Governance of Biodiversity Conservation in China And Taiwan

Executive Yuan, and reorganized its mission under the name of National Council of Sustainable Development.^79 Within the NCSD fr ...

The framework for biodiversity conservation 91 Table 4.1 Government agencies and their functions in biodiversity conservation Na ...

Critics call for personnel changes and ethical accountability. Members of working groups and task forces play multiple roles in ...

some cases, local governments are unable to pay the monthly salaries of their employees.^85 Worsening financial conditions limit ...

the modernization and rationalization of its procedures in light of international norms. Since the Republic of China – Taiwan – ...

administered in a decentralized fashion, which compounds the problems of policy fragmentation. It is unclear, however, whether t ...

national wetlands conservation and management’, Newsletter for Wetlands, 5, 2–3 (in Chinese and English). See Chen Zhiyong (200 ...

policy-making’ (in Chinese), International Technology Research and Development, 23 (1), 28–32. Zin Chuan (2004), ‘Nation ensure ...

and Dehui Wang (eds), The First Global Biodiversity Forum for Asia(in Chinese with English abstract), Beijing: China Environment ...

Ibid, pp. 164–66; for analysis of costs and benefits to the Three Gorges Dam, also see Wang Ru-shu (2000), ‘The environment and ...

Protected areas and biodiversity conservation Globally, countries establish protected areas – nature reserves, parks, historic ...

● conserve populations of animal and plant species in natural environ- ments that allow for their continued natural selection an ...

Animal Conservation Act in 1988. Both laws called for the establishment of nature reserves. During this period, China also joine ...

Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) formed the Protected Area Task Force (PATF), to continue earlier work done b ...

104 Source: China Species Information Service, 2005, and Xie Yan, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Figure 5.1 China’s protected area ...

counties. Since 1979, four criteria have been used to evaluate applications from regions for the formation of nature reserves: ● ...

criteria for this designation include national and international representative characteristics of the area, scientific importan ...

endangered and rare wildlife species.^18 As recent high-level reviews indicate, however, the overall system of nature reserves i ...

‘Many farmers have extended the lands that they cultivate beyond their certified limits, but have enjoyed such tenure unhindered ...

By regulation, each nature reserve, irrespective of ecosystem and wildlife type, must be divided into these three zones. The zon ...