지방정부의 환경정책

Abstract

The environmental policy can be counted as a field of most considering regional particularities. In recent years, the seriousness of climate change due to global warming, the environmental policy of local government emerged as a significant challenge of decentralization. In Korea, 72% of the national office and approximately 80% of funding allocation is concentrated. That means, our government still evaluated as a centralized administrative system. Although ‘Participatory Government’ adopted decentralization as a national task to the degree of effort, but until now Korea decentralization is still in progress. In particular, the case of environmental policy, is the fact that not much authority to local governments that can be granted or expect when you look at the Environmental Policy Act and other relevant regulations. Environmental policy capacity of local government is weak pairs, but the role of local governments to provide optimal environmental conditions to be very important. Development or conservation, changes in the environmental conditions of the region determined by the local residents. Ultimately, including constitutional amendment to decentralization, the right of environmental decision should be relegated to the local residents.