2020 CHINESE TAIPEI (TAIWAN)
Development of locally-sensitive indicators of resilience as a tool for adaptive landscape management in Taiwan’s SEPLS
National Dong Hwa University (NDHU)
Partnership building
Landscape, Seascape
Overview
NDHU piloted community-based Resilience Assessment Workshops (RAWs) in 2015-2018. Despite the valuable results from these initial experiences, the following obstacles were observed: (a) ecological and socio-economic risks faced by socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS) were not indicated; (b) Taiwan-specific themes were not reflected by the indicators; (c) the language and visual representation of the indicators were challenging for the local communities. In March 2020 the Forestry Bureau (Council of Agriculture, Taiwan, the FB) welcomed NDHU’s suggestion on conducting community-based RAWs in SEPLS across Taiwan through the network of eight (8) FB district offices.
By learning from “Indicators of Resilience in SEPLS” (Bergamini et al., 2014) and implementation of community-based RAWs, the project’s main objective is to develop a set of locally sensitive (comprehensive, comprehensible, and relevant) indicators of resilience tailored to the specifics of Taiwan’s SEPLS.
The Project will consist of four main types of activities: “Training of Trainers” workshops; community-based RAWs; dissemination of information (publications); and an experience-sharing event (symposium). It is intended to contribute to the following outcomes: 1) assist local communities in getting to know the threats facing their SEPLS’ resilience, determining work priorities and actions, and facilitating community dialogue through RAWs; 2) test (and, potentially, channel) RAWs as an adaptive landscape management tool applied nationwide by the FB district offices (the first time for the indicators of resilience in SEPLS to be employed by the government agencies) and consider its inclusion in Taiwan Ecological Network (TEN) 2022-2025; 3) share this experience with international partners at the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI), the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), and related post-2020 environment processes.
Project location
Organisation

National Dong Hwa University (NDHU)
- Sector
- Academic institute
- Country
- Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)
- Website/SNS
- https://www.ndhu.edu.tw/