Building Bridges for Sustainability
Communicative Behavior Study as Local Discursive Practice for Participatory Planning and Governance System Advances
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Novieta Hardeani Sari
This paper demonstrates an overview of the local discursive practice in Indonesia and development of general participatory planning theories to date, especially in the context of "communicative behaviour" and "socio-cultural geography" frames that occur in the social interaction processes, for instance, discourse or social group discussion. The aim is to propose an alternative communication model for participatory planning and civic engagement in sustainable governance systems. It means the communication model that will use as an aid dialogue between the government and non-government will address a local equity voices and communicative action, for social justice and pathway-wellbeing in Indonesia. It will summarize the general strengths and limitations of these alternative communication models, but at the same time, this study offers to develop rhetorical and dialectical designs as a communication approach to persuade and engage more people and stakeholders to take part in pathway-wellbeing prospectively. With reference to the set of three other studies in which areas community communicative behaviour identification offers advances in which areas such cultural discourse analysis, spatial knowledge management and politic of governing needs to link and be complemented respectively. The paper intends to capture a development of communication approaches from recent studies, both for participatory planning and governance system advances.
Research on the Status and Development in Asian Environmental Administrative Public Interest Litigation
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Hongqing Teng
As today’s Asia is seeing an unprecedented environmental crisis, eco-civilization has been made a crucial state strategy by countries concerned. Hence the building of a administrative public interest litigation system according to law is the best approach to safeguarding the environmental rights of citizens and achieving environmental justice. Aimed at environmental protection, environmental administrative public interest litigation safeguards the environmental rights of citizens by means of administrative litigation. If the government power is not subject to proper supervision and control, abuse of power may ensue, resulting in greater damage to the public interest in the environment. To cope with worsening environmental problems and safeguard national and individual environmental rights, there are no other alternatives but to resort to administrative litigation, supplemented by NGO, public interest litigation by the average citizens, remedy, etc. To gain an insight into problems and find effective solutions to such problems, it is necessary to study cases in recent years in Asian countries and probe into the strength and weakness of the similar systems in each country.
Communicating About the Environment : A Bridge Between the Local and the Global
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Steven Woods
The tension between the local and the global is a microcosm of the interactions surrounding issues of the environment. All environmental problems are local, but still relate to and interact with larger ecological systems as well. This paper will examine rhetorical constructions of the “local” and how they can serve as a bridge for discussions about worldwide issues overall while still preserving the integrity of the local themed message. These insights can help to build a unifying strategy of communication about environmental problems by increasing the understanding of ecological systems and their interrelationships and their connections to social relationships. Such insights can also help counteract the attempts to polarize and diminish efforts to address environmental well being by those who profit from its destruction.
