Issues Facing the Formation of Mutual Consent as it Relates to Citizens

Abstract
Administration and politics play an important role in developing better regional policies to overcome social problems. However, in instances where these policies are formed in ways that disregard local citizens, new disputes are sometimes created in the process. This situation is often the case for waste disputes in particular. There are two pillars to policies which try to solve waste problems: Policies that aim to reduce waste and recover resources, and those that aim to select sites for treatment and landfill sites. Both of these types of policies require cooperation between the resident-business group and the local government in order to form a workable society. This requires full information access and citizen participation in order to map out mutual consent for all involved. In reality, however, due to the fact that good systems for this kind of cooperation have not yet been developed, there are still many cases where forming a consensus proved to be too difficult. By discussing what might be the cause of the difficulties in forming a consensus in actual cases that are introduced here, the topic of Mutual Consent is built upon.

Key words: waste reduction and recovery of resources; site selection; information access, citizen participation, form a consensus