A Study on the Operational Problems and Improvement Plan of Local Board against School Violence

A Study on the Differences in Perception among Experts and Public Officials for the Executive Agent of Environmental Affairs and National Policy Tasks

“…The interesting fact shown in previous studies with regard to this research method is that the respondents had different views about the executive agent of environmental affairs depending on their affiliation (Jeong et al, 2013;Park et al, 2013;Park et al, 2015). Professors or researchers were relatively more neutral or objective than other groups, whereas public officials were relatively sensitive about the role of their affiliation or interests.…”

“…Recently, studies have also been conducted on the effectiveness of transferring affairs by the Ministry of Environment with focus on the environmental sector. Park et al (2015) classified environmental affairs into effective environmental affairs of local governments and affairs that are difficult to manage and supervise based on the results of opinion polls conducted on experts and public officials in charge of environmental affairs in local governments in seven fields of environment (atmospheric environment, water environment, soil environment, nature conservation, resource circulation (or recycling), living environment and environmental health, and environmental policy general), and categorized them into affairs under metropolitan influence and affairs under local influence based on literature review (Table 1).…”

“…Based on the research findings by Park et al (2015), it would be more effective for the central government to manage the affairs in the fields such as 'atmospheric environment, water environment, nature conservation, and general environmental policy' that have the characteristics of metropolitan influence, and for the local governments to manage the affairs in the field such as 'soil environment, resource circulation, living environment and environmental health' that have the characteristics of local influence (Table 2). Local delegation and transfer of affairs with the characteristics of local influence will have greater effect (K.H.…”

“…Public officials in the Ministry of Environment tended to emphasize the role of the central government in environmental affairs, whereas public officials in local governments gave different views depending on whether they belong to metropolitan or basic local governments. Many public officials in the metropolitan governments responded that the metropolitan governments must be in charge of major environmental affairs except international agreements, whereas public officials in the basic local governments were somewhat negative about transferring environmental affairs to local governments due to lack of expertise and limitations in finances and human resources (Jeong et al, 2013;Park et al, 2013;Park et al, 2015).…”