Stakeholder Participation in Planning Processes of the Ciharaay Cultural Landscape Management Plan

• Main Authors: Shao-Yu Chiang, 江紹瑜
• Other Authors: Kuang-Chung Lee
• Format: Others
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42142817392514612439

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 自然資源與環境學系 === 101 === Cultural landscape was officially included in the Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention during the 16th World Heritage Annual Meeting in 1992. Taiwan then successively revised the Cultural Heritage Preservation Act and Enforcement Rules of the Cultural Heritage Preservation Act respectively in 2005 and 2006 to categorize cultural landscape as one of the protected items as well. Since then, national cultural landscape censuses have launched and studies related to potential cultural landscape sites have been promoted. So far, 39 sites of cultural landscape had accomplished their registration process. Cultural landscapes present long terms of various combined works of nature and human beings. Among them, categories related to economic production - such as agriculture, forestry and fisheries - are inseparable with production activities as well as life customs of local residents. Thus, participation of the community becomes inevitable during the investigation and management of cultural landscape. The research area of this research settles at the Ciharaay Cultural Landscape of Fon-nan Village located at Fu-Li area in Hualien. Through participant observation, group discussion and literature review, this research explores issues appeared in the deliberation process of the management plan, for example, what kind of stakeholders are involved and what important management issues have emerged. Pasty Healey’s framework of the collaborative planning theory is adopted to analyze the benefits resulted from the planning process of the management plan. The research results present that the main stakeholders of the cultural landscape management plan are Ciharaay’s Cultural Landscape Management Committee, the community development association, the village office, as well as Hualien cultural affair bureaus, National Dong Hua University Cooperation Team, relevant competent authorities and civil society organizations. Important issues emerged during the planning process are as follows: investigations of landscape change; regulations of principles involving identification and conservation of irrigation canals and terraces; plans incorporating regional development and sustainable management; river conservation of the Ciharaay creek; real practice in Ciharaay terraces management; and the restoration from 6K+900 to 7K+600 of Taiwan Provincial Highway No.23. In addition, benefits from institutional capacity such as knowledge resources, relational resources and mobilization capacity can indeed be generated by the framework of the collaborative planning theory during the Ciharaay Cultural Landscape Management Plan. After the management plan is finalized, however, follow-up details are to be taken care of. How to form operating mechanisms among the participation platform of all stakeholders, to search for funding and professional assistance, and to continue with investigation of landscape change are possible management challenges facing the implementation of Ciharaay Cultural Landscape Management Plan in the future.