Green Infrastructure Promotion Strategy in Rural Landscape- A Study of Community Empowerment of Rural Area in Yunlin County

• Main Authors: Chen Szu-Hua, 陳思華
• Other Authors: Jing-Shoung Hou
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55738571731810928299

碩士 === 東海大學 === 景觀學系 === 100 === Green, the global consensus in recent years, calls for building up amicable ecological environments in communities. Meanwhile, green infrastructure, in turn reflects the result of green education. Being educated to concern the call for green, people try to improve the environment and bring about the process of community empowerment. Here, a green index, Biotope Area Factor （BAF）, is applicable to assess the effective biological habitat in certain environment. Since the government has implemented a series of rural landscape improvement projects in rural areas, Yunlin County, a major agricultural center in Taiwan, is chosen to be the research base of this study. Moreover, the civil force is exerted to improve and maintain the environment by community empowerment. In this study, every factor and its contribution to the green environment in the community empowerment process is exactly what I want to figure out. Questionnaires and in-depth interviews were applied to collect data, whilst cluster analysis to sort out information. Community members who participated the 2011 Counseling Program for Community Planners were in the invitation list. Finally, 467 valid responses returned. In this study, three aspects of the behavioral theory were introduced into the research framework - knowledge, attitude and practice respectively. Communities are classified into level one and level two. Level one is referred to the averagely participating communities, level two the advanced communities. The result shows that, in terms of green level, level two communities are better than level ones. A majority of level two communities are also qualified as communities with green infrastructure execution and practical economic consideration （GIEPE）. These qualified advanced communities boast the highest rate of improving the green environment. By interviews, I find that there are two reasons for GIEPE communities to achieve the high green level. First, such communities preferred to transform gray lost space into green. Second, ideas with creative solutions encouraged the inhabitants to participate and indirectly contributed to the execution. Furthermore, BAF under rural environment is introduced as the effective biological habitat index covering non-urban areas in this study.