| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 國家政策與公共事務研究所 === 104 === This study investigates processes and effects of policy implementation of the Low-Carbon Demonstration Community in Taichung from a policy-implementing perspective. After the implementation of the “Low-Carbon City Project- Establishing a Low-Carbon, Lively Home” was finalized in 2009, demonstration communities have gradually been established in northern, central, southern, and the east of Taiwan. During this process, the formations of the low-carbon demonstration communities have been complicating and full of challenges. Taichung, being the leader of the low-carbon demonstration cities and with its essential role, initiates the move of establishing low-carbon communities in the great central Taiwan.
In the past, most research of low-carbon policies focused on quantitative studies of carbon reduction evaluation indexes and ecological-beneficial analyses. However, through literature reviews, this study discovers that the obstacle of policy-making lies in policies and policy implementations of local governments.
In the view of this, the study adopted policy implementation theory and evidence-based practices to highlight the importance of implementation in policy process. Not only it investigates factors affecting policy implementations, this study also observes difficulties of policy implementations of local governments. Basing on literature analyses and in-depth interview as well as having the Taichung Low-Carbon Demonstration Community as an example, the study analyzes effects of policy process in five aspects, including perspectives of implementers, willingness of participants, policy resources, organizational partnerships, and environmental factors. The findings of this study are described as follows:
1. The low-carbon policy implementation model of Taiwan is a top-to-bottom decision model, with the central government being the authority of policy-making and resources allocation, linking the effectiveness of projects to perspectives of implementers. In which case, the Environmental Protection Administration of the Executive Yuan decides on policy goals and the Taichung government and relevant divisions comply with resolutions of the central government and are responsible for policy implementations, having not much capabilities of project expansion..
2. In addition, this study also observes the adequacy of policy resources. During the interviews, community representatives and academic experts raised their concerns of a lack of policy resources, that under the challenges of the fund distributions and the authority allocations , the communities may only achieve superficial low-carbon restructure and may not fulfill the goal of low-carbon restructure that is practical for everyday living.
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