Evaluating the Rationality of South Korea’s Fine Dust Policies: A Procedural Analysis of Air Quality Management | Chapter 8 | Geography, Earth Science and Environment: Research Highlights Vol. 8

Air pollution has been a major field of environmental policies in South Korea, like in other industrialized countries. South Korea has achieved rapid economic growth since the 1970s. As a side effect of material prosperity, it has experienced environmental pollution in advance of other developing countries such as Brazil, India, and China. Therefore, emission control policies regarding fine dust have been introduced and executed to solve the air pollution problem. Since 2018, the government of South Korea has strengthened its environmental policies to solve the problem of fine particulate matter in the air. Because of these strict regulations, diesel cars have been replaced with cleaner vehicles, and coal power plants have been shut down. Despite these government efforts, some researchers assert that fine dust programs have failed in Seoul, the capital of Korea. In other words, they conclude that the central and local governments designed and implemented the policies unreasonably. Despite these criticisms, this study attempts to prove that the government has meticulously prepared the regulations on fine particles and that its policies were rational in general. Also, it tries to demonstrate that the policy scheme has been properly established. To attain these research goals, the theory of procedural rationality is adopted. As a result of the analysis, six steps of procedural rationality were identified in the Korean policy on fine dust: problem identification, goal setting, searching for alternatives, consequence prediction, comparison of alternatives, and policy decision. In conclusion, this study provides suggestions for environmental policies in other metropolitan cities, especially in developing countries that suffer from severe air pollution. This study mainly focused on procedural rationality so follow-up studies could be expanded in other metropolitan cities in developing countries.

 

Author (s) Details

 

Sang-hyeon Jin
School of Public Administration, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea.

 

Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/geserh/v8/4941

Historical Path Dependence in the Turkish Automobile Industry and the Possibility of Path Creativity | Chapter 7 | Recent Trends in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 6

 The terrestrial continent change taking place among Turkey’s automotive manufacturing, within the limits of subjective studies, creating a historical outlook, the region, announced today stems from the significance of global integration centers. In this framework, Turkey is located betwixt geographic continent changes to create operating limits of the automotive manufacturing, the global unification of the indicator is due primarily to the experience that the reveal. Thus, while Turkey is an appealing market for car result, on the other hand, adequate improvement over come into sight the production of trucks and other automotive brand, such as buses has not existed achieved. Regarding Turkey, the 1929 experience performs to have been profitable. As a result, OYAK and TOFA had to wait until 1971 to start an automotive assembly facility accompanying licence agreements. There has existed a noticeable increase in sectoral result numbers since the opening of two automotive conveniences, but this trend has not happened adequately supported by the administration through the incentive arrangement, and in the late 1970s the production of the automotive manufacturing has decreased. At the beginning of the last century, the tool industry, that was shaped under the structural incidents on the functional effectiveness of the horse delivery of freight, gave birth to the bulk and mass production methods formed by Ford with the idea of competition. It can produce examples in a short period of four months in Turkey in 1961, as proved by an indication of the dependency on a very long time wasting that is not technology importation road, such as five age. How to break the path of commitment demonstrates that it is a difficult task. Path dependency is concept to result from the education arrangement.

Author(s) Details:

Sitki Selim Dolanay,

Istanbul Topkapi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RTASS-V6/article/view/11413