Abstract
Mitigation and adaptation have become two main strategies that governments around the world are focusing on in response to the threat of global climate change. In August 2009, Typhoon Morakot heavily damaged the central and southern parts of Taiwan, causing irreversible damage to the environment, especially in the mountain areas. In this study, the goal is to attain sustainable reservoir management, thus comprehensive storm water management is used to develop mitigation strategies. Overlay-map methods of GIS, along with vulnerability analysis and land use sustainability analysis, are used to map out optimal land use patterns containing development potentials, growth limits, and suitability concerns that aim to reduce the impact of human development on the ecological environment. Finally, the mitigation strategies proposed by this study for the land use of Zengwen Reservoir and its catchment will be implement shortly.
Highlights
With the increasing consequences of global climate change (GCC) and the greenhouse effect, how humans adapt to these consequences, continue their lives, adjust in land use, social-economic development, and achieve a stable and balanced natural system are as important as mitigation
In response to extreme climate change, the goal of this study is to develop the response to environment changes for sustainable life and industrial development through the adjustment between social economy and land use based on the principles of mitigation and adaptation [1]
Damage Caused by Typhoon Morakot From August 6 to 10, 2009, central and southern Taiwan had been badly hit by the prolonged heavy rains induced by Typhoon Morakot, which left 699 dead or missing, 1622 houses damaged, 1.2 billion cubic meters of hillside debris collapsed, 30 meters of silt accumulated at sediment dams, 30 meters of silt accumulated at river valley and 76,535 hectares flooded in Taiwan [8] [9]
Summary
With the increasing consequences of global climate change (GCC) and the greenhouse effect, how humans adapt to these consequences, continue their lives, adjust in land use, social-economic development, and achieve a stable and balanced natural system are as important as mitigation. For this reason, both mitigation and adaptation have been major areas of focus in the government’s response to the threat of climate change [1]. Chow the study suggests land use adjustments [7] to reduce the impact of human development on the ecological environment of catchment area and eventually achieve the goal of sustainable reservoir management
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