The Right to Urban Streams: Quantitative Comparisons of Stakeholder Perceptions in Defining Adaptive Stream Restoration

Chang-Yu Hong, Eun-Sung Chung and Heejun Chang
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Chang-Yu Hong: Department of Urban Environmental Research, Jeju Research Institute, Jeju 63147, Korea
Eun-Sung Chung: Department of Civil Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, Korea
Heejun Chang: Department of Geography, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201, USA

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 22, 1-17

Abstract: Assuring healthy streams in the urban environment is a major goal for restoration scientists, urban planners, and city practitioners around the globe. In South Korea, many urban stream restoration efforts are designed to provide safe water to society and enhance ecological functions. We examined the extent to which the individual interests and different values of multiple stakeholders were considered in previous decision-making in two urban stream restoration projects. The relevant data on stream restoration were collected through the nominal group technique (NGT) and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) for the two stream cases of a populated inland area and a coastal region in South Korea. The AHP results provide information about the comparative weights of the values of ecological restoration (priority score: 0.487), social restoration (priority score: 0.231), and landscape revitalization (priority score: 0.279) of the Ahn-Yang stream and ecological restoration (priority score: 0.527), social restoration (priority score: 0.182), and landscape revitalization (priority score: 0.290) of the Sahn-Jee stream. The stakeholders of the populated metropolitan area had a relatively high awareness of their role in environmental restoration, thus it was natural for them to place a high value on social restoration.

Keywords: urban stream restoration; stakeholder perceptions; analytic hierarchy process; nominal group technique analysis; comparative stakeholder analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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