Love River Restoration, Taiwan

Love River Restoration case is part of the comparative urban river analysis developed between 2019 to 2020 by Herlin Chien at United Nations University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability in Japan. The common pool resource system is the Love River (12 km) located in a metropolitan city of Kaohsiung with 2.7 million inhabitants. This case is identified by the Executive Yuan - central government in Taiwan as one of eleven rivers with more than 50% of mediumly polluted section in 2012. To improve the waterbody environment of Love River, along with ten other identified polluted streams, the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) implemented a large-scale pollution remediation project undertaking several major river form, process and function improvements between 2012 and 2017.