Taiwan's Environmental Struggle

Preface and acknowledgements

This study of Taiwan’s environmental struggle gestated for quite some time. As geographers, we have been studying Taiwan’s environment and development since the late 1960s, and have collaborated on several projects over the years and made numerous field trips together to many parts of Taiwan. But with the reform era that began in the early 1980s, and the subsequent establishment of the Environmental Protection Administration in 1987 and the National Council for Sustainable Development in 1997, and a whole system of environmental agencies and organizations, as well as the emergence of the environmental movement among non-government organizations (NGOs) and citizens, we felt the time was ripe for a book-length study ...