Governance of Mining in Palawan, Philippines: Collaborative Governance and Sustainability
The paper underscored the present collaborative governance landscape of mining governance in Palawan and its impact on the socio-economic and ecological conditions of mining communities by the presence of sustainability indicators or the absence of it. The study used the case study method using surveys, FGDs, in-depth analysis, and ground truthing. Results revealed that collaborative governance in mining is still a rhetoric, and theoretical among stakeholders. The Multipartite Monitoring Teams (MMTs) as an approach to multi-stakeholdership have failed to initiate collaborative governance in mining. Mining operations did not improve the economic life of most of the stakeholders, but have improved social services-education, health, and infrastructure projects in communities. The stakeholders have diverse views and opinions about mining, but believed that mining has both positive and negative impacts on their lives and the environment, and most of them seemed to incline toward negative perceptions about mining. The key indicators of sustainability of mining on socio-economic, collaboration, and ecological condition of the community, the Decommissioning Plan, and the economic performance of nickel in the world market, provided an analysis for factors of uncertainties of mining industry. These uncertainties were used as a logical framework for scenarios of mining industry in Palawan.. These scenarios were termed as: Utopian, Economic Priority, Civic Priority, and Dystopian which reflect the possible futures of mining industry in Palawan. Collaborative governance of mining could be effectively functional under certain conditions. Hence, a Model for Collaborative Governance anchored on effective dialogues was developed and designed based with the premise that collaboration reduces the risks of dispute and implementation failure in the policy cycle of environmental governance such as mining governance.
Sol de villa B.Rama
College of Business and Public Administration, Western Philippines University, Aborlan, Palawan,Philippines, 5302
国际会议
2011 International Conference on Public Administration(2011公共管理国际会议)
成都
英文
520-536
2011-10-18(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)