According to the literature on the subject and PAM framework (Ming-shen Wang, 2006), the cognition of the citizen of Kaohsiung in Kaohsiung development and direct cross- strait link could be influenced by three factors: the factor of economic development, the factor of social development, the factor of political development. The study applied category estimation and information integration theory (Anderson, 1996) to treat the citizen of Kaohsiung' s cognition structure, integration function, cognitive algebra, estimate etc. in Kaohsiung development and direct cross- strait link. The main research method in this study is information integration theory. It can figure the internal process of how individuals deal with a series of variables out, including valuation function, integration function and response function. And integration function is the key of information integration theory. Many researches of information integration theory mentioned that people always make use of simple cognitive algebra to integrate information, as adding rule, multiplying rule and averaging rule. The research result in this study is shown as below: 1. Although the middle and bottom classes in Kaohsiung considered that if opening direct cross- strait link, it can make economic development better, most people thought that it could make social development and political development worse. So they tend to oppose direct cross- strait link. 2. Most white-collar classes in Kaohsiung (including industrial circle, political circle, academic circle, grass-roots circle and mass media circle) considered that if opening direct cross- strait link, it can make economic development, social development and political development better. So they tend to assist direct cross- strait link. 3. In group analysis, the information integration of the industrial circle in " acceptive situation of Kaohsiung development" is different-weight averaging model. They pay much attention to economic development. 4. In group analysis, the information integration of the political circle in " acceptive situation of Kaohsiung development" is different-weight averaging model. They pay much attention to economic development. 5. In group analysis, the information integration of the academic circle in " acceptive situation of Kaohsiung development" is different-weight averaging model. They pay much attention to economic development. 6. In group analysis, the information integration of the grass-roots circle in " acceptive situation of Kaohsiung development" is different-weight averaging model. They pay much attention to social development. 7. In group analysis, the information integration of the mass media circle in " acceptive situation of Kaohsiung development" is different-weight averaging model. They pay much attention to economic development. 8. In individual analysis, 60% people pay much attention to economic development, 22% people pay much attention to social development, and 18% people pay much attention to political development.

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The coastal zone including coastal waters and littoral zone are influenced by the interactions between sea and land, and the resources of coastal areas have significant functions and values whatever the regards of nature ecology, industry development, transportation, tourism, national defense, and academic research. Following the population growth, economic advancement, and the change of industry, the land use of coastal zone is more diverse and complex. The incompatible between development and marine environment was happened sometimes. In order to solve the conflicts of coastal resources multiple use and mitigate the negative effects by human activities, integrated coastal zone management was become the most important way for sustainable using the sea. ¡§Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)¡¨ is a resource management system applying the process of integration, connection, and interaction, to analyze the complicated management problem at coastal areas. It is also a framework of principles and methodology for identification of important environmental priorities and allocation of scarce resources. It is an integrated management planning process emphasizing the comprehensive aspect to achieve the sustainable development of the coastal zone. Because the laws and regulations about land planning and coastal zone management is under legislation and the ¡§Coastal Zone Management Plan¡¨ of Kaohsiung County is not accomplished, the research attempts to understand the future development concept and direction about coastal areas in Kaohsiung County according to ¡§Kaohsiung County Comprehensive Development Plan¡¨. The research formulates some phenomena at present involving artificial construction causing coastal erosion, making land destroying the ecology, development project standing, development location overlapping, project contents competing each other, objective scale too large, disregard environmental sensitive areas, using a lot of hard structures, etc. Furthermore, we survey the planning and management of coastal zone through the aspects of integration among sectors, between the land and the water sides of the coastal zone, among levels of government, and among disciplines. Synthesizing the discussions of research, we can find the major problem of coastal zone management at Kaohsiung County is not lacking of planning project, instead of having too many but the implement result is not satisfactory. It is perceived that investigating and evaluating of the resource supply and the user demand at advance planning process was insufficient. Besides, it didn¡¦t have a comprehensive development plan which thinks about coastal environment from the first to be a basis of integration and coordination the various land use. Expecting the future coastal zone development and management, the responsible agency and project proponent can discard the departmental egoism, prior consider the integrated environment, proceed to communication, coordination, and integration continuously in search of a common consensus and vision. Only if that, the coastal zone development can be sustainable.

As the situation of politics and economy becomes more and more unstable in Taiwan, people have higher criticism and expectation to government efficiency. However, both of Taipei Household Registration Office and Department of Health Kaohsiung City Government have successfully implemented many innovations in organization and started the initial change in less than 3 years. Thus, this research tries to analyze why and how innovations could be diffused efficiently in these two government organizations and started the change. This research collects abundant data and information through studying documents and many deep interviews at first. Then, these data or information are made a static analysis by Everett M. Rogers¡¦ theory of Diffusion of Innovations and Innovation Process in Organizations, and a dynamic analysis by Casual Loop Diagrams of Systmes Thinking. All analyses include the comparison of these two cases. There are 15 findings as followed: 1. Creating can bring better performance than problem-solving. 2. Characteristics of innovations and inertia of organization will affect the speed of innovations diffusion and the acceptability of innovations. 3. Both of innovations and organization will be modified to fit each other. 4. The leader is the most influent point for diffusion of innovations in bureaucracy. 5. The leader sets an example with his/her own conduct and starts change from small things can be helpful to diffusion of innovations. 6. The leader persistence of innovations is helpful to diffusion of innovations. 7. How the leader diffuses innovations is a process of dynamic coordination. 8. The leader is a designer of loops. 9. Different cases have similar key successful loops and key successful factors because they have the same structure of bureaucracy. 10. Structure can help and block leaders to diffuse and implement innovations in bureaucracy. 11. The innovation process in organization should be observed in a larger structure or system. 12. Reports of Media can motivate employees effectively and facilitate the phenomenon of ¡§lock-in¡¨. 13. Examination and evolution have much efficiency in changing employees¡¦ behaviors in bureaucracy. However, what can change employees¡¦ attitude often are others¡¦ appreciation, work results or leader¡¦s moral integrity. 14. Reports of Media, education training and visits can break the closed system of bureaucracy. This is helpful for diffusion of innovations in organization. 15. No matter the focal point of innovations is on easy and small things whose results are obvious, or on fundamental, long-term and more difficult things such as system and value change, ¡Ketc, all can result in profound changes in organizations. Moreover, this research also finds whether ¡§democratization¡¨, ¡§media¡¨, and ¡§bureaucracy¡¨ will bring good or bad contribution, these three things aren¡¦t the point and the most important thing is how we use them. We should take the responsibility by ourselves.

Abstract Kaohsiung Harbor is one of the most important international sea ports in the world. Due to the long-standing lack of in-situ current data, the complex variations of the flow field in this basin still remain unclear. As a consequence, the related environmental problems such as oil spills, water quality management and ship maneuvering safety , have long been a great concern in this harbor. The present study is conducted to better understand the flow field in the Kaohsiung Harbor. A series of synoptic flow observations of the Kaohsiung Harbor were conducted by using towed-ADCP or EM current meters. From these observations it can be shown that the flow field of the Kaohsiung Harbor is¡GWater entering the harbor through the second entrance and exiting the harbor through the first entrance during ebbs. During floods the flows are reversed. A 3-D numerical model (from POM) is developed for the Kaohsiung Harbor. The flows are more complicated by the M2 tide driven than by the mixed tide driven. From the results by the M2 tide driven show the ocean current is variable, especially the south ocean current. Therefore, the flows are more complicated owing to the mixed tidal characteristics and shoreline geometry. The maximum current speeds amount to 30 - 40 cm/s in the narrow first entrance and 10 - 20 cm/s in the second entrance. It is clearly demonstrated from the model results that drainage from the Chien-Chen River affects greatly the salinity and circulation patterns of the Kaohsiung Harbor, causing the salinity of the first entrance to be lower than that of the second entrance, and the surface layers flowing outward toward the ocean while the lower layers displaying tidal oscillations. From the modeling results, the influence of the wind on the harbor flows is insignificant and the tide is main force in the harbor. Under the simultaneous forcing of river and wind, flood and ebb tidal streams leaving the two entrances are found to diverge in a flow stagnation area inside the harbor near Pier 45 and 61, respectively. Based on the modeling results, it can be concluded that the main factors affecting the flow patterns of the Kaohsiung Harbor are (1) mixed tidal nature, (2) shoreline geometry and (3) river runoff

Abstract It carries an important educational mission to set up the Open University of Kaohsiung. Such an epochal establishment also marks the advent of adult education in Taiwan. There have been many kinds of universities developed in the recent 10 years. Higher education in Taiwan, thus, becomes much more generalized and marketable. More and more public or private institutions have implemented programs for adult education. However, the development and the market of institutionalized adult education, such as National Open University and the extension education of accredited colleges and universities, plus non-accredited community universities are becoming more and more competitive. Besides, the Kaohsiung City Government has encountered financial problems and subsidiaries from the Central Government are less and less as well. All of these changes have caused that the rate of student recruitment of the Open University of Kaohsiung doesn¡¦t grow up as expected. Therefore, the development and management of the Open University of Kaohsiung needs to reasonably consider an alternative method to work with ¡§authorized management.¡¨ The purpose of the present study is to make up a practical pattern on authorized managements of the Open University of Kaohsiung. The financial support from the government is less and less, and it is becoming much difficult for many universities to develop and manage. In addition to strategic alliances and university merges, there are other practical ways for local governments and related institutions to develop and manage adult education program. This research finds that certain improvements must be done to develop and manage well for the Open University of Kaohsiung. Authorized management is feasible. First, the Open University of Kaohsiung itself should make sure that adult education and extension education are its management focuses. Secondly, at the same time, it should locate its target market and create its core competition capability. Specifically, there are some students who need academic credits and degrees to get professional licenses for their jobs. Other students expect to gain more professional knowledge on marketing, management, and Internet commerce. Furthermore, more and more students are eager to acquire more practical training on foreign languages. Currently, the original regulations of authorized management have been based on the Fundamental Education Law, and Law for Promotion of Civil Participation in Infrastructure Projects. However, there have been no exact and clear regulations or models for public universities¡¦ authorized managements, at present. Thus, this study refers to the existing law and related regulations of authorized management above mentioned. Then, the researcher proposes a draft covenant of authorized management, tender instructions, and other related regulations for the Open University of Kaohsiung and expects to make them as references for other public universities.

Abstract With the growing trend of urbanization in the world, subjects of the sustainable urban development keep gaining increasing attentions, and researches about indicators of the sustainable urban development also become conspicuous discussions. Nevertheless, recent decades there were still fewer researches referring to construct indicators of sustainable urban development applying the concept of single city. On the important dimensions of discussing sustainable urban development, we should emphasize both on whether a city grows towards the sustainable trend and monitoring the development process of a city. Decision authority, monitoring the situations of the sustainable urban development, should design the indicator groups of a city in accordance with its particular historical background, geographical conditions, character of existing pattern, and topics people concerned. The analysis framework of this research broadly includes the aspects as follow¡G the natural environment of urban hardware, and the socio-economy and culture of urban software. An empirical study of Kaohsiung City was performed to illustrate the analysis procedures of the entire research process. Recognizing the growing environmental damage and population density increase in Kaohsiung city, actually decision authority need to outline the guidance of strategies or decisions with regard to monitoring the indicators of sustainable development. Using a case study of Kaohsiung, we adopt the indicator groups of measuring urban sustainability in¡§An Assessment System for Sustainable Taiwan¡¨as foundation , expect developing sustainable development indicators for Kaohsiung¡¦s version. Referring to noted assessment systems for sustainable city, this paper established an initial assessment system for sustainable urban indicators dividing into four aspects as follow: product, living, survival, ecology, with regard to aggregating environmental, economic, social, cultural discussions, and et al. Through a survey of expert questionnaire in Delphi method, this paper compiles the recognition and opinions from the experts of different background and the officials of government department, then modifies 31 suitable indicator items to assess Kaohsiung¡¦s sustainability. Tracking whether a city developed towards sustainability to provide references for government¡¦s policy making in the future, we employ statistic numeral data government published from year 1996 to year 2001 for time-series analysis and examine the results of constructing a sustainable city on developmental expense government offered in Kaohsiung city. The goal of this research is through suitability evaluating of an assessment system for sustainable indicators to develop an indicator system with place characteristics according to telling the developmental setting and monitored dimension of a city easier and clearer, and finally fitting the input of substance expense from government for constructing a sustainable city.

¡§Kaohsiung Farm Irrigation Association¡¨ is taken as the researching topic. By means of ways of interviewing and documents reviewing, to observe how does the farmers from farm society make communicating relation through this farmer, unit by the nation¡H And how is the reaction of farmers from farm society to the sovereign of the nation¡H In the relation of mutual action between nation and society, the Water Conservancy Association is sometime the agent of idea and the executive of policy of the nation, also sometimes the unifier of farmers, opinions in farm society. This dual status makes the Water Conservancy Association the governmental and private function. So the Water Conservancy Association is the unit of half-official and half-civil. From the mutual action of association working station and farmers, we could find out why the nation to dominate this association. The farmers are controlled under the Water Conservancy Association and this Association will be the bridge between the nation and farmers. As to the function why the nation try to dominate the Water Conservancy Association, we could see the function of economical politics to be reached from the mutual action between the Association and farmers and the role the nation acted in the irrigation system. In the function of economical aspect, the Association meaning of existing is to promote the crop production and the quality of crop to improve the living level of farmers to reach the purpose of service. In the function of political aspect, the Association will be acted the important role during the election event. For example of ¡§Kaohsiung Farm Irrigation Association¡¨, it has been classified as the Red Party since Taiwan Restoration. The organization system of the Association is very tight and the member are numerous. The organization of this Association has the structure of Administration Dept., Working Station, Water Conservancy Team, Water Conservancy Section and basic members. Under the complete organization system, the chairman of this Association will control the huge power of the farmers, hence, the Water Conservancy Association is acted as the influential role of politics in the current society system. Anyway, the Association is still to be acted as the important role of ¡§election¡¨ in the function of politics. The Whole sovereign will be performed and realized by the particular tool or means. The nation is also not excepted. Because the nation controls the ¡§power of allocating the social resource¡¨ and ¡§personnel power of appointing ¡® removing to the chairman¡¨, the social qroup of this association could be under controllng. In other woeds, the Water Conservancy Association is under governing of the nation. and the nation policy could be performed even the farmers are dominated by the Association just because the above mentioned two powers and owned by the nation. Finally, the future developing direction of the Association will be discussed in this article. The Water Conservancy Association will face the transferring industrial society from agricultural society. The agricultural production will be largely reduced and the farming area will also be gradually decreased. In another aspect, after entering the WTO and under the liberalized demanding, the agriculture will be suffered from the serious impact. Under these situations, the farm service of this Association will also face the terrible strike. Plus the current financial trouble of the government, the Water Conservancy Association has to find out its own bright way -- Diversifying Investments.

Abstract The Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit system (KMRT) in its initial planning had several lines: red, orange, blue, brown, pink, green; creating a web-shaped MRT network, but due to funding constrain, only the Red and Orange lines are currently under construction, 42.7 km, traversing through the greater Kaohsiung area like a long ¡§cross¡¨, unable to meet the need of the entire city for public transportation. It is foreseeable that the Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corp. (KRTC), which has a 36-year-BOT contract with the City to construct and operate the MRT, will have difficulty achieve its revenue target. The KRTC is under a great deal of pressure finding solutions, like using bus routes to supplement the MRT, to achieve a sustainable operation. The aim of this study concentrates on how to utilize the existing resources within the Kaohsiung Metropolitan area, with an emphasized goal on creating a web-shaped public transportation network, through strategies, organization, and integration. The study examines the financial feasibility for the KRTC to operate a second bus company, the pros and cons of purchasing or renting shuttle buses, and the strategies for operation. First, the study applies Michael Porter¡¦s 5-forces model in examining the current competitive situations of routes within the Municipal Bus Company, by using the competitive theory to discuss the potential activities and goals of a 2nd bus company. Then, with reference to the Harrison¡¦s Decision Making Process as a foundation for the KRTC to run a bus company was discussed. Second, referring to the Metropolitan Area Bus Network theory done by Dr. Jun-Shian Lee, the study examines if the KRTC integrated bus routes with the cross-shaped MRT to form a web-shaped public transportation network, what would be the most cost-effective ways of operation; how large an area of service should the shuttle bus reach; whether bus-purchasing or bus-renting would be more feasible financially; and what strategies, advantages and risks of operating such a shuttle bus company would be. With reference to the analytical theories on Business Competitive Advantages of Dr. Cher Min Fong, the study establishes the competitive edge of a 2nd bus company. The main purpose of this study, with careful comparisons done on bus renting vs. purchasing and investment strategies for operating the 2nd bus company, is based on an underlining wish: trying to bring a possible solution for the successful operation of the KRTC.

The fiercer competition among international harbors drives every port to reinforce operation efficiency to attract carriers and to develop competition strategies to grow competence. In those years, Kaohsiung Harbor has slumped from the third to the fifth largest carrier harbor in the world. It is the overall symptom of competition risks for seaports in Taiwan. The severe situation, though, it is exactly what we can strive to revert the declining trend. Facing this topic composed of dynamic complexities, we can leverage systematic deliberation and dynamic simulation to revamp the status quo structure and create beneficial behavior model. In this thesis, we adopt system dynamics to build up a typical dynamic harbor model to dig out the crucial facets key to the growth of an international seaport and henceforth serve for basis of the decision-making. The main conclusions of this research are as follows: 1.The four facets that influence the development of a harbor are ¡§The economic strength of the hinterland,¡¨ ¡§The completeness of the harbor facilities, whether the construction of the harbor can keep in pace with the volume of containers,¡¨ ¡§The openness of the harbor,¡¨ ¡§The superiority of the geographic location.¡¨ 2.Whatever the import, export, or even transfer, the rate policy of a harbor will help little to the growth of the volume of containers with the other conditions unchanged. The disastrous effect of rate slash will be revenue decline; keeping volume while losing profit. In the long term, it will become a viscous circle. The freedom policy will be far more important than rate policy according to our policy analysis. 3.If the construction progress of wharfs can be in pace with the growth of enterprises, it will lower the interference between each other, reduce inefficient investment, and increase inter-stability. It¡¦s therefore the more accurate estimation of the growth of a harbor, the less disturbance effected by the other loops.