Abstract
To address the increasing impact of global warming, Taiwan has devised a variety of activities to promote energy savings and carbon reduction. Although the city of Tainan was the first in Asia to enforce an anti-idling policy, the intersection between public value creation and local sustainable development has not yet been analyzed. Hence, this article explores the anti-idling policy in Tainan through the lens of social judgment theory (SJT). It also considers criteria related to the core values of environmental, economic, and social sustainability to understand the public values held by stakeholders in Tainan. The results of this article illustrate and dismantle the differences between several groups’ understanding of public value as it relates to local sustainable development, and suggest the establishment of intersectoral collaboration and community participation regarding value perception. Although the case is specific to Taiwan, its characteristics are typical of local sustainable development globally, especially in Asia.
Highlights
Cities need to be understood as urban ecosystems that are composed of interactions between their social, biological, and physical components [1]
This study focuses on the “Autonomous Anti-Idling Regulations of Tainan City”, utilizing social judgment theory (SJT)
In the process of promoting local sustainable policies, stakeholders should actively explore the public value pursued by the policy development and define the core values of diverse communities in the process of local sustainable policies, so as to promote, change, and even shape the public value that contributes to a sustainable environment [84]
Summary
Cities need to be understood as urban ecosystems that are composed of interactions between their social, biological, and physical components [1]. The city of Tainan was the first to formulate and promote an anti-idling policy in Taiwan. The Environmental Protection Bureau of the Tainan City Government was honoured as “The Most Creative Public Servant of Environmental Protection in Taiwan” by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) It is the supervisory authority of each county and city environmental protection bureau. When pursuing legislation regarding “Autonomous Anti-Idling Regulations of Tainan City”, the Environmental Protection Bureau of the Tainan City Government held consultations to promote the policy and to solicit feedback [7]. It seemed that the general public, non-profit organizations, and private sectors had limited opportunities to provide comments [8]
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