From an environmental perspective, Taiwan not only ranks as one of
the more polluted places on earth, it also has a unique mix of
factors that account for the island's relatively weak standing on
the environmental front. First, the island is relatively small in
proportion to its population so the impact of humans upon the
environment is more intense than in less densely populated places.
Second, the island experienced a highly successful economic
transformation in the last 50 years that produced one of Asia's
genuine 'miracles' of modern development, in terms of improvement
in per capita income and overall quality of material well being for
its citizens. The process, though, involved rapid industrialization
and urbanization, and breakneck mass consumption, that inevitably
resulted in rapid escalation in degradation of the island's fragile
air, water, and land, and produced some of the worst environmental
pollution to be found anywhere in Asia. Third, the island suffered
for more than 40 years under an authoritarian one-party government
that ran the island virtually unchecked in terms of development
policies and allocation of the island's physical resources. The
result was that abuses to the environment were buried under the
rhetoric of higher priorities in the government's ongoing struggle
with the Chinese government in Beijing. In short, the environment
had to wait.
In this book Jack Williams and Ch'ang-yi David Chang examine the
causes of Taiwan's environmental predicament, engaging in Taiwan's
unique geological, geographical, demographical, political,
industrial, historical and economic circumstances with a view to
what can be done to improve Taiwan's environmental future.
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