Cognitive Attitude and Performance Assessment in Eco-technology of Soil and Water Conservation Professionals in Taitung

• Main Authors: Huang, Shiou-Huei, 黃秀惠
• Other Authors: Hsu, Chung-Li
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98126886519644293772

碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 森林系所 === 96 === This paper attempts to probe how personality variables and personal motivations have affected the personnel’s levels of acknowledgement of the guiding value system which promotes biological conservation, and the way they assess and evaluate the effectiveness of the executions when the technological personnel in the field of water of soil conservation in the Taitung region implement ecological engineering projects. By conducting site investigations, person-to-person interviews and questionnaire surveys, we found that the technological personnel opt to apply ecological engineering not merely to comply with governmental policies or to carry out requests from clients. Their own personal motivation of promoting ecological conservation, environmental protection and better landscape planning is also involved in the decision-making. While most of the technological personnel still regard workplace safety as their first priority when designing the engineering, they also seek to conserve the local biological ecology under the condition that workplace safety and hazard prevention and control are ensured. They tend to treat each engineering project on a case-to-case basis, and apply the so-called Five Principles of Creation in order to conserve the habitats for the biological organisms, and to minimize the impact which the implementation brings about on the environment. We also found from the site investigations that the water and soil engineering projects at the central government level mainly consist of basic tasks of soil conservation, conservation of sloping lands, riverbank erosion control, and riverbed remediation. Soil erosion control in mountainous environments includes stream assessment and monitoring, riverbank restoration, riverbed remediation, erosion control, sand dams and hillside ditches for erosion control. One the other hand, the engineering projects at the county-level are mainly basic tasks of soil conservation and conservation of sloping lands. The projects at the township-level, however, may include only constructions of drainage ditches as well as various types of retaining walls. With regards to materials and its applications, both wire gabion structures and masonry blocks are the most commonly adopted by all of the three. However, the very fact that the central government also employs newly-developed prefabricated masonry brick panels and works on inventing more templates for designing masonry structures proves that it is more progressive in introducing new innovation in order to achieve unusual designs that are not easily accomplished by conventional masonry, which is still widely used by local governments. From the analysis of the questionnaire survey, we have observed a significant discrepancy between the high importance the technological personnel have attached to the application of ecological engineering and yet the low level of performance satisfaction. In addition, after the co-relation and relevance analysis, we were able to conclude that the governmental units in charge of construction monitoring attach more importance to the conservation of the local biological ecology, and therefore are more willing to take an implementation of ecological engineering into consideration than are the general construction contractor and subcontractors. Personnel with 1 to 5 years of service expressed a greater acknowledgement of the importance of the application of ecological engineering, while personnel with more than 10 years of service show a higher degree of performance satisfaction when evaluating the effectiveness of their implementation. From the Importance-Satisfaction analysis, we are able to find that the item ecological economics is largely located in the first quadrant (important and satisfied), while the item feasibility is located in the third quadrant (neither important nor satisfied). This indicates that when administrating ecological engineering, the technological personnel of water and soil conservation in Taitung hold polarized views in acknowledging the importance of ecological engineering, and have varying levels of performance satisfaction. Also a closer examination of the item implementation feasibility, which is located in the second quadrant (important but not satisfied), clearly suggests ample room for the personnel in charge of the administration to improve their expertise and skills.