Sustainable Development Goals
Abstract/Objectives
This study analyzes the Trust Laws of the UK, the United States, and Japan, and compares them with the Trust Law of Taiwan to draw differences from them. It focuses on five major aspects: taxation system, regulatory and organization system, legal conflicts, regional administration, and other issues. This study uses the Contingent Ranking Method(CR) to design an expert survey, and distribute them to the three major groups of legal proficients, resource management proficients, and environmental trust-executing proficients to rank and measure their willingness for each plan. Retrieved surveys are tested through Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS) in the Nonparametric Statistics to achieve the final result, using this result to research and design the relatively feasible Environmental Trust Law mechanism in Taiwan.
Results/Contributions

This study retrieved 11 surveys, including 3 from legal proficients, 4 from resource management proficients, and 4 from environmental trust-executing proficients, and almost all the proficients believe that Trust Law and Tax Law in Taiwan need to be amended to increase the willingness of the public to dedicate in environmental trusts. Among them, the taxation system and the regulatory and organization system are the most in need of amendment and adjustment. The amendment of the law should be accelerated to achieve the core values of trust with "mutual trust" as its essence.

 

This study suggests that when using such Contingent Ranking Method (CVM) or Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) to evaluate environmental laws or policies, the similarities and differences of characteristics between interdisciplinarity should be taken into consideration. Between environmental economics, which simplifies the problem and gets results, and environmental law and environmental policy, which require rigorous design and discussion to come up with feasible solutions, in addition to using quantitative methods to present the most intuitive results with data, we should get more qualitative suggestions from proficients and refer to them in order to design questionnaires and results that can achieve both benefits and feasibility. This study also looks forward to more research using interdisciplinary methods in the future, so as to more accurately design a complete set of mechanisms to achieve the greatest benefits for the general public.

Keywords
Environmental TrustCharitable TrustTrust LawContingent Ranking MethodMechanism Design