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ArticleFuture issues of the forest sector in South Korea from the future workshop
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.Future workshop is useful to suggest new and futuristic ideas to solve complex social problems by involving many stakeholders in the workshop. The objective of this research is to analyze upcoming main issues of the forest sector by applying the future workshop, and to provide the implications of forest policy in South Korea. Through searching the news big data, the study selected four drivers which can affect the forest sector in the future; scientific technology, climate change, economy and population. The group workshop and comprehensive workshop were conducted by predicting the impact of the drivers on the forest sector and discussing the upcoming issues by three stakeholder groups; the general public, experts and workers in forestry and forest industry. For all groups, participants generated common ideas of the issues related to the adoption of new technologies such as AI and robot in the forest management and industry in general, forest cultural services, and remote life style in the mountainous area. However, the workers group chose the issues about the extinction of mountain villages and labour shortage in forestry while the public group chose the issues about climate crisis and the economic inequality of forest cultural services. Consequently, 25 issues were selected in the comprehensive workshop, including a number of issues related to the new role of forest sector such as communication channels, carbon credit, and new position of mountain villages as well as the new technologies. Future forest policies require policy convergence based on the connection amongst various fields including scientific technology, with a variety of viewpoints. Future workshops with multiple stakeholders may help us to discover a blind spot that some experts and literature review failed to notice. Keywords: future workshop, foresight, forest policy, qualitative study ID: 3623036 -
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 -
DocumentMid-term demographic dynamics in stem exclusion stage of beech forest in Ulleungdo Island, South Korea
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.Long-term observation on forest development processes after various disturbances provides the baseline information such as management options including restoration. We examined changes in forest structure and function and patterns of demographic rates (2009-2019) in young beech forest in Ulleungdo Island, South Korea. Change in mean stem density revealed bell-shaped form and growth rate in mean above ground biomass decreased. By predominant stem density and biomass, beech population exhibited strong influence for whole community patterns. Size distributions of tree community revealed influences from maturity and restrained recruitment of trees. Demographic rates showed interesting patterns because recruitment (from 1.3 in to almost 0) and mortality rates (from 0 to 1.8) have abrupt turnover in 2015. Disturbance events from soil deposition originated by heavy rains after 2017 increased stochastic events of tree death (from 0 to 15%). Our results suggest that in stem exclusion stage there were dramatic turnover between stem recruitment and mortality. In addition, disturbance events have influenced to demographic rates by increasing stochastic tree motality. Keywords: Biodiversity conservation ID: 3622286
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