IoT for Environmental Management and Security Governance: An Integrated Project in Taiwan

Yu-Fang Lin, Tzu-Yin Chang, Wen-Ray Su and Rong-Kang Shang
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Yu-Fang Lin: Legend Environmental Consulting Co., Ltd., Taipei 105405, Taiwan
Tzu-Yin Chang: National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, Taipei 231228, Taiwan
Wen-Ray Su: National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, Taipei 231228, Taiwan
Rong-Kang Shang: National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, Taipei 231228, Taiwan

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Taiwan is in a hazard-exposed area where people often suffer through typhoons, earthquakes, and landslides, and must face the challenges of environmental and climate changes in ongoing and future developments. Taiwan has implemented an integrated and interdisciplinary project, which is titled Civil IoT Taiwan, for better disaster risk management and risk communication with all stakeholders by cooperating closely with authorities, scientists, and industry. The purposes of this project are to raise public risk awareness to reduce disaster damage and loss and sustainably increase the social, economic, and environmental impacts. For measuring the social impacts of the Civil IoT Taiwan, the social return on investment (SROI) is an evaluation tool to demonstrate the outcomes and impacts of Civil IoT Taiwan to measure its social effects. The SROI ratio of this project is 1.12. Civil IoT Taiwan has just implemented the first development stage in establishing infrastructure for monitoring and sensing; thus, the significant changes and impacts on society, economics, and the environment will be evaluated in the next phase. This ongoing project will also involve more stakeholders for more sustainable and resilient environmental governance in future development.

Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT); social return on investment (SROI); Civil IoT Taiwan; security governance; environmental sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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