Wannian River Restoration, Taiwan

Resource System
urban river
Resource Units
multiple urban ecosystem services
Location
Taiwan

Wannian River Restoration case is part of the comparative urban river restoration analysis developed between 2019 to 2020 by Herlin Chien at United Nations University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability in Japan. The common pool resource system is the Wannian River (5.5 km) located in a medium sized city of Pingtung with 200,000 inhabitants. This case is most known as one of the best practices of urban river restoration program in Taiwan, undertaking several major river form, process and function improvements between 2007 and 2018.