這一篇文章試探從八○年代四項有關環保議題的衝突中去尋找、探討世代正義的影像。這四項衝突事件是，鹿港抗拒杜邦設廠、貢寮反對核四建廠、蘭嶼存放核廢料的抗爭，以及在南台灣建立濱南工業區的計劃所引起的爭議。 就研究方法來說，這一個研究計劃採取的是「焦點團體法」。我們一共舉辦了七次的座談，邀請有關單位及人士參加，試圖從他們的對談以及互動來了解他們對世代正義的看法。這個研究計劃開始於一九九七年一月，費時五個月，在五月間完成，七次座談的紀錄在一九九八年一月編印成冊。

This paper is the third in a series of three articles dealing with environmental rights and justice between generations, the first being an article on the idea of justice between generations, and the second on the anti-nuclear power movement in Taiwan in the 1980s. It aims at capturing the image of justice between generations as glimpsed from four confrontational situations in environmental dispute in Taiwan in the past two decades and further more endeavouring to account for it. They are the construction of the #4 nuclear power plant in Gong-liao, northern Taiwan, the disposal of low intensity nuclear wastes in Lan-yu, the Anti-Dupont movement in Lukang in the mid-eighties, and the protest against the development of Bin-nan Industrial Zone in the south of Taiwan. To the extent this paper is primarily based on the materials gathered from a series of meetings using the focus group method, it is useful to describe how was the research conducted. The coordinators of this research project, Professor Chang Mau-kuei and this writer, were fortunate to have the support of an exceptionally outstanding team of assistants. Briefly, before the meetings took place, the research assistants would make an effort to gather relevant information and review the literature regarding the issues to be discussed as well as the backgrounds of the persons invited to the meetings so that an in-depth dialogue would be possible. Altogether seven meetings were held: the controversy over the #4 nuclear power plant, the nuclear waste disposal at Lan-yu and the Bin-nan Industrial Zone each took up two sessions. The first meeting was held in January 1997, and the last in May 1997. The verbatim records of the meetings were published in January 1998.