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ArticleWould ensuring property right contribute to managing forest protected areas? – Loss compensation in South Korea
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.About 70 percent of Korea's land is mountainous, and by allowing private ownership, private forests account for 70 percent of the total the mountainous area. Under these circumstances, the designation of private forest reserves based on the Forest Protection Act contributes to protecting the ecosystem from deforestation. However, when forest protected areas are designated, property rights restrictions, such as the prohibition of harvesting trees, could arise, causing disputes between individuals and the government. One of the means to adjust such conflicts and pursue social equity is the loss compensation system. However, while analyzing the Forest Protection La w by applying forest management approaches as well as legal concepts of the constitution and administrative law, we found that loss compensations are largely impractical due to the structural specificity of the loss compensation system, which leads to the malfunction of forest governance. It is reported that the insufficient protection of property rights is not only a failure to resolve the conflict over the designation of forest protected areas but also a major stumbling block to expanding the zones. The conflict is expected to escalate in the future as the civic awareness of property rights on private forests is on the rise. This research identifies the causes of loss compensation impossibility by focusing on the structural specificity of the loss compensation regulations under the Forest Protection Act. The paper also presents alternatives to the limitations. These findings give us an insight that the guarantee of private property rights can contribute to strengthening integrated land use plans and improving forest governance through the management and expansion of protected areas. Keywords: Governance, Conflict, Policies, Sustainable Forest management, Deforestation and forest degradation ID: 3477872 -
ArticleImpacts of the national forest rehabilitation plan and human-induced environmental changes on the carbon and nitrogen balances of the South Korean forests
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.The carbon (C) balance is a key to the climate regulation role of forests, and the nitrogen (N) balance affects forest productivity, ground and surface water quality, and the emission of N2O. Humans have impacted the C and N balances, but quantification of the responses of forests to human activities is limited. This study aimed to quantify the impacts of the long-term national forest rehabilitation plan and the contribution of the increase in air temperature, CO2 concentration, and N deposition on the C and N balance of the South Korean forests during 1973–2020 by using a biogeochemical model. The C and N balance increased from 0.20 to 4.30 Mg C ha–1 year–1 and from 0.20 to 17.4 kg N ha-1 year-1, respectively. This led to the whole South Korean forests to newly store 825 Tg C and 3.04 Tg N after the national forest rehabilitation plan. The increase in air temperature, CO2 concentration, and N deposition contributed –11.5, 17.4, and 177 Tg C for the newly stored C stock, respectively, and –25.4, 8.90, and 1,807 Mg N for the newly stored N stock, respectively. This study would provide references on the benefits of forest rehabilitation for the C and N balance and for future forest rehabilitation efforts. Moreover, our findings improve the understanding of the impacts of human activities on the C and N balance. Keywords: Carbon, Nitrogen, South Korean forests, Climate change, Human impacts ID: 3622951 -
ArticleAnalysis of the evolution of deforestation in the State of Acre, in the Acre riverbasin, in buffer and permanent protected areas, from 1997 to 2017
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.The goal of this article is to quantify the area deforested up to 2017 and the evolution of deforestation over the last 20 years (1997-2017) in the state of Acre, with a closer look atthe categories oftheAcre River basin, alluvial forests buffer and legally protected riparianforests (APP) along the Acre River as well as the territorial categories of public areas and private or unincorporated areas. The Acre River Basin has great socioeconomic and environmentalrelevance for the state of Acre, concentrating 66.6% of the state's total population. It is connected by road with the Pacific, and contains 49 family farm settlement projects and has 36% of its area in protected areas. The results of the comparisons between the percentages of deforested areas and the evolution of deforestation in these categories shows that the APP and buffer of alluvial forests had the highest percentage of deforestedareas, with 48% and 45%, respectively. The evolution of deforestation in these areas nearthe Acre River also shows that it acted as a vector of deforestation, with private or unincorporated areas as the main drivers. Smallholder farmers in settlement projects had a deforestation pattern that increased with distance from the river, while the traditional populations of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve and the indigenous populations of the Acre River Headland Indigenous Land had a pattern of greater deforestation closest to the river. Keywords: Amazon, Public and Private Areas, Riparian Forests, Vector of Deforstatiton. ID: 3622253
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