Analysis of Environmental and Socio-Economic Effects on the Adjustment of National Parks

Abstract

As ten years have passed since national parks were adjusted and released inceptively, it is the time for evaluating the effectiveness of the national park policy and improving it on the basis of the evaluation result. In this study, the method of appraising the environmental and socio-economical ripple effect on the implementation of national park regulation were provided, based on the institutional consideration, the environment analysis, the survey of residents consciousness, the statistical analysis and so on. It is applied to target sites where were released from national parks, and the policy direction was suggested for sustainable use and management of national parks.National parks, that exhibit various characteristics depending on geographical and local conditions, were categorized through the statistical approach. Released sites from Seoraksan National park, where was categorized as the core national park for sustainable use and management, were evaluated environmentally based on the time-series analysis of environmental thematic maps and socio-economically based on the survey on residents perceptions. As a result of this study, the

Recognition Difference of Local Residents and National Park Managers on National Park Adjustment: A Case of 37 Cancellation Areas

“…Although twenty years have passed since Korean national parks initially started the adjustment of national parks that the studies investigated three areas such as global trend on protected area management including national parks (Ministry of Environment 2006;Heo and Park 2007), institutional improvement plan for national park's resource conservation and conflict resolution efforts (Kim et al 2005;Ministry of Environment 2008;Yoo et al 2013), and social, economic, and environmental impacts on the adjustment of national parks (Hong et al 2013). However, these studies are limited to examining recognition differences and adjustment effects between stakeholders on the adjustment of national parks.…”