• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.363-376
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• 2010

Vegetative communities of created wetlands often display lower species richness, less cover, higher occurrence of non-native or invasive species, and fewer obligate wetlands species than those in natural wetlands, thus failing to meet basic success criteria for wetland mitigation. This study examined the effects of two design elements, disking-induced microtopography and hydrologic regime, on the first year vegetation development pattern of a mitigation wetland newly created in the Virginia piedmont. Elevation and species cover were measured along replicate multiscale circular transects in two adjacent wetland sites that are different in their hydrologic regime. Two microtopographic indices, tortuosity (T) and limiting elevation difference (LD), were calculated from the elevation measurements. Both indices were higher in disked plots than non-disked plots, showing the effect of disking on microtopography. Out of forty-one vegetation taxa observed in the wetland, 29 taxa were naturally colonized and 12 taxa were seeded. All plots except one non-disked plot were dominated by wetland vegetation. Species richness and diversity were higher in disked than in non-disked plots. Vegetation community development seemed also influenced significantly by hydrologic regime of the site. The effect of microtopography on species richness and diversity was more pronounced in a relatively dry site compared to a wet site. In addition, percent cover, species richness and diversity of vegetation were positively correlated with microtopographic indices such as T and LD. Two design elements, microtopography and hydrologic regime, should be considered and incorporated in wetland creation to enhance plant community development.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.93-114
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• 2002

Legal regimes of major countries actively involved in wetland programs including USA, Japan, Germany, Netherlands, and Denmark, show that these leading nations have developed their own legal regimes and policies for the conservation and restoration of wetlands since early 1990s. The main feature of their position is to preserve, create and restore wetlands, including tidal flats. However, this approach, so called 'mitigation' policy, is thus far, not a fully established policy but an evolving one. For Korea, there are only a few laws and policies which hint at the importance of creating coastal wetlands as a conservation measure, however, most of those systems only exist as vague provisions which lack any tangible and compulsory implementing procedures and technical guidelines. It seems that it is necessary to strengthen the legal measures for conserving coastal wetlands in Korea including specifying economic assessment methods and funding sources for the creation, restoration and rehabilitation of tidal flats to firmly establish a national wetland mitigation policy.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.114-118
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• 1998

Present status of Japanese wetland ecosystems and several trials towards rehabilitation and restoration of them are reviewed. Most of wetlands are altered to paddy fields and city areas, and natural wet lowland including tideland is the most endangered nature in Japan. Not only the preservation of natural wetlands but also the conservation of secondary nature of paddy field and waterways in traditional rural areas and restoration of original nature in city areas became the most concerned theme for nature conservation according to the national strategy for the biodiversity conservation. Not only the technological development based on the conservation ecology, but also the development of mitigation banking system are needed in Japan.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.151-156
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• 2013

Several soil properties were studied from three young created mitigation wetlands (<10 years old), which were hydrologically comparable in the Piedmont region of Virginia. The properties included soil organic matter (SOM), soil organic carbon (SOC), pH, gravimetric soil moisture, and bulk density ($D_b$). No significant differences were found in the soil properties between the wetlands, except SOM and SOC. SOM and SOC indicated a slight increase with wetland age; the increase was more evident with SOC. Only about a half of SOC variability found in the wetlands was explained by SOM ($R^2$ = 0.499, p < 0.05). The majority of the ratios of SOM to SOC for these silt-loam soils ranged from 2.0 to 3.5, which was higher than the 1.724 Van Bemmelen factor, commonly applied for the conversion of SOM into SOC in estimating the carbon storage or accumulation capacity of wetlands. The results may caution the use of the conversion factor, which may lead to an overestimation of carbon sequestration potentials of newly created wetlands. SOC, but not SOM, was also correlated to $D_b$, which indicates soil compaction typical of most created wetlands that might limit vegetation growth and biomass production, eventually affecting carbon accumulation in the created wetlands.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.545-555
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• 2003

It is widely known that compare to many other countries, the U.S.A. has a strong framework for efficient implementation of mitigation policy to protect wetlands. As indicated in many strong mitigation initiatives, mitigation policy primary requires avoidance rule for wetland damage and if a developer inevitability damages wetlands, the development should be minimize, and as a last resort, the policy impose legal duty that a developer should compensate wetland corresponding to the damaged wetlands. However, the legal system fur Korea's mitigation system does not provide any legal duty for the compensatory mitigation, although the possibility of creation of tidal flat is casually expressed in several Korean legal systems. Therefore, without any strong and enforceable legal system, Korean mitigation system cannot efficiently protect Korea's vast and productive wetlands. To introduce mitigation policy similar to the U.S.A. in Korea, we suggest that there (a) should be a strongly policy which regulate legal duty for the compensatory mitigation, (b) should be an improve management system for actively corresponding to special knowledge relating to environment, and lastly, (c) should be a system which consider a class action introduced in environmental regime for a long term protection of tidal wetlands for future generation.

• 한국방재학회 논문집
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.127-134
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 통상 농경지 및 택지로 이용하고 있는 폐천의 경제적 가치에 대해 연구하였다. 즉, 폐천을 농경지로 활용하였을 경우와 습지나 위락단지로 활용하였을 경우에 대한 경제적 가치를 평가 비교하고자 하였다. 연구 대상유역은 한강의 제1지류인 곡릉천의 하류를 선정하였다. 농경지로 활용하였을 경우는 농림통계연보(2000)를 이용하여 그 가치를 산정하였고, 자연습지나 위락단지로 활용하였을 경우에 대해서는 설문조사를 통하여 그 가치를 평가하였다. 즉, 습지나 위락단지의 레크리에이션 가치는 설문조사 결과를 여행자비용법에 의해서 산정하였고, 심미적 가치는 선진국의 선례를 토대로 설문조사를 작성한 후 그 결과를 이용하여 가치를 평가하였다. 분석 결과 폐천을 농경지로 활용하였을 경우, 연간균등편익은 7.05 백만원으로 산정되었고, 습지와 레크리에이션 목적으로 활용하였을 경우에 대해서는 각각의 연간균등편익이 1931.4 백만원과 6284.86 백만원으로 산정되었다. 또한, 심미적 가치는 1년에 14만원으로 산정되었다. 따라서 폐천부지를 농경지로 활용할 경우 보다 습지나 위락시설로 활용할 경우가 훨씬 더 큰 가치를 보이고 있다.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.10-20
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• 2024

습지의 보전 및 복원은 지속 가능한 인간 사회와 환경을 위한 필수적 과제로, 생물다양성 유지, 자연재해 저감, 기후 변화 완화 등 중요한 혜택을 제공한다. 본 연구는 습지 복원 및 조성을 위한 다양한 이해관계자들 간의 전략적 상호작용과 이익을 게임 이론을 통해 분석하고, 정책 결정에 중요한 근거를 제공하고자 한다. 이 연구에서는 대도시, 중소도시, 소도시의 세 가지 도시 유형에 대해 가상의 상황을 설정하고, 정부, 개발회사, 환경단체, 지역 주민 등의 이해관계자를 정의하였다. 각 이해관계자별 전략적 선택 사항을 도출하고, 습지생태 전문가들의 논의를 통해 보수행렬을 설정하였다. 이후 비협력적 게임 이론을 적용하여 내쉬 균형과 파레토 효율성을 분석하였다. 대도시에서는 '습지 보존'과 '친환경 개발', 중소도시에서는 다양한 전략들, 그리고 소도시에서는 '친환경 개발'이 이해당사자 모두에게 이득이 되는 해결책으로 나타났다. 파레토 효율성 분석 결과, 각 도시 유형별로 습지 관리와 관련하여 이해당사자들 간의 최적의 해결책이 어떻게 달라질 수 있는지를 보여주었다. 도시 유형별로 습지 보존, 친환경 개발, 습지 복원 사업이 각각 중요하게 부각되었다. 이에 따라 정책 입안자들은 환경 보호와 도시 개발의 조화를 이루는 규제와 인센티브를 마련하고, 지역 사회의 참여를 촉진하는 프로그램을 고려해야 한다. 이해당사자별 역할과 전략을 통해 습지 보존과 지역 경제 발전을 동시에 촉진하는 방안을 모색해야 한다. 전략별 장단점을 이해하고, 이를 바탕으로 보다 효과적인 정책 결정을 내리는 것이 중요하다.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.11-22
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• 2011

This study was established to build and suggest the Ecological Performance Standards for replaced wetlands as the mitigation strategies for the construction projects. The request performance and assessment factors and standards were derived by bibliographic review and verified by the field survey for the reference wetlands. And the weights for each factor were derived by AHP(Analytical Hierarchy Process) method. The results are as follows : 1) Assessment factors were induced by in-depth research of many wetland assessment models and benchmarks evaluated ecological functions. This study proposed final 12 assessment factors through ecological specialist and experts interviews added with literature analysis. 2) 10 natural wetlands were selected as Reference Wetlands as the measure to propose assessment factors and assessment criteria. Those reference wetlands are well-conserved inland natural wetlands classified to the one having worthy to conserve (grade "high") according to RAM(Rapid Assessment Method). Reference wetlands chosen by the study are Parksilji, Jeongyangji, Mulkubi, Bawineupkubi, Jilnalneup, Jinchonneup, Doomoso, Haepyung wetland, Whangjeong wetland, and Whapo wetland. The research developed assessment criteria for the performance assessment factors based on several explorations of the reference wetlands. 3) "Requiring performance" of replaced wetlands is defined as "to carry out similar or same ecological functions provided by natural wetlands", in overall. The detailed requiring performances are as follows; ${\bullet}$ to play a role of wildlife habitats ${\bullet}$ to have biological diversity ${\bullet}$ to connect with other ecosystems ${\bullet}$ to provide water environment to perform good ecological functions 4) The assessment factors for required performance are categorized by wildlife habitat function, biological diversity, connectivity of adjacent ecosystem, and water environment. Wildlife habitat category is consisted of wildlife habitat creation, size of replacement wetland, and site suitability. Biological diversity category contains the number of plant species, the number of wildlife species, and number of protected species as the sub-factors. Connectivity of adjacent ecosystem is comprised of wildlife corridor, green network and distance from other ecosystem. Finally, water environment make up with water quality, depth of water body, and shape of waterfront. 5) Finally, every assessment factors were verified and weighted by the AHP methods and the final standards were proposed. The weights of factors of requiring performance suggested as habitat (0.280), connectivity (0.261), diversity (0.260), hydraulic environment (0.199). And those of detailed sub-factors are site suitability (0.118), protected species (0.096), distance to neighbor ecosystem (0.093), habitat creating (0.091), green corridor (0.090) etc.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.39-48
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• 2020

인공습지의 주요한 기능이자 조성된 인공습지의 목적 중 가장 많은 비율을 차지하는 기능은 수질정화 기능이다. 4대강사업 이후 국민들의 수질에 관한 관심과 요구가 증가하였고, 삶의 질 향상으로 인한 수변공간에 대한 활용도가 높아지면서 수질 개선에 대한 필요성은 더욱 증가할 것으로 보인다. 대부분의 인공습지 조성 사업 시 한 가지 목적에만 초점을 맞추는 게 대부분이며, 효과에 관한 연구도 한 가지 기능에 대한 효과를 분석하고 있어 실제 인공습지의 조성의 가치가 저평가 되고 있다. 따라서 인공습지를 조성에 따른 종합적 편익을 산정하기 위해 본 연구에서는 하천변 인공습지 조성에 따른 여러 효과 중 홍수저감 및 수질개선 기능에 대한 효과를 분석하고 이에 따른 편익을 산정하였다. 즉, 하천변에 가상의 인공습지를 설계 및 조성하여, 인공습지 조성 전·후의 비교를 통하여 홍수저감과 수질개선 효과를 산출하였고 이에 따른 편익을 각각 산정하였다.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.142-163
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• 2009

Taebaek city is located in the mountainous plateau area therefore the major industry was coal industry. According to dramatically declining of the major industry, Taebaek city is need to alternative industry which associated with considering the geographical characteristics of natural tourism resources for increasing the local economy. On the basis of these reasons, this study can be suggested ecological planning and mitigation of deterioration technique about the these study site. That is the reserved area for mountainous experience theme park. As the results of environmental ecology assessment are following as; The natural ecosystem areas, multi-layer structure forest such as forest of Pinus densiflora, forest of Quercus mongolica and deciduous forest have a high value of nature, diversity and potential. In addition, wild bird habitats were important area as a inhabitation, breeding, feeding and hiding. Therefore, on these areas should be preserved. Also, it needs to conserve on there such as more than three types of wild bird inhabitate areas, the fringe of high biological diversity, the wetland that have got good vegetation condition and the function of amphibia, reptiles crossing. In addition, inhabitation, the waterway of wetland form that have got wide waterside width needs to conserve. In conclusion, on the basis of analysis results such as conditions of plan, environment, ecological assessments, survey informations are able to suggest the connectivity of the axis of forest and management plan. Moreover, in the part of forest restoration plan, we suggest the plan of transplant for a compensation of damaged forest by land use.