A Study on the application of Natural Burial Policy in Shanghai and Taiwan / 環保自然葬政策在上海和台灣應用的案例研究

碩士 / 國立東華大學 / 環境政策研究所 / 96 / In human society evolution, funeral and burial culture is convenances and transition from mixture different value system, the environment to the life final homeward journey also influence family member, therefore the funeral and burial facility must take provide and meet the social need as a goal. Along with the population increase and urbanization, the funeral and burial uses to consume on land resource and landscape, destruction environment ecology. On Sustainable development and environmental protection idea, the modern concept of natural burial began in the UK and Japan in 1990 ,and has since spread across the globe.

A Natural Burial is an environmentally sustainable alternative to existing funeral practices, it embrace diversification burial of tree burial, sea burial and been scattered in nature. China and Taiwan both have been trumpet Natural Burial Policy in recent years, because of the same cultural, history, tradition and custom, there are many correspondences between the two policies. This research explores the implementation status and barriers of promoting Natural Burial Policy, through the literature review、social survey and some interviews. This research also chooses the Shanghai first humanity ecology memorial cemetery–Fu Shou Yuan and the Taiwan first plan natural burial cemetery- Fu De Public Cemetery as the observation research case.

The results show that there are the common barriers: populace lack of natural burial idea, industry sensationalize the luxurious cemetery, the traditional idea is ingrained, lacks the folk leadership association. In the policy impetus, Shanghai tendency rigid impetus technique; Taipei favors the way of flexible impetus. In the implementation status, people choose natural burial phenomenon does not have the obvious increase in Taipei. Results of this study suggest that it is important to build a stronger social consensus for populace freedom to choose about more eco-friendly, meaningful and natural alternatives to a traditional burial. Natural burial is a new idea that in choosing how and where we are buried, each one of us can conserve, sustain, and protect the earth.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/096NDHU5695013
Date January 2008
CreatorsYi-Ting Lin, 林怡婷
ContributorsYu-Sung Lai, 賴宇松
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format112

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