In recent years, local governments have acted proactively in the international initiatives such as climate change adaptation and energy transformation. Referring to the experience of citizen participation of the energy transformation in European cities...
In 2014, the Long-Term Care Services Act passed the first reading in the Parliament, however, it was also derided as the ‘the Long-Term Care Management Act’, regarding it as an act lacking a clear ambition for the service in Taiwan...
There exists cross-boundary problem to PM2.5 health risks in Taiwan. The particulate matter, generated from dust and industrial combustion from China and inland Asia, spread with the monsoon to various countries. The wind and composition analysis reports that 20% to 40% of PM2.5 ...
The Environmental Impact Assessment Act has been in force for more than 10 years; however, because of several omissions in the EIA, environmental groups, which have defended...
Setting up air pollution warning system is also one of the future development directions. The air quality model is used to regularly forecast the future air quality condition. When the air quality is predicted to be poor...
The trend of international practice has gradually been less attached to the Environment Impact Assessment regulatory framework as it used to be, and the social impact assessment is regarded as a process that manages the social impact by development behaviours at all stages...
The draft of the Technical Regulation for Social Impact Assessment has been prepared by the Risk Society and Policy Research Centre,National Taiwan University. There may be several challenges in the future. For example, it is constrained by the conservative...
In the face of the three spiral movement—global carbon reduction, industrial transformation, air pollution regulation—Taiwan's difficulties and challenges in energy transformation must be placed on two important aspects for consideration. The first is value-oriented...