A study on the influencing factors of river governance effectiveness in the metropolitan area: a case study on the Dali River Basin in Taiwan

Improving the governance effectiveness of river basin units (RBUs) is often the focus of academic studies. However, the literature on measuring the influencing factors of the river basin governance effectiveness in urban areas is relatively scarce. Therefore, this study employed the theory of govern...

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Main Authors: Chang-Yen Lee, Wen-Jung Chang
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Language:English
Published: IWA Publishing 2022-09-01
Series:Water Policy
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description Improving the governance effectiveness of river basin units (RBUs) is often the focus of academic studies. However, the literature on measuring the influencing factors of the river basin governance effectiveness in urban areas is relatively scarce. Therefore, this study employed the theory of governance across boundaries and adopted an exploratory research approach to discover influencing factors, namely Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and SPSS questionnaire survey. Resulting from the analysis of in-depth interviews, the top three attention-getting influencing factors in descending order are organizational structure, overall plan, and landscape recreation. In comparison, resulting from the quantitative analysis of the AHP questionnaire, the top three attention-getting influencing factors in descending order are flood protection, overall plan, and ecological conservation. These two findings are significantly different. This study's findings also indicate that the public's satisfaction with the individual governance effectiveness reaches a score of 80.06. The analysis results provide a feedback to RBUs, which can be a policy for revising the plan–do–check–act (PDCA) cycle in order to improve the governance effectiveness. HIGHLIGHTS Examines policy considerations from the perspective of the effectiveness of mutual interdependence governance.; AHP examines policies to reconcile the heterogeneity between RBUs and NRBUs.; Through the demonstration of multivariable linear equations, it can provide a reference for the feedback of the policy PDCA cycle.; Effectively shorten the information gap between supply and demand for executive decision-making.;
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spelling doaj.art-b8359022440843a78d08bbb1ae53bea82022-12-22T02:39:28ZengIWA PublishingWater Policy1366-70171996-97592022-09-012491434144910.2166/wp.2022.028028A study on the influencing factors of river governance effectiveness in the metropolitan area: a case study on the Dali River Basin in TaiwanChang-Yen Lee0Wen-Jung Chang1 Graduate Institute of National Policy and Public Affairs, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan. Department of Business Administration, National Chung-Hsing University, 145 Xingda Rd., South Dist., Taichung City 402, Taiwan Improving the governance effectiveness of river basin units (RBUs) is often the focus of academic studies. However, the literature on measuring the influencing factors of the river basin governance effectiveness in urban areas is relatively scarce. Therefore, this study employed the theory of governance across boundaries and adopted an exploratory research approach to discover influencing factors, namely Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and SPSS questionnaire survey. Resulting from the analysis of in-depth interviews, the top three attention-getting influencing factors in descending order are organizational structure, overall plan, and landscape recreation. In comparison, resulting from the quantitative analysis of the AHP questionnaire, the top three attention-getting influencing factors in descending order are flood protection, overall plan, and ecological conservation. These two findings are significantly different. This study's findings also indicate that the public's satisfaction with the individual governance effectiveness reaches a score of 80.06. The analysis results provide a feedback to RBUs, which can be a policy for revising the plan–do–check–act (PDCA) cycle in order to improve the governance effectiveness. HIGHLIGHTS Examines policy considerations from the perspective of the effectiveness of mutual interdependence governance.; AHP examines policies to reconcile the heterogeneity between RBUs and NRBUs.; Through the demonstration of multivariable linear equations, it can provide a reference for the feedback of the policy PDCA cycle.; Effectively shorten the information gap between supply and demand for executive decision-making.;http://wpol.iwaponline.com/content/24/9/1434analytic hierarchy process (ahp)dali river basineffective evaluationgovernance across boundariespdcariver basin governance
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A study on the influencing factors of river governance effectiveness in the metropolitan area: a case study on the Dali River Basin in Taiwan
Water Policy
analytic hierarchy process (ahp)
dali river basin
effective evaluation
governance across boundaries
pdca
river basin governance
title A study on the influencing factors of river governance effectiveness in the metropolitan area: a case study on the Dali River Basin in Taiwan
title_full A study on the influencing factors of river governance effectiveness in the metropolitan area: a case study on the Dali River Basin in Taiwan
title_fullStr A study on the influencing factors of river governance effectiveness in the metropolitan area: a case study on the Dali River Basin in Taiwan
title_full_unstemmed A study on the influencing factors of river governance effectiveness in the metropolitan area: a case study on the Dali River Basin in Taiwan
title_short A study on the influencing factors of river governance effectiveness in the metropolitan area: a case study on the Dali River Basin in Taiwan
title_sort study on the influencing factors of river governance effectiveness in the metropolitan area a case study on the dali river basin in taiwan
topic analytic hierarchy process (ahp)
dali river basin
effective evaluation
governance across boundaries
pdca
river basin governance
url http://wpol.iwaponline.com/content/24/9/1434
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