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This chapter mainly describes Taiwan’s policies and legal regimes for sustainability and its future prospective in international participation. First of all, along with the economic development, Taiwan gradually established specific authority for environmental governance, being responsible from prevention of pollution to precautionary measures for guaranteeing sustainable use of natural resources. In the approaching future, a new Ministry of Environment and Resources will be installed for a centralized authority and comprehensive governance. Besides, national programs and strategies announced by the Cabinet in Taiwan, accompanying with related laws and regulations, mostly passed by the legislation, played a significant role in implementations of environmental affairs. In a word, Taiwan has shown its capacity and ambition to cope with the need of sustainability in our age. However, because of its ambiguous status in international arena, Taiwan still lacks opportunities to participate in real, official international cooperation for environmental protection and sustainable development. Some sui generis participation is nevertheless envisaged in a long run.
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Retrieved May 15, 2015, from http://nsdn.epa.gov.tw/en/index.htm.
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Retrieved May 15, 2015, from http://nsdn.epa.gov.tw/20100203.pdf.
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Retrieved May 15, 2015, from http://nsdn.epa.gov.tw/CH/DEVELOPMENT/DEVELOPMENT.HTM.
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Retrieved May 17, 2015, from http://www.ndc.gov.tw/m1.aspx?sNo=0000533#.VVhbUvmqpBc.
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Retrieved May 17, 2015, from http://www.ndc.gov.tw/m1.aspx?sNo=0000604#.VVhdLfmqpBc.
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In Taiwan, in most of the official English translation for the title of laws, which are passed by our Legislative Yuan (the Congress), the word “Act” is used.
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“Efficiency improvements also affect the demand for resources and energy, and often an increase in efficiency by 1 % will cause a reduction in resource use that is far below 1 % or, sometimes, it can even cause an increase in resource use.”
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For those who are interested in the texts of these laws, an official website of Taiwanese Department of Justice provides most of them in English version, retrieved July 28, 2015, from Law and Regulations Database of the Republic of China Web site: http://law.moj.gov.tw/Eng/.
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Retrieved May 17, 2015, from http://unfccc.epa.gov.tw/unfccc/english/index.html.
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Hsu, YM. (2016). Reframing Sustainability in Taiwan: Legal Challenges and Opportunities. In: Mauerhofer, V. (eds) Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26021-1_15
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