[[alternative]]The research about process of developing the environmental actions of ecological protection of Da-tun River

[[abstract]]This research aimed at the process of developing the environment movements of ecological protection of Da-tun River and collected the information using a character-analysis method. As regards the informational analysis, this research consulted the classification and analysis of social environmental education participants from Wan, Jin-ming(1995) to classify the participants into six professional groups: 1.the local people; 2.the professionals and scholars; 3.the teachers; 4.the media; 5.the protection groups; 6.the government, and did the role analysis of the environmental actions with the theory of “giver”, “medium” and “acceptor”, and, in addition, classified the total 114 environmental actions related to Da-tun River which happened between Aug.1997-May 2002 into five types of environmental actions :1.educational guidance; 2.political movement; 3.legal movement; 4.ecological research; 5.ecological management, and illustrated their individual function and influence with true cases. This research discovered from the process of developing the environmental actions of Da-tun River that the Ministry of Education once entrusted the Environmental Education Certre of National Taiwan Normal University to visit and conduct the environmental protection teams in high schools of North Taiwan, and that just served as a catalyst to make the professionals and scholars join the performance of environmental protection of Da-tun River. Under the guidance of the professionals and scholars, the local people and teachers began to unite with the local power to push the government into dredging the Da-tun River in a most harmless way. Moreover, the establishment of the Taipei Institute of Rivers’ Ecological Protection also helped the design for riverside communities and the work for environmental education become more and more active. This research shows the chief among the environmental actions of the Da-tun River is the “educational guidance” at present, which offers the participants a new stage to communicate face to face. The “political movement” is actually a service to support the ecological protection, so the participants are going on a soft political route, but not a violent one. The main group to develop the “ecological research” around Da-tun River is the teachers, who have been engaging in local investigations to do the researches concerning the people, the plants, and the environment around the costal small areas. The destination of the “legal movement” is to expose and correct the groups and individuals who illegally destroy the river’s environment, and, hopefully, to build a legal supervision system as soon as possible. The “ ecological management” is working on enforcing a blockade around the river to protect the fishes at present, and hope to specially work on the ecological protection through the cooperation between the six professional groups and seven managing institutions in future. As to the analysis of participants, most of the local people are used to play the role of “acceptor”. The professionals, as well as the scholars, play the roles of “giver” and “medium”. They have been striving for support and help for Da-tun River for long, thus Da-tun River will still need and depend on them deeply in a short time. The teachers play the roles of “medium” and “ acceptor”, and are learning actively to play the “giver” with the help of the professionals and scholars, as well as the ecological protection groups. The media play the role of “medium”. They give full play to their strong and professional communicating power to affect the related policies and to supervise the performance. The protection groups play the role of “medium” for Da-tun River. They play a medium to communicate, coordinate and organize six participants groups. In the respect of educational guidance, they’ve gradually developed the ability to be a “giver”. The government is the “giver” of the related information, the “medium” of administration, as well as the “acceptor” of the concepts of ecological protection. At the end, this research summed up the experiences of the environmental actions happening in different phases in two patterns: 1.the experiential pattern of participating the dredging engineering of Da-tun River and preparing and arranging the Taipei Institute of Rivers’ Ecological Protection; 2.the experiential pattern of developing environmental education of Da-tun River, to offer a valuable practical experience to all the participants who dedicate to rivers’ ecological protection.