Development of the Social IndicatorsFor the Forest Ecosystem Management in Liouguei Region

• Main Authors: Miao-Chuan Lin, 林妙娟
• Other Authors: Hurng-Jyuhn Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90023162770334719019

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 環境政策研究所 === 93 === The management of a forest ecosystem is based on the scales of ecosystem, landscape and community spaces. It integrates sustainable forestry, multipurpose using and the principles of biodiversity conservation, and combines the characters of forest ecosystem with both the economic and the social systems which human relied on, to achieve the objective of harmonizing the interactions between human and forests. The management of forest in Taiwan now has already become the management of forest ecosystem. An indicator system to the combination of community and forestry was built up in this study. The system was mainly based on the Human Ecosystem Model, HEM, which developing well in recent decades. HEM provides a conceptual model which integrates human society into the interactions between organisms and inanimate objects. This model considers both the scales of time and space, and analysis the heterogeneous developments among spaces by Patch Dynamic Analysis to study the patterns and the processes of the interactions between the biophysical system and the human society. There were totally thirteen social indicators built up in the Critical Resource System and seventeen indicators in Human Social System. Through the process of building social indicators, we can analysis more systematically to the social development of Liou-Guei. According to the analysis results, Liou-Guei is a forest-dependent region which emphasizing on agriculture developing, most habitants devoted themselves to first industry. The medical resources in Liou-Guei were very insufficient and need complement with adjacent regions. In the aspect of participation in public affairs, those habitants have lots of fervor. Their voter turnout rate was higher than the hole Gao-Hsiung county. The problems of population aging and outward migration were very serious in Liou-Guei. The dependency ratio was getting higher year after year. In the ethnical analysis, Hakka, Mainlander, Ming-Nan and natives were the mainly four populations in Liou-Guei. In Mau-Lin, however, the native (the Lu-Kai tribe) was the majority. There are very different population compositions in those two townships. In this study, social indicators were used to survey the achievements of government’s policies which including inhabitants’ participation in conservation, tourism promotion, living care for people in remote districts, medical treatment promotion, development of countryside and special agricultural products, defining the boundary of water quality and quantity protecting area and improving the quality of drinking water. Those policies provided no significant improvements to the critical resources in the human ecosystem of Liou-Guei. Because indicators were also restricted by the qualities of the selected data, the forestry department should keep constructing the database, operating this monitoring and assessment system and analysis with dynamic modeling, so that to build up a groundwork for the ecosystem management of Taiwan’s sustainable forestry.