新作坊 Humanity Innovation and Social Practice

Abstract

Since 1994, The development of community self-governance in Taiwan have undergone many issues by the community empowerment policy of Taiwan, such as environmental conservation, landscape development, community-based industrial development, community-based healthcare, community safety and humanities education. In the practical experience, this study found some predicaments in three different community empowerment aspects in Taiwan, includes oldfashioned bureaucrat ideas of the policy implement, structure problems of the traditional community living, and empowerment strategy problems of professional organization.

From the theoretical methods, the theory of community cross-boundary governance should be an appropriate approach for community empowerment. According the experience of transition Puli eco-township, the authors found that the transition eco-township had four elements of community governance: to have the eco- conservation consensus of community governance, to initiative interorganizations collaboration, to build cross-sector governance committees, to integrate trans-disciplinary knowledge.