지속가능한 국토관리를 위한 자연훼손 저감방안 연구

A Study on the Tools for Reducing Environmental Degradation by Development toward Sustainable Land Management

&nbsp;&nbsp;Therefore, this study has been carried out for the &quot;regular&quot; natural environment within development sites such as New Towns, instead of protected areas. To be specific, the study aims to suggest institutional frameworks to reduce degradation of the natural environment within development sites, such as green areas, hill areas, streams and landscapes. Under well-planned development, these sites may remain connected with the surrounding ecosystem even after the development.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The scope of this study is plan establishment and environmental performance assessment, and does not include design, construction or post managerial process during which environmental degradation still occurs.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The study identifies five types of environmental degradation that was dealt with in previous studies and under relevant legal institutions. Then, it comes up with the operational definition of environmental degradation based on the comparison of the concepts and scopes of environmental degradation covered in previous studies and relevant institutions local and abroad. Based on the definition, the study limits the scope of the research to green areas, river and stream, topography and ecosystem.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Based on these analyses and examinations, the study suggests the causes of environmental degradation as follows: development plans ignoring the problem of environmental degradation; incomplete environmental performance assessment; lack of consideration of the area-wide green axis system, and of legal institutions for securing protected areas under consideration; plan establishment focused on distribution of facilities for human convenience rather than consideration for the nature; differing awareness of development and conservation among people; plans based on excessive confidence in science and technology; and development behavior using a loophole in the law.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The major strategies the study suggests are as follows, and they may be promoted in actual situations: strengthening the environmental performance of spatial planning; drawing out environmental plans to be utilized as a guideline for the development strengthening the function of environmental performance assessment; preparation of institutional tools that will make it possible to review the substantial alternatives devised to prevent environmental degradation of a place followed by the developments at the plan establishment stage; preparation of institutions allowing for ecosystem service provision; and basic data construction. For each individual strategy, the study suggests detailed plans for implementing them.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Lastly, the study suggests the following as issues for follow-up researches: drawing up the contents of environmental plans, and exploring methods to apply them to actual situations; preparing of the guidelines for environment map production; basic study for establishing &quot;nature consideration regulations&quot;, and promotion of pilot projects; defining the ecosystem service and methods for the application; methods for improving the utilization of area-wide green axes, and addressing conflicts arising surrounding them; concrete measures for unifying the system for environmental impact assessment; complementing the plan for the infrastructure in green areas; and linkage of spatial development planningand environmental planning.