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Introduction

The Graduate Institute of Landscape Architecture and Recreation Management, formally the Graduate Institute of Rural Planning and Landscaping was established after the closing of the Department of Rural Planning in the restructuring of College of Management in 2005.

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Goals and Characteristics

Landscape architecture and recreation management are the two major teaching and research directions for this institute. The courses of landscape architecture offered by this institute are mainly for training students with the capability of integrating the natural and human-cultural landscape resources to create the superior living environment, providing the smooth and enjoyable recreational spaces for tourists forincubatingstudents into superior specialist in landscape planning and design. Courses of recreation management that offered are to research the recreational and leisure behaviors and activities of the tourist and to understand the developmental trends of leisure and recreation industry to cultivate students to become the superior specialists in recreation marketing and management.The educational objective of this institute is toincubate students to become the superior specialists in landscape planning and design or recreation marketing and management.

Faculty and Specialty

Currently, there are 12 doctorial faculty members including full-time and adjunct ones. In which, there are 6 Professors, 2 Associate Professor, 4 Assistant Professors. Besides, a total of 5 specialized and experienced adjunct professors are hired to assist the teaching assignment.

Image	Name	Title(s)	Education / Specialty	Contact
	kai-An Lo	Associate Professor / Chairman (intra-school joint appointment)	• Ph.D., Forest Institute,National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan • Forest Policy, Forest Economics, Ecotourism, Leisure and Recreation	886-8-7703202 ext 7145
	Guan-Guay Mao	Professor	•Ph. D., Department of Land Economics, National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan • Land laws and regulations, Urban planning, Laws and regulations of rural planning, Economics, Rural planning, Land use planning	886-8-7703202 ext 6265,6501
	April Hueimin Lu	Professor / Director, Historical Buildings Research Center	• Ph.D., Department of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. • Architecture design, Environment planning and design, Leisure agriculture, Cultural resources, community planning, Landscape architecture	886-8-7703202 ext 6266,5460
	Chou-Ping Yang	Assistant Professor	• Ph.D., Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan • Water Environment and Landscape Ecology, Water Pollution Control and River Basin Management, Low Impact Development(LID), Application of GIS to Landscape and Recreation, Hydrodynamic and water quality simulation, Water Resources Engineering, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV)	886-8-7703202 ext 6276
	Ying-Yi Wang	Assistant Professor	• Ph.D., Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan • Applications of artificial intelligence, Reservoir water quality simulation and management, Biological Fluid Mechanics	886-8-7703202 ext 6278
	Wan-Yu Chou	Assistant Professor	• Ph.D., Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, National Taiwan University, Taiwan • Landscape architecture, Placemaking, Landscape health benefits, Landscape perception, Healing environment	886-8-7703202 ext 6503
	Chao-Lin Tuan	Professor / Vice President for Administrative Affairs (intra-school joint appointment)	• Ph.D., Agricultural Extension, National Taiwan University, Taiwan • Leisure Agriculture, Planning and Management of Leisure Farm, Rural Tourism, Leisure Agriculture in Mainland China	886-8-7703202 ext 7808,6550
	Chaur-Tzuhn Chen	Professor (intra-school joint appointment)	• Ph.D., Forest Institute,National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan • Forest Resource Management, Geographic Information System, Resources Remote Sensing,Forest Ecology	886-8-7703202 ext 7147
	Fang-Ming Lin	Professor (intra-school joint appointment)	• Ph.D., Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Architecture and Interior Design, Application Technique of Green Building Materials, Room Acoustics Design	886-8-7703202 ext 7139
	Yi-Lung Yeh	Professor (intra-school joint appointment)	• Ph.D., Agricultural Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan • Environmental Change and Risk Assessment, Disaster Management, Grey Theory, Thunderhead PetraSim, Agricultural Water Management	886-8-7703202 ext 7202
	Fung-Shien Tu	Associate Professor (intra-school joint appointment)	• Ph.D.,Interdisciplinary Studies for Social Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan • History, Humanity Research, The History and Culture of Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan, Pingtung Research	886-8-7703202 ext 7255

Facilities

• Teaching Facilities

Specialized Classroom
Drawing room
Recreation Management and Urban and Rural Development Classroom
Architecture and Landscape Classroom
Geographic Information System Classroom
Landscape and Recreation Environment Planning Classroom
Library

• Teaching Equipments

Hardware:

Personal computers, Servers, e-desk, Interactive screen, Projectors, Digital cameras,
Scanner, Video cameras, Drawing desks, Slide projectors, Video editors, Drawing
copier, Printers, Plotters, Copier, Measuring equipments, Gardening equipments,
Drawing collectors, etc.

Software: Land CAD, AutoCAD, Statistical Package, Globe GPS, GIS, Spatial analysis package, etc.

Job Opportunity

Employment

　1. Government’s position:

　　The landscape planning, sightseeing, and tourism management related divisions in the government agencies.

　2. Industry position:

　　The landscape planning and design companies, sightseeing and tourism planning and consulting companies,

　　engineering planning and consulting companies, recreational development companies, and sightseeing and

　　travelling industries.

　3. Education position:

　　Teachers and faculty members in the schools/universities.

　4. Others: Planner and managerof the third sector or local community development associations.

Advanced study

For advanced studies in Doctorial Program at domestic and international universities in the related fields of landscape, horticulture, tourism and leisure management, forestry 　recreation, urban planning, rural development, city and regional planning, park and recreational resources, agricultural extension, environmental planning, tropical agriculture and other related fields.

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