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TXT-tool 4.886-1.4: Ecological: Countermeasure Guidelines and Case Histories in Taiwan

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Over the past decade, the ecological engineering method in Taiwan has been concentrated principally in river restoration and slope protection. In September, 1999, Taiwan was severely affected by the Chi-Chi earthquake. The Public Construction Committee of Executive Yuan decided to rebuild the disaster area using ecologically sound measures and since 1999 has became the leading governmental agency promoting ecological engineering. In 2000–2004, more than 90% of so-called ecological engineering projects in Taiwan were associated with river stabilization, river reconstruction, and slope stabilization conducted by the Water Resource Agency, Water and Soil Conservation Agency, and local public sectors governed by these two agencies. This paper describes two typical case histories in Taiwan, Chichawan Creek Stabilization Project and Dahgo Creek Reconstruction Project.

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  1. Water Environment Research Center, National Taipei University of Technology, 1, Sec. 3, Chung-Hsiao E. Rd., Taipei, 106, Taiwan

    Chia-Chun Ho & Jen-Yang Lin

  2. Energy Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S Cass Ave Bldg 362, Rm E313, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA

    Yi Wen Chiu

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  1. International Consortium on Landslides, Kyoto, Japan

    Kyoji Sassa

  2. Civil and Environmental Engineering, California State University, Fullerton, California, USA

    Binod Tiwari

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Ko-Fei Liu

  4. GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

    Mauri McSaveney

  5. Geodynamics Research Center—branch of JSC “Hydroproject Institute”, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander Strom

  6. Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan

    Hendy Setiawan

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Ho, CC., Lin, JY., Chiu, Y.W. (2018). TXT-tool 4.886-1.4: Ecological: Countermeasure Guidelines and Case Histories in Taiwan. In: Sassa, K., Tiwari, B., Liu, KF., McSaveney, M., Strom, A., Setiawan, H. (eds) Landslide Dynamics: ISDR-ICL Landslide Interactive Teaching Tools . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57777-7_45

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