Stakeholder analysis of river restoration activity for eight years in a river channel

Abstract

From 1998 to 2003, stakeholder analysis was conducted to investigate an origin and continuity of river restoration project by local stakeholders. The project includes introduction of catch-and-release regulation of trout and remaking Sabo dam to slit Sabo dam in a river channel. In the stakeholder analysis, four attributes of stakeholder; such as power, legitimacy, urgency, and position were demonstrated. Then Stakeholder Typology was created to overview stakeholders’ characteristic. After that, how the past 8 years project was promoted and how future project should be promoted was described. Network structure was built to arrange these descriptions. Each stakeholder had one or more attributes of power, legitimacy and urgency. Definitive stakeholders, who have three attributes, played a major role to assure the project. Definitive stakeholders were local residents and they first introduced C&R regulation in a local river channel to increase trout population. After that, a definitive stakeholder petitioned to remake Sabo dam to slit Sabo dam to reconnect river continuity and enhance river ecosystem. However, future continuity of the project may be threatened by lack of power of definitive stakeholders.