Analysing Stakeholder Dynamics in Environmental Conflict:A New Zealand Transport Infrastructure Project

摘要

There is an increasingly common argument in the environmental managementliterature that much of the environmental and resource management is themanagement of conflict. One of the challenges, while managing such environmentalconflicts, is to understand the dynamics of stakeholders in terms of their changingpositions and interests. In this paper we present how a systems thinking andmodelling study based on system dynamics, was used to understand the changingpositions and interests of stakeholders in an environmental conflict. This studyinvolved five phases, namely, stakeholder analysis, group model building, dynamicmodelling, scenario planning and modelling, and implementation and organisationallearning. The methodology was applied to a New Zealand case relating to atransportation infrastructure project, called the Transmission Gully project.