A Model Analysis of a Group Conflict between Development and Environment in Water Resources Development Project

Abstract

The conflict between people insisting on environment and people insisting on development comes to be seen frequently. Management of such conflict and inducing consensus between them must be considered on a future development project. Without such understanding, appropriate development would not be achieved. In this paper, people are defined as groups categorized by some features, and assumed to have distribution of opinions. Then, the conflict incidental to development project is modeled as interactive phenomenon of conflict situation and residents' opinion distribution between development and environment Through the model analysis, it can be seen how the conflict would reach stable states.