A Study on Environmental Change Resilience of Paddy Landscapes:An Application of Socio-ecological Theory

• Main Authors: Cai, Cheng-Syun, 蔡承勳
• Other Authors: Hung, Hung-Chih
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/dzu2j4

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 都市計劃研究所 === 103 === Humans and nature have co-evolved over centuries, creating unique mosaic socio-ecological production landscapes with habitats and human land use, and that can directly correspond to the paddy landscapes in Taiwan. In the past, the characteristics of rice culture, special topography, and densely populated in Taiwan, creating many paddy landscapes in rural area. However, with the disturbances of environmental change, many paddy landscapes have been waste, or turned into urban or industrial use. Therefore, the Forestry Bureau began to implement wetland ecosystem conservation and restoration plan in 2009, combined with the concept of Satoyama Initiative to reshape harmonious interactions between humans and nature and restore the socio-ecological production landscapes. Providing paddy landscapes in Taiwan sustainable development opportunities. This study uses the resilience perspective, investigating and assessing resilience in Bajen, Gongliao and Shihtiping paddy landscapes, and also formulate environmental change resilience policy suggestion of paddy landscapes. After reviewing literatures of resilience concept, socio-ecological production landscapes and indicators of socio-ecological production landscapes. This study makes resilience assessment framework of paddy landscapes, and divide into “resilience components”, “dynamic disturbances” and “stakeholders”. In order to capture essential of resilience, this study uses indicators of resilience to conduct resilience components. Under this framework, this study uses in-depth interview, document analysis and participant observation. On one hand, assessing resilience components and dynamic disturbances of paddy landscapes; On the other hand, combining with other paddy landscapes experiences, using indicators of resilience to analyze operation mode between different paddy landscapes and critical thresholds. Finally, feedback to the policy suggestion of environmental change resilience of paddy landscapes and socio-ecological production landscapes restoration.