Land subsidence is a common phenomenon worldwide. When mitigation has approached
a limitation, adaptation becomes an important strategy for sustainable development. Specially,
climate variability and changes can make more serious impacts on coastal areas. This study
focused on adaptation to land subsidence in Chiangyuan area consisting of several coastal
villages, Pingtung county, Taiwan. Little research about the adaptations had been done in this
area, except there was some studies for its awareness.
Using a case study approach with questionnaires, in-depth interview, direct observation,
this study explored past and existed adaptation behaviour in different categories of
stakeholders. Moreover, we also tried to analyze the capacity of these adaptation for future
impacts from land subsidence and flood made by climate change, and could increase the
capacity.
The results have revealed local people in Chiangyuan area had abundant experiences on
adaptations to land subsidence and flood. They used different kinds of adaptation at same time
to cope with flooding, land loss, and salted land problems. The followings have summarized
the adaptation of four categories of stakeholders.
1. for local citizen, the major adaptation is house-elevating, who didn¡¦t adopt
house elevating were without budget or planning to move out.
2. for farmer, planting economic fruits with higher tolerance to salt-water.
3. for aquaculture, fish-pond elevating, harvesting earlier, or building fish-pond on
higher land.
4. for school, using water-proof gates or no classes during flooding.
Some suggestion focused on adaptation to land subsidence was also given in this study,
specially for government.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0826109-184219 |
| Date | 26 August 2009 |
| Creators | Chi, Chia-Fa |
| Contributors | Yen-Lien Kuo, Jeng-Di Lee, Chung-Pan Lee |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0826109-184219 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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