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Wannian River Restoration, Taiwan

Resource System
urban river
Resource Units
multiple urban ecosystem services
Location
Taiwan (Taiwan, Province of China)

Wannian River Restoration case is part of the comparative urban river restoration 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 Wannian River (5.5 km) located in a medium sized city of Pingtung with 200,000 inhabitants. This case is most known as one of the best practices of urban river restoration program in Taiwan, undertaking several major river form, process and function improvements between 2007 and 2018.

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Resource System

Wannian Urban River

Resource Users

factories pollute river

pig farms pollute river

resident attend river-related events

Public Infrastructure

bridge

park

sewage pipe

river channel

bike route

constructed wetland

Public Infrastructure Providers

local government (subject to changes of decision cycles/change of elected Mayor)

multiple bureaus 

Relationship 1

1a - litter/pollute from factories, pig farms, household/transform the river

1b - lack of provisioning service between resource users and natural river now 

Relationship 2

2a - vote/lobby/complain/bribe

2b - inform/engage

Relationship 3

3a - invest/create/remove/maintain/follow/implement

3b - inform/advice/challenge

Relationship 4

4a - equip/clean/purify/divert/build/transform

4b - flow of information

Relationship 5

5a - restrict/sanction

Relationship 6

6a - educate/protect/enable

6b - expect/monitor/co-design/visit

Exogenous Drivers (7) - Resource
(none specified)
Exogenous Drivers (7) - Infrastructure
(none specified)
Exogenous Drivers (8) - Users
(none specified)
Exogenous Drivers (8) - Providers
(none specified)
Human Infrastructure (Users)
(none specified)
Human Infrastructure (Providers)
(none specified)
  • Herlin Chien, United Nations University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)