As the starting point, this paper introduces the development of globalisation and the evolution o... more As the starting point, this paper introduces the development of globalisation and the evolution of the international legal order and then discusses the interaction between the two. The article then explores the impact of the “concept” and “practice” of globalisation on the evolution of the international fisheries’ legal system by taking “sustainable development” and “international trade” as the probes to gain a practical understanding of the protection and conservation of high seas fisheries’ resources. The authors argued that the international law of the sea is an ever-renewing legal system, especially in the regulation of conserving and managing high seas fisheries resources, which has undergone tremendous and drastic changes in recent decades due to the development of global trade, the strengthening of environmental issues, and the flourishing of international organisations. Obviously, globalisation is an important and fundamental driving force behind it. The authors presented fi...
The fertility rate of Taiwan has been decreasing since World War II. The total fertility rate (TF... more The fertility rate of Taiwan has been decreasing since World War II. The total fertility rate (TFR) of 7.04 in 1953 has fallen below replacement level since then (net reproduction rate was 0.96 in 1984). The number went up and down within a range of about 1.75 from 1986 to 1996. When TFR dropped below 1.5 in 1998, people considered this low fertility rate a temporal phenomenon, as it was both a “tiger year” and a “year of loneliness.” Although the number climbed back only a little (to 1.55), it was still not taken as change of childbearing patterns because it was thought that people might delay to have children until the year 2000, a “dragon year.” In 2000, however, the TFR returned only to 1.68, which was not strong enough to compensate for the loss of the previous two years. The situation has been even worse since 2000. By 2005, TFR had reached 1.12. These data demonstrate that the TFR has been in another wave of decrease since 1997, with the millennium showing an exceptional effe...
In this article we explore the transformation of Taiwanese welfare regime and its possible scenar... more In this article we explore the transformation of Taiwanese welfare regime and its possible scenarios in the coming future. In order to apply welfare regime to Taiwan’s case, we first give a critical inspection on Esping-Andersen’s Three Worlds model and propose that analysis of historical institutions, instead of quantitative index, should be a better approach to extend regime analysis into other developing countries. Second, due to Taiwan’s highly export-dependent development, institutional analysis on domestic transitions of capitalism and welfare regime must take into consideration global/regional structural changes, especially East Asian regionalism, as an embedded matrix. We divide welfare regime in Taiwan into three periods. The first one was the period of the Bretton Woods System from 1945 to 1979, in which Taiwan’s conservative welfare regime based on occupational social insurance was set up within the US anti-communist strategy and the KMT authoritarianism. The second perio...
Social Insurance was a key institutional invention for the rise of welfare state in the nineteent... more Social Insurance was a key institutional invention for the rise of welfare state in the nineteenth century. It spreads risks that severely impact individuals to social collective and thus promote social security as a whole. Nevertheless, social insurances involve to categories people according to insurance principles usually defined by the state. Social insurances are thus not only one way to deal with social security by rational principles, but also represent rearrangements of political and social power. It is political craft for risk governance. In this article, we explore how Taiwanese government tries to reach its political expectations in different historical periods by re-classifying people with different social insurance principle. The historical analysis of welfare capitalism employed in this article is a better way to discover complicated political, economic, and social interactions and to explain potential welfare institutional transformation in the future.
Proceedings of Innovation in Architecture, Engineering and Construction 2008, 2008
Qualitative Archi Bond Graphs (QABGs) are energy-based unified representations for buildings that... more Qualitative Archi Bond Graphs (QABGs) are energy-based unified representations for buildings that can be used for building simulations at the early stage of designing. This paper presents an approach to their scalability and flexibility when applied to the simulation of the behaviour of buildings with complex spatial structures or building dynamics under time varying situations. Keywords: bond graphs, qualitative, representation, scalability
As the starting point, this paper introduces the development of globalisation and the evolution o... more As the starting point, this paper introduces the development of globalisation and the evolution of the international legal order and then discusses the interaction between the two. The article then explores the impact of the “concept” and “practice” of globalisation on the evolution of the international fisheries’ legal system by taking “sustainable development” and “international trade” as the probes to gain a practical understanding of the protection and conservation of high seas fisheries’ resources. The authors argued that the international law of the sea is an ever-renewing legal system, especially in the regulation of conserving and managing high seas fisheries resources, which has undergone tremendous and drastic changes in recent decades due to the development of global trade, the strengthening of environmental issues, and the flourishing of international organisations. Obviously, globalisation is an important and fundamental driving force behind it. The authors presented fi...
The fertility rate of Taiwan has been decreasing since World War II. The total fertility rate (TF... more The fertility rate of Taiwan has been decreasing since World War II. The total fertility rate (TFR) of 7.04 in 1953 has fallen below replacement level since then (net reproduction rate was 0.96 in 1984). The number went up and down within a range of about 1.75 from 1986 to 1996. When TFR dropped below 1.5 in 1998, people considered this low fertility rate a temporal phenomenon, as it was both a “tiger year” and a “year of loneliness.” Although the number climbed back only a little (to 1.55), it was still not taken as change of childbearing patterns because it was thought that people might delay to have children until the year 2000, a “dragon year.” In 2000, however, the TFR returned only to 1.68, which was not strong enough to compensate for the loss of the previous two years. The situation has been even worse since 2000. By 2005, TFR had reached 1.12. These data demonstrate that the TFR has been in another wave of decrease since 1997, with the millennium showing an exceptional effe...
In this article we explore the transformation of Taiwanese welfare regime and its possible scenar... more In this article we explore the transformation of Taiwanese welfare regime and its possible scenarios in the coming future. In order to apply welfare regime to Taiwan’s case, we first give a critical inspection on Esping-Andersen’s Three Worlds model and propose that analysis of historical institutions, instead of quantitative index, should be a better approach to extend regime analysis into other developing countries. Second, due to Taiwan’s highly export-dependent development, institutional analysis on domestic transitions of capitalism and welfare regime must take into consideration global/regional structural changes, especially East Asian regionalism, as an embedded matrix. We divide welfare regime in Taiwan into three periods. The first one was the period of the Bretton Woods System from 1945 to 1979, in which Taiwan’s conservative welfare regime based on occupational social insurance was set up within the US anti-communist strategy and the KMT authoritarianism. The second perio...
Social Insurance was a key institutional invention for the rise of welfare state in the nineteent... more Social Insurance was a key institutional invention for the rise of welfare state in the nineteenth century. It spreads risks that severely impact individuals to social collective and thus promote social security as a whole. Nevertheless, social insurances involve to categories people according to insurance principles usually defined by the state. Social insurances are thus not only one way to deal with social security by rational principles, but also represent rearrangements of political and social power. It is political craft for risk governance. In this article, we explore how Taiwanese government tries to reach its political expectations in different historical periods by re-classifying people with different social insurance principle. The historical analysis of welfare capitalism employed in this article is a better way to discover complicated political, economic, and social interactions and to explain potential welfare institutional transformation in the future.
Proceedings of Innovation in Architecture, Engineering and Construction 2008, 2008
Qualitative Archi Bond Graphs (QABGs) are energy-based unified representations for buildings that... more Qualitative Archi Bond Graphs (QABGs) are energy-based unified representations for buildings that can be used for building simulations at the early stage of designing. This paper presents an approach to their scalability and flexibility when applied to the simulation of the behaviour of buildings with complex spatial structures or building dynamics under time varying situations. Keywords: bond graphs, qualitative, representation, scalability
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