State Council 71, 73, 87–8, 93, 94, 110
State Environmental Protection
Administration (SEPA) 2, 48, 88
agencies and 83–5
responsibilities of 83
status of 83, 193, 194
State Forestry Administration (SFA)
41–2, 66n57, 76–8, 83–4, 86, 106,
193–4
State Oceanic Administration (SOA) 59,
84
state-owned enterprises (SOEs) 135–6,
155n4
dismantling of 29, 135, 155n5
ownership restructuring 135–6
pollution caused by 135, 154, 223
in Taiwan 30, 142, 162, 206
Stockholm Convention on Persistent
Organic Pollutants (SCPOPs) 74
Su Huanzhi 166, 200–201, 203, 205,
207–8, 216
Sung Dynasty 24
sustainable development
assessment of 82–3
barriers to implementation 86–7
biodiversity and 177, 179
criticism of 164
defined 82
funding of 88
implementation efforts 169
importance to economic growth 88,
179
as integration vehicle 87–8
see alsoAgenda 21
Ta Kung Pao 213
Tainan Bird Association 167
Tainan County 198, 200, 206, 207
Taiwan
colonial era (1895–1945) 29–30, 127
cross-strait trade 150–54
democratization 12–13, 31, 35, 93,
129, 141–2, 161, 164, 186–7,
196–7, 208, 215, 224–6
diplomatic isolation 17, 81, 94, 167,
230
economic growth 12, 30–31, 149
size and geography 7
Taiwan Biodiversity National
Information Network (TaiBNET) 61
Taiwan Coastal Area Natural
Environmental Protection Plan
124
Taiwan Coastal Protection Association
(TCPA) 200
Taiwan Environmental Protection Union
(TEPU) 164–5, 166
Taiwan Forestry Bureau 78, 121, 124
Taiwan GBIF National Node (TaiBIF)
61–2
Taiwan independence 31, 152
Taiwan keleteeria 78
Tang Dynasty 74
Tang Hsiyang 178
Tang Shui-yan and Ching-ping Tang
195–6
Tang Shui-yan, Ching-ping Tang and
Carlos Wing-Hung Lo 213
Tao Te Ching 20
Taoism 19, 20, 24
task force report (PATF) 107, 109, 110,
111, 113–14, 116
see also China’s Protected Areas
Tayal see Atayal tribe
technology transfer 151, 154–5, 223
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) 52, 60,
111, 179–80, 184, 228
Three Gorges Dam 11, 211, 215
criticism of 61, 209
resettlement 218n49
Three Rivers Area 209
see also Sanjiangyuan
three waves of environmentalism 159–60
Tiananmen Square 171
Tibet Autonomous Region (Xizang) 40,
51, 52
Tibetan antelope 52, 178
tigers 51, 65n33, 120
tourism seeeco-tourism
town and village enterprises (TVEs)
136–7
toxic waste dumping 10, 153–4
trade and foreign investment 149–54
traditional Chinese medicine 11, 51, 53,
54, 73
traditional ecological knowledge 116–17,
121
TRAFFIC 96n25, 229
treaties, environmental 72–5, 81–3, 93,
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