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Abstract of my seminar (207 words in English; according to Google Traslate, this article has 387 chinese characters)

In the protected area, it is necessary to establish a legal mechanism to maintain the environmental quality. In this research, we focus on the following questions: (How) does land use affect bird ecology? Can people control the effect of land use on landscape ecology? What can people do? This research tries to examine the efficiency which regulations practice the sustainable planning and management in Hsin-Dian Stream watershed protected area. The efficiency has two dimensions. First, the regulations protect the advantages and potentials. Second, they improve the disadvantages and limitations. Basically, it is a quantitative research including content analysis and statistical analysis.
The first phase compares the legal and practical ecological situation in Hsin-Dian Stream watershed. We are going to review more than N articles form M laws and plans to establish the current legal framework. It aims to address what the legal framework contributes to control the land use. In the second phase, we will examine of the correlation between the land use zoning, which is following the current legal regulation, and bird species. It indices the ecological efficiency of the current land use controlling. According to these results, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of current legal framework, and provide a suggestion for the future regulation.

A new measurement tool?

Most of the research that tries to measure respodents' attentional restorative effect were based on the Attention Restorative Theory (ART). Many researchers have developed the measuring tools to measure people's attention restorative effect. The scales were tested by exposure respondents to different environments, especially natural vs. urban settings. The 4 features of ART which includes being away, fascination, extent (coherence), and compatibility were adopted as the categories of the measuring scale items like the Perceived Restorative Scale (PRS). However, these items include several abstract descriptions that is hard to translate in to Chinese. The translation results come out ambiguous sentences which is hard to be understood by the respondents. Compare to the items in PRS, the attention restorative measurement scales developed by Staats 2003 are easier to translate. Instead of adopt the 4 features of the ART; the scale based its items on the recovery and reflection effect of the restorative environment. Although they carry different measuring items these items still measuring the restorative effect from the environment. Therefore, in our future studies that need to test in Chinese, the scale by Staats 2003 seems a better choice.