Policy Network Ties in the Dynamic Process of Environmental Conflict Resolution

Dr. Seunghoo Lim is a professor of public policy in the Graduate School of International Relations at the International University of Japan (IUJ). His main areas of research interest include policy processes, public/nonprofit management, network governance structures and policy tools. Since graduating summa cum laude from Seoul National University with a major in political science in 2007, he has accumulated a wealth of research, professional and teaching experience at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) in New York, the Korea Institute of Public Administration in Seoul, and Florida State University. He also graduated from Seoul National University with a Master of Public Administration, with a specific focus on public management, as the valedictorian of the class of 2011. Furthermore, he earned a Ph.D. in Public Administration, with a specific focus on public policy, from the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University in 2015. He is a recipient of the 2011-2016 Legacy Fellowship from Florida State University, the 2013 Raul P. deGuzman Award for the Best Ph.D. Paper from the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, the 2013 Morris W. H. Collins Award for the Best Ph.D. Paper from the Southeastern Conference for Public Administration (SECoPA), the 2014 ASPA Founders’ Fellowship from the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and the 2014 NASPAA Statts Emerging Scholar Award from the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA). His research has appeared in refereed journals, including Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration & Development, Public Performance & Management Review, Social Science & Medicine, International Review of Administrative Sciences, VOLUNTAS: International Journal ofVoluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Lex Localis–Journal of Local Self-Government, Public Personnel Management, Politics and Governance, Romanian Journal of Political Science, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Disaster Prevention & Management, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, International Journal for Equity in Health, Sustainable Cities and Society, Sustainability, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, Social Networks, and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. In the future, Dr. Seunghoo Lim hopes to focus on the study of network governance arrangements as a means of overcoming public problems and policy conflicts.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- chapter 2. Self-organizing policy network ties in the dynamic process of environmental conflict resolution.- chapter 3. Stability of the main actors, resilience of their control of the agenda, and intensified conflicts as underlying dynamics of network structures in the environmental conflict resolution process.- chapter 4. Multiplex dynamics for the co-evolution of formal and informal policy networks in the environmental conflict resolution process.- chapter 5. Conclusion.