건강한 도시환경 거버넌스 구축을 위한 영향요인에 관한 연구

A Study on Influence Factors for Governance System of Healthy Cities Environment

Since 2000, interests in the Healthy Cities Environment projects has been growing fast in Korea. However, only a few studies focus on practitioners’ capacity for participation in and cooperation with various sectors in Healthy Cities Environment initiatives. Therefore, this research attempts to analyze affecting factors to form partnerships among Healthy Cities’ public officers, local residents and health-related communities in Jinju and Changwon City. First, to meet the research objectives, formation levels of Healthy Cities governance in Jinju and Changwon City was analyzed, then influential factors to form them in relation to geographical characteristics of local population was studied. The factors attributing to formation of Healthy City governance was categorized as personal,institutional and environmental. In addition, the participatory levels of Healthy Cities Environment governance was categorized as participation, cooperation, joint-decision which build the framework of Healthy City Environment governance. In conclusion, inevitable foundation to build collaborative governance is impartial relationship among network actors. The actors, thus, should strongly recognize their roles and capacity for collaborative participation. Local residents should build interests in local issues, will for participation, and capacity for local autonomy as well. Local NGOs should have legitimacy, morality, expertise and transparency. Accordingly, the actors need to become socially responsible in governance building, suggest rational policy options and share obligations. In particular, local governments should share related resources, power and information with other actors. It is imperative that they develop flexible and cooperative leadership which enables them to support situation-specific governance.