ABSTRACT

Environmental conflict management involves the management of multiple stakeholders with conflicting stakes. This study proposes and demonstrates the application of evaporating cloud as a tool to the area of environmental conflicts. Through a structured methodology and logical diagramming, the evaporating cloud builds on the traditional stakeholder analysis to analyse environmental conflicts. The Transmission Gully motorway, a well-known New Zealand case of environmental conflict, is used as a case study. Following a rational level stakeholder analysis, the evaporating cloud is used to dissect different stakeholder conflicts, based on the explicit wants and actions, needs and requirements, and goals of the disputants and the implicit assumptions underlying the conflicts. The tool further provides a mechanism to reach a core conflict through a synthesis of three separate stakeholder conflicts in the case. Overall, this study provides an improved method for analysing environmental conflicts and offers a practical tool for analysing stakeholder arguments and their conflicts systematically.

摘要

环境冲突管理涉及管理具有冲突利益的多个利益相关者。本研究提出并论证了将蒸发云作为一种工具在环境冲突领域的应用。通过结构化的方法和逻辑图表，蒸发云建立在传统的利益相关者分析的基础上，以分析环境冲突。以新西兰著名的环境冲突案例——Transmission Gully 高速公路为案例研究。在理性层面的利益相关者分析之后，蒸发云用于剖析不同的利益相关者冲突，基于争议者的明确需求和行动、需求和要求以及目标以及冲突背后的隐含假设。该工具还提供了一种机制，通过综合案例中三个独立的利益相关者冲突来达成核心冲突。总体而言，本研究为分析环境冲突提供了一种改进的方法，并为系统地分析利益相关者的争论及其冲突提供了一个实用的工具。