英文摘要 |
Coastal zone management and environmental protection brought inevitable challenges to many countries when we face dramatic impact by climate change. With rapid developments of renewable energy, land use, energy governance and conservation of coastal resources also became critical issues to Taiwan. After reviewing the transformation of planning laws, this paper found that positive applications of the ideas of planning laws, laid legal foundations for policy stability and flexibility to some extent. This paper scrutinized the connection between the regulations of coastal land use and energy governance, trying to expound how planning laws could play important roles for improving coordination and cooperation among different agencies, especially in their programming of long-term development strategies. From the perspective of comparative law, this paper found that the Coastal Zone Management Act of Taiwan did not completely adopt the consistency review mechanism as its counterpart of the United States. Instead, the current design of this legislation, with a top-down reviewing integration approach, could be more appropriate for Taiwanese situation. However, in terms of the relevance among comprehensive coastal zone management plan and other planning laws, it should be emphasized that agencies need to enhance their coordination when they reconciled various values set by legislative purposes. This paper argued it is important to clarify the potential conflicts of interests and concerned values as the beginning process of energy facilities siting. It would be helpful to balance environmental protection and coastal development necessity with resort to the evaluation and compromise by planning regulations. To keep the pathway for energy transition of Taiwan, it was imperative to incorporate national interest of energy governance in early planning stages. It would be of great valuable experiences for us to learn from the CZMA of the United States. |