因應全球暖化及氣候變遷對環境造成重大影響，各國紛紛提出建構低碳永續相關推動策略、措施及模式。而永續發展目前已是我國家的重點政策，在國家、區域、城鄉、建物等層面均有豐碩成果，唯獨「社區」層級的議題被著墨不多，然而「社區」卻是地區級永續發展的行動單位也是理念執行的成敗關鍵。爰此、本研究即社區的永續發展為前提，社區的環境資源為研究核心，以探討社區型態之類型，藉以作為未來社區永續發展之參考。
本研究經由文獻回顧整理設計出問項，建構永續社區類型分類評估項目架構，並將社區經濟倂入社會資源。故評估項目架構分為「自然」與「社會」面向，共26個項目。以德爾非法專方式確立項目，以大台南市各行政區為實證範圍再針對每個項目調查收集資料。並以集群分析、多元尺度分析等進行永續社區類型分類。
研究結果顯示，分析結果將永續社區分為六種類型，分別為「已開發區域」、「發展中區域」、「衰退區域」、「新興區域」、「臨山內陸區域」、「臨海區域」。各類型之社區特性有顯著差異，分述如下：
1. 已開發區域其特性為社會資源豐富且產業發達，人口成長平穩，缺乏生態資源。
2. 緩慢成長區域其特性為社會資源與人口成長率上穩定，在生態資源上缺乏，同時居民通勤至其他鄉鎮工作比率高。
3. 衰退區域其特性為在人口成長率呈現負成長，居民多在其他區域工作，產業經濟並不活躍。
4. 新興區域其特性為安平區在社會成長率與自然成長率上極高，表有大量人口入住安平區，另外居民通勤比率高。
5. 偏遠不便區域其特性為產業與能資源能源缺乏，地理與交通因素使居民在原鄉鎮工作比例較高，人口有負成長情形。
6. 生態潛力區域其特性為擁有豐富生態面積與資源，居民多數在地工作，但有人口老化與外移之情形。

In response to global warming and climate change have a significant impact on the environment, the countries have proposed to construct low-carbon sustainable development to promote the strategy, measures and models. Sustainable Development currently has the focus of national policy, to have fruitful results at the national, regional, urban and rural areas, and building level, with the exception of the "community" level the question is scanty, however, the "community" is the regional Wing continued development of the operational units is key to the success of the concept of execution. Therefore, this study sustainable community development as a precondition, the environmental resources of the community to study the core in order to explore the type of community types in order as the future of community sustainable development.
In this study, through literature review finishing design questions to construct the framework of a sustainable community type classification assessment project, and community economic Merger into social resources. Therefore, assessment of project architecture is divided into "natural" and "society" for the 26 projects. Del illegal specifically identifies the project, Greater Tainan Administrative Region for the empirical scope of investigation to collect data for each project. And cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling analysis of sustainable community type classification.
The results show that the analysis of the results of a sustainable community is divided into six types, were "development area", "developing regions", "recession areas", "emerging regions", "Pro Mountain inland area, the waterfront region. " Various types of community characteristics are significantly different, as described below:
(1) the development of the region of its characteristics to social resources and industry-developed, stable population growth, lack of ecological resources.
(2) the slow growth of the region of its characteristics for a stable social resources and population growth rate, lack of ecological resources, the residents commute to other towns in the high rate.
(3)Recession in the region of its characteristics to negative growth in the population growth rate, the residents work in other regions, the industrial economy is not active.
(4) emerging regional characteristics, Anping District, high in the social growth rate and natural growth rate, the table has a large number of people admitted to Anping District, another high ratio of residents commuting.
(5) remote inconvenience to the regional characteristics of the industry and energy resources, energy shortages, geographic and transport factors so that the residents in the higher proportion of the original township work, the case of a negative growth of population.
(6)Ecological potential of the region of its characteristics has a rich ecological area and resources, residents of the majority of the ground, but there is an aging population and the relocation of the situation

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