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Estimating Effects of Climate Change on Ski Industry - The Case of Ski Resorts in South Korea -

스키산업에 기후변화가 미치는 영향 분석 - 한국의 스키장을 사례로 -

  • Kim, Song-Yi (Tourism Industry Research Division, Korea Culture & Tourism Institute) ;
  • Park, Chan (Urban research division, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements) ;
  • Park, Jin-Han (Interdisciplinary Program in Landscape Architecture, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Dong-Kun (Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul National University)
  • 김송이 (한국문화관광연구원 관광산업연구실) ;
  • 박찬 (국토연구원 도시연구본부) ;
  • 박진한 (서울대학교 협동과정 조경학) ;
  • 이동근 (서울대학교 조경지역시스템공학부)
  • Received : 2015.07.30
  • Accepted : 2015.09.30
  • Published : 2015.10.31
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Abstract

Ski industry is sensitive to climate change. Many studies were carried out to learn the impact on climate change to large scale ski resorts around the world and the results are difficult to be applied to small scale ski resorts in general. So, this study targeted small ski resorts composing the ski industry of Korea and forecasted the impact of climate change. As a result, based on the mitigation efforts to minimize climate changes of the future (RCP 4.5), ski industry could be maintained at the same level of today. However, if climate change continues at the current trend (RCP 8.5), ski resorts will face loss of business days. If 100 days are considered as the minimum days to maintain the ski business, among 17 ski resorts in Korea, 3 ski resorts will be driven out of business by 2030s, 12 more ski resorts by 2060s and remaining 2 ski resort by 2090s will end the business. It means that smaller ski resorts has higher chance of facing difficulties in running business just as large scale ski resorts. Therefore, to sustain the ski business, technical and managerial efforts to adapt to the changing environment is needed.

스키산업은 기후변화에 매우 민감한 산업이다. 이에 따라 세계 각국의 많은 연구자들이 기후화로 인한 스키산업의 영향을 연구해왔다. 그러나 이런 대부분의 연구들은 대부분 세계적 규모의 대형 스키장을 대상으로 진행해왔기 때문에 우리나라와 같은 소규모 스키장에 연구 결과를 적용하기는 어려웠다. 이에 국내 스키장 17곳을 대상으로 한국적 여건을 고려한 스키산업의 기후 변화 영향을 분석하고자 하였다. 그 결과, 저감 노력 하에 기후변화 추세가 완화한다면(RCP 4.5) 스키산업은 현재와 같은 수준으로 유지될 수 있을 것으로 전망되었다. 그러 현재의 기후변화 추세가 계속 지속된다면(RCP 8.5) 스키산업의 운영 어려움이 발생될 것으로 전망되었는데, 스키장 운영 최소 영업일 100일을 기준으로 했을 때, 17개 스키장 중 2030년대에 3개, 2060년대에는 12개, 2090년대에는 나머지 2개 스키장의 운영이 불가해 질 것으로 전망되었다. 이는 우리나라의 소규모 스키장 또한 해외의 대형 스키장과 마찬가지로 기후변화로 인한 운영 어려움에 노출될 것임을 뜻하며, 스키장의 운영 지속성을 확보하기 위한기술적, 운영적 차원의 적응 노력이 필요함을 시사한다.

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