Political Ecology Analysis of Participatory Environmental Governance - A Case Study of Taiwan Geopark Demonstration Communities

• Main Authors: Liu, You-Wei, 劉有為
• Other Authors: Su, Shu-Juan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97yw6u

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 地理學系 === 105 === The diversified discourses of “environmentalism” and “sustainable development,” as well as the environmental governance controversies have occurred in Taiwan in recent years. Cases like, Miramar Resort Taitung Controversy in 2004~2014, Smangus Beech Event in 2007, and hunting controversy of Puyuma Tribe in 2015, have highlighted significant gaps in environmental awareness and governance methods between “the state” and “the local.” More and more discourses on issues of environmental governance have pointed out the importance of public participation, localization, respect for traditional local knowledge, and joint governance. Starting in 2002, The Council of Agriculture has promoted “Goepark” with projects and plans responding to the latest trends of international landscape conservation and environmental governance. It does, not only emphasize the core values of landscape conservation, environmental education, community participation, and environmental tourism, but also focuses on multi-scale network exchanges and mutual learning. From political ecology perspective, this study conducted in-depth interviews with important local opinion leaders and engaged in participant field survey to investigate communities’ responses to new environmental governance, including motivation of community participation, factors taken into consideration, and how communities and their members engage in the public decision-making of local affairs related to geopark. Moreover, this study also tried to delineated “typology” of geopark community governance, which should become significant for future investigation and understanding of other communitiey environmental governance.