An cross-cultural study of prcosdural fairness of citizen participation and social acceptance of environmental management plan in EU and Japan

本研究的目的是考察欧盟和日本公民参与对环境管理计划社会接受度的影响。我们在德国伦格里奇和其他城市进行了两次环境管理计划社会接受调查。这些调查的结果表明，公民对该计划的评价不仅从计划的预期结果方面，而且从对参与程序的公平性的感知方面。调查结果还表明，公民参与项目不仅增强了公民对其当局的信任，而且增强了参与者的权力。我们还对日本Kuwana和Tajimi的调查进行了分析，以比较德国和日本社会对环境管理计划和公民参与的接受程度的影响因素。调查结果显示，社会接受程度的主要决定因素是公民参与的程序公平，与德国的调查结果相同。此外，我们还在荷兰和日本进行了基于情景的对比实验，以考察声音和信仰相似性对社会接受计划的影响，以及公民参与计划的权威和参与者对制定计划的信任。结果表明，声音和信念相似性通过对权威和参与者的信任对社会接纳有正向影响。

The purpose of our study was to examine the effect of citizen participation on social acceptance of environment management plan in EU and Japan.We conducted analyses on two surveys on social acceptance of environment management plan we conducted in Lengerich and other cities, Germany. The results of theses surveys revealed that the citizens evaluated the plan not only from the aspect of expected outcomes of the plan, but also from the aspect of perceived fairness of the participatory procedure. The results of surveys also indicated that the citizen participation projects enhanced not only citizens' trust for their authorities, but also the participants' empowerment.We also conducted analyses on the surveys in Kuwana and Tajimi, Japan in order to compare the determinants of social acceptance of the environment management plan with citizen participation between Germany and Japan. The results of surveys revealed that main determinant of the social acceptance was procedural fairness of citizen participation, same factor as the result of German surveys.Furthermore, we conducted comparative scenario-based experiments between the Netherland and Japan in order to examine the effects of voice and belief similarity on social acceptance of the plan and trust for the authority and participants of citizen participatory project to make the plan. The results indicated that voice and belief similarity had positive impacts on social acceptance through trust for authority and participants.