Wan Yu Liu

National Chung Hsing University | NCHU · Department of Forestry

The 2020-2021 drought in Taiwan halted carbon sequestration in its predominantly evergreen subtropical forests. The analysis uncovers a significant correlation between Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE), radiative factors, groundwater levels, and wildfires, indicating that the severity of droughts leads to a shift from carbon absorption to emission in th...

Estimating Wildfire Potential in Taiwan Under Different Climate Change Scenarios

Introduction Clear-cutting an even-aged pure forest is a conventional forest operation for wood production. However, this type of operation is unsuitable for sustainable management with multiple disadvantages. By contrast, mixed forests are a forestation strategy that accommodates diversity. This study aims to assess and compare the timber value an...

The bamboo industry in Taiwan was very prosperous in the early days. However, with the development of the industry, bamboo was replaced by plastics, metals, and composite materials. There are different ways to process bamboo waste from the bamboo processing industry. This study aimed to analyze the economic benefits of different processing methods...

Due to the affordable take-away price, Taiwanese tends to eat outside and thus the food self-sufficiency rate of Taiwan has decreased, only 31% in 2021. This study analyzed the factors associated with the decision-making of Taiwanese families regarding breakfast and dinner away from home. The results revealed the significant effects of region of re...

17 In spring 2021, Nepal underwent a record wildfire season in which active fires were detected at a 18 rate 10 times greater than the 2001-2020 average. Prior to these major wildfire events, the country 19 experienced a prolonged precipitation deficit and extreme drought during the post-monsoon period (starting 20 in October 2020). An analysis usi...

Factors such as invasive species, agricultural expansion, and climate change have resulted in global biodiversity loss. When engaging in agricultural expansion, private landowners often choose to plant crops with higher returns than forests provide. However, planting crops leads to the land with low plant coverage, negatively affecting the ecology...

Mines are mostly located in the mountains and national forestlands in Taiwan. The development and use of mines have severely damaged the environment. Despite the long history of mining, the value of forest ecological services lost during mining operations have not yet been incorporated into the expenses borne by miners, and miners are not liable fo...

This perspective explores the complex interplay between climate risks and Taiwan's financial system, emphasizing the critical role of data-driven approaches for resilience and policy development. The paper outlines the unique challenges that Taiwan faces in mitigating climate risks within its financial sector. Despite a delayed focus on this issue,...

Taiwan has an extremely low wood self-sufficiency rate (< 1%) and the Forestry Bureau of Taiwan intends to revitalize forestry to alleviate it. A demand for domestic wood products can effectively increase Taiwan’s wood self-sufficiency rate, but how the demand can be increased is currently unknown. Most young consumers are highly educated and have...

This study examines tourism professionals’ perceptions of climate change and their reactions to the associated challenges. Sixteen in-depth interviews with tourism professionals who work at Arctic destinations in Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark (i.e. Greenland), reveal that the professionals acknowledge several pressing issues arising from cl...

Applying clear-cutting to an even-aged pure forest is a conventional forest operation for wood production. However, this kind of operation is not suitable for sustainable management with multiple objectives. In contrast, mixed-forest is a forestation strategy that accommodates diversity. The goal of this study was to assess an operation model that...

COVID-19 global pandemic has caused massive disruption of travel behaviors along with other aspects of human life, such as social distancing, staying at home, and avoiding crowds. People substituted outdoor activities for indoor activities, and the forest environment has become a popular alternative. Taiwan has a high population density, but it had...

In 2016, Taiwan's new government of President Tsai proposed a "New Southbound Policy" (NSP) for the country's diplomatic strategic planning to maintain long-term positive relations with the ASEAN and South Asian countries. The basic principles of Taiwan in promoting the NSP are longstanding, non-political and effective. The longstanding relationshi...

Applying clear-cutting to an even-aged pure forest is a conventional forest operation for wood production. However, this kind of operation is not suitable for sustainable management with multiple objectives. In contrast, mixed-forest is a forestation strategy that accommodates diversity. The goal of this study was to assess an operation model that...

It is a common practice for many studies using the contingent valuation method (CVM) to censor protest responses, but this practice may make data structures incomplete and lead to sample selection bias at the final analysis stage for economic evaluation. This study adopted the CVM to assess the economic value of Qiedong-Wang-Gong (Bischofia javanic...

As compared with conventional approaches for reducing carbon emissions, the strategies of reducing emissions from deforestations and forest degradation (REDD) can greatly reduce costs. Hence, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change regards the REDD strategies as a crucial approach to mitigate climate change. To respond to climate...

This study aimed to construct an effective model to estimate the recreation value and total annual recreation benefits of the Alishan National Forest Recreation Area (ANFR) through the travel cost method. Negative binomial regression was also employed to estimate the demand function. This study sorted participants based on gender, age, level of edu...

Although many ultraviolet-visible-near-infrared transmission spectroscopy techniques have been applied to chicken egg studies, such techniques are not suitable for duck eggs because duck eggshells are much thicker than chicken eggshells. In this study, a high-transmission spectrometer using an equilateral prism as a dispersive element and a flash l...

Forests account for 60% of lands in Taiwan. Climate change impacts forests in many aspects and is increasingly likely to undermine the ability of forests to provide basic ecosystem services. To help reduce the impact of climate change on Taiwan's forests, people must be made aware of the relationship between climate change and forests. Based on que...

Urban forests offer multiple functions: they can balance negative effects from the environment and provide the public with a place for leisure and recreation. Hence, urban forests are crucial to urban ecology and have been widely studied. In addition, relevant study results were applied for policymaking in urban development and forest park manageme...

Nowadays, climate change presents as the fundamental global challenge for humanity. In the last two decades, environmental damage and global warming have become increasingly severe and frightening and have had tremendous negative impacts on humankind's lives globally. Natural disasters such as floods, soil, water, and air pollution, extreme climate...

To eradicate illegally harvested wood sources in its domestic market, it is critical to conduct risk assessments on wood sourcing in regions with illegal loggings. It is not reliable to use a single indicator to analyze suspicious illegal logging. This study integrates three key global indicators: CPI (Corruption Perceptions Index), HDI (Human Deve...

Climate change leads to a variety of extreme weather conditions such as heat waves, unusual cold weather, and heavy rain, which always ends up with serious disasters. It could have a tremendous impact on a lot of industries in the world. The tourist industry, that plays a vital role in the global economy, has faced serious impacts from climate chan...

This study draws a structured questionnaire survey on visitors to the National Xinhua Urban Forest Park, located in the southern part of Taiwan. Consequently, it deploys the Impact Range Performance Analysis (IPRA) and Impact-Asymmetry Analysis (IAA) in evaluating the service quality of the park under investigation, which shed some light on the ser...

This research evaluates whether the attainment of certification could affect the career perspectives of hospitality and tourism graduates. It collects a set of survey data on 729 tourism and hospitality graduates from 38 colleges and vocational schools in Taiwan. The resultant data demonstrate that those acquiring a professional certificate are mor...

This research delineates the perceptions of tourism in the Arctic. It deploys a qualitative study to disentangle the complicity of perceived impacts amongst three types of tourism stakeholders: (1) residents, (2) tourists, and (3) tourism professionals working in hotels, tour operations, restaurants, tourist information centers, and tourism plannin...

Many studies have shown that the weather greatly affects the tourist count. Understanding weather information, climate change, and how they influence the tourist count in different tourist seasons (peak season, second peak season, off season) can help park planners and managers to analyze the opportunities and risks caused by climate change. This s...

This study takes the littering of tourists in Xitou Nature Education Area in Taiwan as an example to analyze the relationships among tourists' environmental attitude, vandalism and cognitive dissonance. In this study, 500 questionnaires are distributed, and 499 questionnaires are returned. The subjects are the tourists of over 18 years of age in th...

Climate change is a natural condition that is beyond human control and has an impact on various aspects of life. Agriculture is the sector most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In Indonesia, climate change impacts have significant implications, especially for national food security and energy supply. Several studies state that without a...

Purpose This research aims to grasp hotel guests' motives and potential benefits sought when interacting with other guests, service personnel and residents and examines how these benefits can contribute to the total guest experience. Design/methodology/approach Mixed methods are adopted for the purpose of this study comprising individual interview...

Taiwan relies heavily on food supply from international trade. It has a high population density and food production is insufficient. The labor force population is declining year by year due to the low fertility rate and aging population. In 2018, Taiwan's food self-sufficiency rate is only 35%. Additionally, the actual production of agricultural la...

This study adopted the contingent valuation method (CVM) to estimate the annual economic value of Qiedong-Wang-Gong (Bischofia javanica), the only urban heritage tree that was over a thousand years old in Taiwan, having the largest population in Central Taiwan. In this study, 307 samples were collected and classifying and excluding the protest resp...

In recent years, the trend in coffee consumption has increased rapidly in various countries, especially in Indonesia. The government has predicted that there will be a significant increase in domestic coffee consumption in the coming years-the central government plans to increase the role of coffee commodities in the national and global circular ec...

Purpose Theoretical and empirical developments in academic literature have not been able to keep pace with the growing industry focus on eco-innovation and green hospitality practices. This paper aims to address this gap and provide an up-to-date review of research on eco-innovative practices in 13 leading hospitality journals over the past two dec...

Through a qualitative lens involving both in-depth interviews and focus groups, this research attempts to probe the issues of environmental transgressions caused by tourists and tourism providers in one of the oldest and largest national parks in India, the Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR), Uttrakhand. It reveals that even though tourism stakeholders ar...

Due to the fragility of forest ecosystems, developing forest recreational resources must consider sustainable ecological, economic, and social development, and reduce impacts from recreational activities. Diverse forests with different biodiversity could promote forest ecosystem services and resistance to the pressure of tourism development. Under...

The Huisun National Forest Recreation Area (HNFRA), which preserves over 85% of the forest to its natural state, provides many forest services, including environmental exploration, ecological conservation, recreation, and ecotourism in Taiwan. This study used analytical methods to analyze the recreational demands that influence tourists’ visits and...

High quality service is beneficial to improve satisfaction of the tourists visiting national forest parks. However, few works assessed the management performance in national forest parks, although a lot of works did it in other industries. Therefore, this study aims to assess the management performance of the Huisun National Forest Recreation Area...

Forest thinning is a way to make room for the growth of remaining trees, and the thinned wood can serve as a fuel for bioenergy in order to combat climate change. Using thinned wood for bioenergy can substitute for fossil fuel energy, resulting in potential carbon benefit. Since not all thinned wood can be transported out of the forest for processi...

This research constructs the critical predictors of visitation that shall allow the practitioners to foresee the visitation in the years to come through secondary data. For this study, tourist arrival data associated with the most popular forest park (i.e., Xiton Forest Park) in Taiwan along with relevant socio-economic data are utilized. This rese...

This study explores preferences for a set of attributes that characterize the recreational value of Calligraphy Greenway, the most notable greenbelt in Taichung City, Taiwan. As an urban green space, the Calligraphy Greenway has its own recreational attributes and visitors’ preferences. This study uses the choice experiment method to determine visi...

Forests play an important role as carbon sinks by sequestrating carbon through photosynthesis. Thinning treatments have large impacts on carbon storage, in addition to strengthening quality and quantity of plantations. This study analyzed the effects of different thinning treatments on carbon stocks in both individual trees and stands of Taiwania (...

In home health care (HHC) services, nurses or professional caregivers are dispatched to patients’ homes to provide medical care services, such that each patient can stay at home to be treated periodically. The HHC problem consists of the nurse rostering problem (NRP) and the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW), both of which are NP-ha...

Developing sustainable island tourism must be thoroughly evaluated in consideration of ecological, economic, and social factors on account of the fragility of island ecosystems. This study evaluated the ecological footprint (EF) and ecological capacity of Liuqiu Island from 2010 to 2015 using the EF model, establishing an indicator to estimate the...

This study conducts a survey on the urban forest parks in Taiwan to assess the benefits and affecting factors. The results show that the larger the area of the park, the higher the degree of satisfaction with the landscape and the status of the plants, and the higher the density of trees, the lower the degree of satisfaction with the scenic view. T...

The protective forests in the Taitung Forest Park, Taiwan, are studied to explore the potential recreational benefits in the year 2014. First, the importance performance analysis and stepwise discriminant analysis are first adopted to analyze the relationship between the tourist satisfaction and environmental factors. The contingent valuation metho...

This study is the first to assess the recreation benefit by incorporating the factor of first-visit satisfaction into different recreation demand models, including linear travel-cost-method model, the truncated Poisson recreation demand estimation model, the negative binomial regression model, and corrected Cobb-Douglas linear cost function model....

A green forestation plan (GFP) is expected to promote the reforestation of plains totaling 60,000 ha within the first 8 yr in Taiwan. Annual subsidies for landlords, is NT$120,000 (US$ 4,000) per hectare, and NT$2.4 million for 20 yr. In this paper, we surveyed landlords' opinions towards the GFP in an attempt to understand their incentives to part...