Adaptive Mechanism of Collaborative Planning for City-region's Large-scale Compound Disasters in Taiwan

Taiwan is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world. The paper aims for coping with large-scale compound disasters mainly caused by climate change in which a disaster adaptive mechanism to be taken, and how to use cross-border cooperation in city-region to initiate adaptive mechanism in Taiwan by reviewing the past experiences. Through a literature review, the paper expects to provide adaptive model for spatial planning and disaster prevention planning so as to reduce the impact of large-scale compound disasters and to protect people's lives and properties of city-region in Taiwan. We first redefine the concept of cross-border cooperation and governance. Then we review the present cross-border cooperative strategies to figure out the issues we are facing. Finally, we suggest that at different levels of government should build up an adaptive mechanism of network-integration of cross-border cooperation by a triple-layer cooperative framework in both vertical and horizontal aspects to help the central and local governments to work together effectively as a response to city-region's large-scale compound disaster.