Abstract
Biodiversity and landscape diversity are Taiwan’s main environmental characteristics. However, due to urbanization and rapid development, hazardous events have caused great damage in the last decade. In particular, they have increased the number of casualties and have led to significant economic losses in heavily populated hazardous areas. Moreover, climate change is likely to increase the variability of hydro-meteorological hazard patterns, which will further augment uncertainty and decrease the resilience of populations in disaster-prone areas. Therefore, decision makers in the integrated environmental management field in Taiwan need to apply systematic planning in terms of performing risk assessments and monitoring implementations. As an instrument for promoting sustainable development, spatial planning plays an important role in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. A literature review was carried out to verify the location and characteristics of areas that have historically been disaster-prone. Based on this review, we mapped the risks to determine the potentially hazardous areas. These climate risk maps help distinguish vulnerability to climate change from that to other natural hazards. The risk maps are essential for appropriate spatial planning in that they help decision makers determine disaster-prone areas in which (further) land development should be avoided and identify non-hazardous areas that may be used in emergencies, for example, when evacuation is necessary. The results of the risk assessment and scenario development contribute to national-level policymaking on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.
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TWD97 is the coordinate system of the Taiwan geodetic datum 1997.
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The plum rain season refers to the East Asian rainy season of nearly 2Â months of continuous precipitation (from the late spring to the early summer).
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My thanks go to the team of the environment and climate change project at National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR) in Taiwan who provided the relevant data for this case study.
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Lin, YF. (2015). Solution-Based Spatial Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Taiwan. In: Werlen, B. (eds) Global Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16477-9_12
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