Location Suitability Analysis of Environmental Education Facilities

摘要

Environment Education (EE) becomes more and more important in Taiwan ever since the Environmental Education Act (EEA) was implemented in 2011. One of the essential promotion policies is to establish Environmental Education Facilities (EEF). By the end of January 2014, there were 78 facilities certified in Taiwan, nevertheless the current standards of certification are still lack of various aspects for consideration. This study attempts to include the environmental factors such as transportation accessibility and vegetation cover ratio to examine the location suitability with the EEF cases in central Taiwan. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) were derived from satellite data to represent the vegetation cover ratio. Meanwhile, the transportation accessibility and services range were analyzed by G1S. With the improved criteria of EEF allocation, the facilities are expected to generate more policy effect in the future.