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What motivates policy transfer in coastal management? A Historical Review of South Korea’s Land Reclamation and Restoration Policies
In literature on coastal land reclamation and ecological restoration policies, the role of policy transfer has gotten limited attention vis-à-vis domestic political factors. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by clarifying the role of Dutch actors in developing South Korea’s coastal land reclamation and restoration policies. In order to do so, we first develop an analytical framework that operationalizes ‘policy transfer’ into distinguishable factors. This framework is used in the analysis of the two Korean coastal development cases. The first case is land reclamation policy pursued from the 1960s. South Korea has been one of the most active countries worldwide in terms of land reclamation and the Saemangeum Reclamation Project with the longest seawall in the world is regarded as the highlight of Korean land reclamation policy. While the development of the reclaimed land in Saemangeum is still in progress, wetland restoration of previously reclaimed lands started to receive attention in the 2000s. Several restoration projects have been undertaken or announced mainly by provincial governments. In both cases, there have been long-established policy transfer activities, especially with Dutch engineers and political leaders. The analysis is based on collected data including policy documents, media reports, and semi-structured interviews. Our analysis reveals that no full-fledged policy transfer has occurred in both cases but that powerful actors use elements of foreign policy in order to shape the national discourses. Based on our analysis we discuss under what conditions what modes of policy transfer are likely to happen. We conclude that existing literature has hitherto somewhat downplayed the inherent political nature of policy transfer. Our paper makes a case for a more combined and integrated assessment of foreign and domestic factors in the study of coastal management projects. This requires that public policy literature and policy transfer literature are linked more systematically.
What motivates policy transfer in coastal management? A Historical Review of South Korea’s Land Reclamation and Restoration Policies
In literature on coastal land reclamation and ecological restoration policies, the role of policy transfer has gotten limited attention vis-à-vis domestic political factors. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by clarifying the role of Dutch actors in developing South Korea’s coastal land reclamation and restoration policies. In order to do so, we first develop an analytical framework that operationalizes ‘policy transfer’ into distinguishable factors. This framework is used in the analysis of the two Korean coastal development cases. The first case is land reclamation policy pursued from the 1960s. South Korea has been one of the most active countries worldwide in terms of land reclamation and the Saemangeum Reclamation Project with the longest seawall in the world is regarded as the highlight of Korean land reclamation policy. While the development of the reclaimed land in Saemangeum is still in progress, wetland restoration of previously reclaimed lands started to receive attention in the 2000s. Several restoration projects have been undertaken or announced mainly by provincial governments. In both cases, there have been long-established policy transfer activities, especially with Dutch engineers and political leaders. The analysis is based on collected data including policy documents, media reports, and semi-structured interviews. Our analysis reveals that no full-fledged policy transfer has occurred in both cases but that powerful actors use elements of foreign policy in order to shape the national discourses. Based on our analysis we discuss under what conditions what modes of policy transfer are likely to happen. We conclude that existing literature has hitherto somewhat downplayed the inherent political nature of policy transfer. Our paper makes a case for a more combined and integrated assessment of foreign and domestic factors in the study of coastal management projects. This requires that public policy literature and policy transfer literature are linked more systematically.
What motivates policy transfer in coastal management? A Historical Review of South Korea’s Land Reclamation and Restoration Policies
Kang, Yi hyun (author) / Dieperink, Carel (author) / Hegger, Dries (author) / USL-B - Centre de recherches en science politique (CReSPo)
2021-01-01
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
710
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