Legal Opportunities for Public Participation in Forest Management in the Republic of Korea

Park, Mi Sun; Lee, Hyowon

doi:10.3390/su8040369

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“…The reevaluation included not only restoring community forests and traditional community forestry, but also installing political alternatives and paying subsidies to support the restoration. All three countries recently established laws and policies to promote public participation in forestry and the restoration of community forests [38,48,60]. With this political support, community forestry traditions have been implemented and have helped address forest overexploitation in China, forest underutilization in Japan, and deforestation in South Korea [9,54].…”

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“…Since 1951, a local participatory group, Sallimgye (private forest cooperative), has been established under the government's policies and laws [59]. The structure and activity of Sallimgye were similar to those of the traditional Songgye in ancient Korea [60]. The group consisted of local villagers living near a target reforestation site, who primarily provided labor to carry out government reforestation activities.…”

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The Contribution of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Practices to Forest Management: The Case of Northeast Asia

Kim

Guanlin

Son

2017

Forests

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This study aims to introduce the potential applicability of traditional ecological knowledge and community forestry in Northeast Asia, including China, Japan, and South Korea. In ancient Northeast Asia, forest policies and practices were based on Fengshui (an old Chinese concept regarding the flow of vital forces), with which forests were managed under community forestry. However, these traditional systems diminished in the twentieth century owing to the decline of traditional livelihood systems and extreme deforestation. Recently, legacies from traditional ecological knowledge and community forestry have been revisited and incorporated into forest policies, laws, and management practices because of growing needs for sustainable forest use in China, Japan, and Korea. This reevaluation of traditional ecological knowledge and community forestry has provided empirical data to help improve forestry systems. Although traditional ecological knowledge and community forestry in Northeast Asia have been scarcely theorized, they play a significant role in modifying forest management practices in the face of socioeconomic changes.

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The Contribution of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Practices to Forest Management: The Case of Northeast Asia

Kim

Guanlin

Son

2017

Forests

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“…Say et al [29] shed light on the basic principles related to the process of public participation and how effective participation can be attained in SEA (Strategic Environmental Assessment) practices at the policy, plan, and program levels. Park et al [30] aimed to investigate the legal opportunities of public participation in managing state forests in the case of the Republic of Korea (ROK), which provide legal insights on promoting public participation in managing state forests. Xi [31] analyzed the problems of public participation in environmental protection and put forward three ways to optimize the system of public participation in environmental protection.…”

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Research on the Construction of a Natural Hazard Emergency Relief Alliance Based on the Public Participation Degree

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At present, in light of new situations and the new task of natural hazard response, effective public participation in emergency relief has become an urgent task that can reduce economic losses and casualties. The purpose of this paper is to construct a natural hazard emergency relief alliance and analyze the mechanisms and dynamics of public participation. In this study, methods based on a multi-agent system were adopted, and we used different participants as heterogeneous agents with different attitudes and resources. Using four different processes, namely participation proposals, negotiation interval, negotiation decision-making function, and participation strategy, we comprehensively construct an emergency relief alliance for natural hazards. In addition, the dynamic public interaction process is analyzed and a construction algorithm is given. The experimental results show that the proposed method has better performance in alliance formation efficiency, negotiation efficiency, and agent utility. The research results illustrate that the public’s attitudes and resources influence the construction of emergency relief alliances; a greater degree of public participation contributes to a more efficient alliance formation. The findings of this study contribute to the promotion of public cooperation and improvement in the efficiency of natural hazard emergency relief.

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“…Environmental laws like the Law of Urban Planning were amended to incorporate collaborative and participatory decision-making in environmental and green regional development [82]. In 2003, President Roh established regulations including participatory and bottom-up planning for effective river basin management [83].…”

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Challenges and Achievements beyond Decision-Making Power of Planners: How Are Decisions on Planning for Stream Restoration Made in South Korea?

Hong

2020

Water

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This research covers existing planning theory and possible ways to improve the decision-making process in Korean stream restoration. First, it attempts to recognize what extent the Korean stream restoration case follows Western environmental decision-making models. Additionally, key concepts and factors of environmental decision-making are discussed to build a foundation of planning theory. This research reveals key works in the broad and changing field of stream restoration that provides the foundation for understanding Korean water resource planning. To recognize the challenges and achievements of this planning, this paper first notes that, while technical perspectives of the engineering field have historically dominated stream restoration, current thinking recognizes the much greater complexity of stream restoration requires more than only engineering perspectives. After reviewing the literature in related areas, this research considers what the planning field has to offer. In the conclusion, this author argues that the application of citizen-oriented decision-making approaches could lead to better water resource management. Admittedly, this may still be hindered by political uncertainty and power conflicts caused by science-dominant environmental planning.

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Legal Opportunities for Public Participation in Forest Management in the Republic of Korea

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

The Contribution of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Practices to Forest Management: The Case of Northeast Asia

The Contribution of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Practices to Forest Management: The Case of Northeast Asia

Research on the Construction of a Natural Hazard Emergency Relief Alliance Based on the Public Participation Degree

Challenges and Achievements beyond Decision-Making Power of Planners: How Are Decisions on Planning for Stream Restoration Made in South Korea?

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