Author Description

Taiwan is located in one of the most vulnerable regions of the world with respect to the impacts of climate change and occurrences of weather-related disasters, and faces the highest level of environmental risk. The purpose of this book is to give an overview of the risks we are facing and the adaptation policies we need to adopt. Taiwan has announced that her next step towards securing involvement with the U.N. is to seek meaningful participation in the UNFCCC. This goal indicates that the Taiwanese government has upgraded the climate change issue from the scientific level to the national policy level. This book highlights the efforts of leading experts from various fields related to climate change and provides comprehensive policy recommendations for the Taiwanese Government. We expect that discussion of this issue will mature and produce results following the publication of this book.