Abstract
By employing the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution methodology, this paper models and analyzes a brownfield conflict that occurred at the Changzhou Foreign Language School in Jiangsu, China, in 2016. This conflict made national headlines when news reports revealed that a large number of students and staff suffered from health issues after the school moved to a new site that is built on recently restored land adjacent to the original “Chang Long Chemical” block. Since stakeholders in the conflict hold different strengths of preference, a new option prioritization technique is employed to elicit both crisp preferences and the strength of preferences for the decision-makers (DMs) in the conflict. The conflict analysis result is consistent with the actual trajectory of the conflict and provides strategic insights into the conflict. More specifically, equilibrium results suggest that the firm should have been required to thoroughly clean the site, the local government should not have relocated the school, and the environmental agency and other stakeholders should have closely monitored the firm’s activities. In short, strategic insights garnered from this case study indicate that positive interactions should be fostered among the local government, the enterprise, and the public to ensure sustainable brownfield land redevelopment in the future.
Highlights
What brownfield precisely entails differs from one jurisdiction to the
Public health crises in the process of brownfield land redevelopment have been frequent in the context of promoting industrial upgrading and de-industrialization in China
Reasons for this problem are ascribed to a lack of laws, standards, and policies for securing the process of brownfield land redevelopment
Summary
What brownfield precisely entails differs from one jurisdiction to the next. Brownfields refer to land previously used for industrial or commercial purposes with known or suspected pollution including soil contamination due to hazardous waste. The redevelopment of brownfields is placed at a high priority on their political agendas. Environmental pollution and public health crises have frequently occurred in the process of brownfield land redevelopment, leading to numerous conflicts among different stakeholders in brownfield redevelopment projects. Brownfield redevelopment has attracted attention from governments, communities, environmentalist, scientists, and researchers around the world. Brownfield-related conflicts have been extensively studied by scholars
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