Decision-making Process and Adjusting Interests to Environmental Governance

最后，我们完成了一份关于通过该项目取得的成就的报告。本报告着重于当前环境治理的理论论点和实际做法。然后，根据我们的研究项目的结果，回顾了这一研究领域的最先进的学术成果。这些发现允许有科学和地理的开放性，并管理多样化和多层次的环境问题，因此，基于“战略”的观点来论证可持续社会。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中的作用，流域管理的利益调整和决策过程，以及可持续城市管理治理的必要条件。第一部分梳理了环境治理研究的最新成果，并指出了一些有待进一步研究的问题，如为什么我们现在必须关注环境治理。第二部分讨论了非政府行为体及其对环境治理结构变化的影响。第三部分是流域管理。第四部分从政策整合、公众参与和指标制定三个方面探讨了可持续城市管理的可能途径。第五部分总结了前几章的研究结果。对该领域的理论和研究成果进行了评价，并指出了今后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这个涉及多个不同行为体的新的多样化和多层次的世界提出了挑战。

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.