Environmental policy change in two transitional societies: a comparative study on anti-incinerator construction in Guangzhou and Taipei

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Asian Geographer Pub Date : 2018-11-17 DOI:10.1080/10225706.2018.1547201

Natalie W. M. Wong

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Growing the volume of solid waste disposal has been generating numerous social conflicts in recent years, and challenging the transitional societies like Guangzhou and Taipei. This essay compares the dynamics between two cities in the greater China region in reaching a consensus on changing solid waste management policy following anti-incinerator protests in Taipei, Taiwan, and Guangzhou, mainland China by exploring several related questions: How does environmental activism alter changes in the environmental policies of two cases with different political systems? What are the conditions for emerging environmental activism and policy changes? How has the changing coalition opportunity structure changed environmental activism and affected the change in policy? Finally, to what extent do environmental activism and policy change reinforce the process of political transition among these political systems? Through the lens of an advocacy coalition framework (ACF), drawing on the formation of political coalitions and interactions among policy actors are the variables that affect policy change related to incinerator construction in Guangzhou and Taipei, to explore the larger issue about the political transformation of environmental management in these transitional societies, and revisit the application of ACF in transitional societies.

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两个转型社会的环境政策变迁——广州与台北反焚化炉建设的比较研究

摘要近年来，固体废物处理量的增加引发了许多社会冲突，并对广州和台北等转型社会提出了挑战。本文通过探讨几个相关问题，比较了台湾台北和中国大陆广州的两个大中华区城市在反对焚烧炉抗议后就改变固体废物管理政策达成共识的动态：环境行动主义如何改变不同政治制度的两个案例的环境政策变化？新兴的环境行动主义和政策变化的条件是什么？不断变化的联盟机会结构是如何改变环境行动主义并影响政策变化的？最后，环境行动主义和政策变化在多大程度上加强了这些政治制度之间的政治过渡进程？通过倡导联盟框架（ACF）的视角，借鉴政治联盟的形成和政策参与者之间的互动是影响广州和台北焚烧炉建设政策变化的变量，探讨这些转型社会环境管理的政治转型这一更大问题，以及重新审视ACF在转型社会中的应用。

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