In order to host The World Games 2009 in Kaohsiung, all public facilities had been reconstructed in Kaohsiung city. The image of harbor industry Kaohsiung city has been changed and delivered to all over the world through the world media by The World Games. Meanwhile, it promotes the harbor real estates in Kaohsiung as well. In addition to Kaohsiung city¡¦s unique characteristics and public artistic infrastructures, the future development of harbor real estate will become an interesting and valuable issue in Kaohsiung city. This study is based on city marketing, using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), Authorities Survey, and Scenarios Analysis by interviewing 22 authorities of construction companies, real estate brokers, land brokers and real estate developers. To develop a whole process of an assessment of real estate development in Kaohsiung harbor areas by inducing an assessment of real estate development in Kaohsiung harbor areas into three criteria and nine secondary criteria. Furthermore, analyze the future development of three harbor areas, include: Love Pier(which used to be called Pier 12), Glory Pier(which used to be called Pier 13), and Singuang Pier(which used to be called Pier 21). This study finds out that location is the first criterion, value is the second, and construction style is the last in assessment of real estate development in harbor areas. On secondary criteria, integration is the most important issue, convenience is the next; the subject of a talk and plasticity are the last two issues. Base on the whole assessment, Singuang Pier is the most potential area of real estate development in Kaohsiung harbor areas; Love Pier is the next consideration area. This conclusion provides real estate developers an important reference on assessment and decision-making in Kaohsiung harbor areas.

Because water is not equitably distributed in time and place, in the right quantity with the adequate quality, water planning and management is used to redistribute the resource in such a way that tries to satisfy the necessities of water users, including the environment. Policies are proposed to improve the water management, however, selecting the best alternative can be difficult when tradeoffs among alternatives improve certain aspects of the planning and management and worsen others. This research establishes a methodology to evaluate water management policies in order to clearly and systematically identify policies that improve the water management. First, each water user, system or environmental requirement are evaluated using performance criteria. Second, performance criteria are summarized using the Sustainability Index. Finally, individual Sustainability Indices are grouped using the Sustainability by Group Index. The Sustainability by Group Index makes it possible to compare groups of water users and regions at a glance. This methodology has been successfully applied in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo basin, a transboundary basin between the United States and Mexico. A set of scenarios was defined by water users, authorities and environmental organizations of the basin from both countries. A water resources planning model was constructed to represent the water management of the basin. The model was used to evaluate several scenarios and the benefits or damages that each policy provides. Two winning scenarios (called Meta-scenarios) that improve the management for water users, the environment and international treaty obligations were identified. Meta-scenario A is an immediate action scenario that includes: buyback of water rights, improvement in irrigation infrastructure, water demand reduction for irrigation districts in Mexico and the US, groundwater banking and the inclusion of environmental flows. Meta-scenario B is a short term scenario that includes the policies of Meta-scenario A plus expanded buyback of water rights, additional improvements in infrastructure and sharing of water savings between farmers in the US and Mexico. Results have been presented to decision makers and water users in both countries who will ultimately decide if they should implement the suggested policies. Most importantly, some alternative policies are now known that can help to improve the water management in the basin, for whom and where. / text