Decision-making Process and Adjusting Interests to Environmental Governance

最后，我们完成了通过该项目取得的成就的报告。本报告侧重于当前关于环境治理的理论论证和实际做法方法。然后，根据本课题的研究成果，对该领域最先进的学术成果进行了综述。这些发现使科学和地理具有开放性，并管理多样化和多层次的环境问题，因此，从“战略”的角度来论证可持续社会。特别是，考虑到我们在项目期间提供的案例研究，报告强调了非政府行为者在解决环境问题方面的作用，流域管理的利益调整和决策过程，以及可持续城市管理的治理必要条件。第一部分阐明了该研究领域最先进的学术成果，并指出了需要进一步研究的问题，如为什么我们现在必须关注环境治理；第二部分论述了非政府行为者及其对环境治理结构性变化的影响。第三部分主要论述了流域管理。第四部分从政策整合、公众参与和指数创建三个方面对可持续城市治理的可能途径进行了思考。第五部分根据前几章的研究结果进行了总结。对该领域的理论和迄今取得的成果进行了评价，并指出了未来需要解决的战略问题。最后，我们论证了关注环境问题的地理尺度的重要性，并指出了“多层次环境治理”的可能性，这对政策的形成和当今涉及多个不同行为者的这个新的多样化和多层次的世界构成了挑战。

Finally, we have completed a report on achievements made through the project. This report focuses on current theoretical arguments and methods of actual practices on environmental governance. Then, it reviews the most advanced academic achievements on this field of study, based on findings from our research project. These findings allow to have scientific and geographical openness, and to manage diverse and multi-leveled environmental matters, and therefore, to argue sustainable society based on "strategic" point of view. Especially, considering from the case studies that we have provided during the project period, the report emphasizes on roles of non-governmental actors to resolve environmental matters, processes of interest adjustments and decision-makings for river basin managements, and necessary conditions for governance of sustainable city managements.The report has five parts. First part clarifies the most advanced academic achievements of this study field and points out some further research topics to be addressed, such as why we have to pay attention to environmental governance now Second part argues about non-governmental actors and their influences over structural changes in environmental governance. Third part mainly focuses on river basin management. Fourth part considers about a possible way of governance to mange a sustainable city, by especially focusing on policy integration, public participation, and index creation.The fifth part concludes from the findings shown through previous chapters. It evaluates the theory and the achievements made so far at this field, and points out the strategic issues that needs to be addressed in the future. Finally, we argues the importance to pay attention to geographical scale for environmental matters, and points out the possibility of "multi-level environmental governance" that challenges to policy formation and to this new diverse and multi-leveled world today involving multiple and diverse actors.