EEZ 골재채취단지 주민지원사업 관련 갈등해소를 위한 거버넌스 체계 구축

Environmental groups and local residents have disputed that the aggregate collection in EEZ has raised marine environmental degradation, depletion of fish stock, etc. However, the costs caused by the aggregate collection are not likely to be compensated since the damage is hard to prove and does not meet the legal requirements of compensation for loss or damages. Nevertheless resident support programs based on “Aggregate Collection Act” has been in practice to relieve the tension with residents. These programs are sociopolitical rewards to promote public projects such as aggregate supply and demand as well as to cooperate with local residents. However, since existing resident support programs was a top-down process and lacks communication with the residents, the conflicts appear to be exacerbated. Therefore, this paper suggests a council for resident support programs (a collaborative governance model), where the programs are conducted based on the cooperation with local residents, and the private and public sectors join. Success factors are the transparency of the decision-making procedures based on voluntary private-public partnerships and the disclosure and provision of information to resolve information asymmetric phenomenon among the council members. The council needs to be established based on the ordinance of a local government, and the composition of the council needs to keep a balance between private and public sectors and to include neutral experts. In addition, it should prescribe the decision-making system that as many members as possible can come to an agreement by building a social consensus among the members.