with various instruments, the negotiation has come to a standstill until now. This study analyzed the key factors and emotional dimensions of the conflict, and tried to find a way to solve the problems. Based on analysis result, the core causes that west Gyeongnam opposed to central government and Busan were emotional problems such as a sense of alienation in developing process, a sense of disregarded of their opinion through the unilaterally push policies of central government. To solve the old conflict of Busan-Gyeongnam, central government and Busan have to keep their minds the emotional dimensions of negotiation, such as appreciation, affiliation, autonomy, status, and role which Fisher and Shapiro emphasized, apply them on the new planning of negotiation and policy.

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