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

摘要

There is an increasingly common argument in the environmental management literature that much of the environmental and resource management is the management of conflict. One of the challenges, while managing such environmental conflicts, is to understand the dynamics of stakeholders in terms of their changing positions and interests. In this paper we present how a systems thinking and modelling study based on system dynamics, was used to understand the changing positions and interests of stakeholders in an environmental conflict. This study involved five phases, namely, stakeholder analysis, group model building, dynamic modelling, scenario planning and modelling, and implementation and organisational learning. The methodology was applied to a New Zealand case relating to a transportation infrastructure project, called the Transmission Gully project.