Because of the global sustainable development trend and the aim to become a recycling society, many countries have recently selected appropriate areas to establish ecological or environmental science and technology parks. The concept is to allow the industry to make a connection between input and output, thereby expanding to connect the living circles of cities. The final objective is to infuse industrial development into ecologically recycled systems. Countries such as Denmark, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands, and Japan have all implemented such projects. To comply with the global sustainable development trend and the aim to become a recycling society, the Taiwan EPA is in the process of establishing four environmental science and technology parks (ESTPs)。 For the purpose of quickly setting up these ESTPs, The ESTP Guidance committee have held 5 committees，and the EPA have held 16 work shops on the ESTPs design, construction & invitation of investors this year(2004). To actively invite prospective investors, the project team has completed the necessary documents. And 15 Seminars on the ESTPs were held around Taiwan so far this year。A total of 570 attended the seminars. Moreover, local visitations were made to more than 77 firms with follow-up work to be carried out. Now there are 7 companies approved into the Kaohsiung ESTP。 In order to let members of various sectors know about the ESTPs, this report has collected informations on environmental science and technology parks for reference.We hope by this way, people of all sectors can get to know the ESTP and contribute their valuable input so as to advance Taiwan’s environmental technology and raise the quality of the environment.

ecologically,Environmental Science and Technology Park,Sustainable development