dc.description.abstract | In his The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells sounds the alarm that, “...if the planet was brought to the brink of climate catastrophe within the lifetime of a single generation, the responsibility to avoid it belongs with a single generation, too.” It urges that immediate action has to be taken in order to control climate change and following natural impacts.
Since Taiwanese society is developing a more mature democracy, people are more eager to engage in environmental policy. The thesis focuses on Location Aware Sensing System (LASS) through a case study and participant observation. As a leader in the field of participatory sensing system, LASS proposes the idea of “Saving our environment on our own.” It encourages participatory PM2.5 monitoring, helps government analyze potential sources of air pollution, and thus improves air quality. However, while government accepts the idea and increases monitoring stations, the rate of public participation is declining. Main factors can be lack of incentives and feedbacks from the information platform.
In response to the current shortcoming, the study proposes “Joint User Environmental Monitoring System, JEMS” and a marketing idea of “Location-Based Services.” JEMS is a new technical application based on blockchain and smart contracts. Through providing strong incentives, such as receiving profits or informative feedback, people will be willing to help improve environment. The marketing idea of LBS can further increase monitoring stations and their impacts. The thesis also examines the feasibility of JEMS by applying both software and hardware in practice.
The conceptual framework of JEMS corresponds to the ideas of “Social Enterprise” and “Social Innovation” promoted by government in recent years. Through smart contracts and rewards programs, sensing system can not only create benefits to government, companies, and the public, it also sets up an objective monitoring network to supervise and improve environment. | en_US |