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A Study on the Relationship between the Number of Visitors and Degradation of Natural Resources in Bukhansan National Park (북한산국립공원의 탐방객 수와 훼손의 상관관계 연구)

  • Kang, Da-In;Sung, Hyun-Chan
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.81-89
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    • 2016
  • This study aims to understand the relationship between visitors and the degradation of natural resources in Bukhansan national park. We analyzed the trend of the number of visitors, destruction of natural resources and decrease of biodiversity per year. We further compared three types of trails, heavily-used trails and rarely-used trails and a trail with limited access, regarding the degree of destruction in the National Park through a field survey. Our result showed that increasing number of visitors had direct and indirect impact on the destruction of natural resources in the National Park. The direct impact came from visitors' excessive use of trails. Naturally, increasing number of visitors caused an immoderate use of natural resources. Physical degradation such as exposure of tree root, poor drainage of trails, trail erosion was more severe than other types of trails. Decreasing biodiversity or mild disturbance around trails is the indirect impact such as broken bough, worn-bark in rarely-used trails. Destruction scale greatly increased as the number of visitors increased. Real-named reservation system helped to prevent trails from degradation. Our result calls for the need of controlling the number of visitors to Bukhansan National Park to mitigate the degradation. We recommend dispersing visitors from the heavily-used trails to other trails and implementing real-named reservation system in the rarely-used trails for the effective management of the national park.

Assessment on Ecological Characteristics of Vegetation in the Trail of Area Adjacent to GeumJeong Mountain Fortress (금정산성 등산로 주변 식생의 생태적 특성 평가)

  • Nam, Jung-Chil;Seo, Jung-Bum;Jo, Kuk-Hee;Kim, Seok-Kyu
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.527-537
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    • 2010
  • This study are Geumjung mountain fortress of the Busan Metropolitan City in the north gate of the East gate around the trail to identify the vegetation structure importance value, dominance, species diversity, similarity index analysis. Results of the study, plot on the western slopes elevation 423-636m, slopes of $15{\sim}20^{\circ}$ slope areas, Pinus densiflora, Pinus thunbergii, Quercus acutissima, Pinus thunbergii, Pinus rigida, Carpinus coreana, Quercus mongolica are fulfilling a community. Trees layer a height 8~12m, coverage 40~70%, sub-trees layer the height 3~7m, coverage 10~80%, shrubs layer the height 0.8~1.5m, coverage 20-30%, herb layer the height 0.1~0.5m, coverage 5-10% were in the range of plot in the east slope elevation 452-647m, slopes in the slope of $5-30^{\circ}$ and Pinus rigida, Pinus thunbergii, Pinus densiflora, Quercus mongolica, Quercus dentata, Carpinus coreana is fulfilling a community. The trees layer height 8~13m, coverage 0~70%, sub-trees layer the height 2~6m, coverage 0~80%, shrubs layer the height 0.8~1.5m, coverage 20-40%, herb layer the height 0.1-0.5m, coverage 5-40% were in the range. The survey showed to be in relatively good vegetation, but in some areas of Pinus rigida, Quercus acutissima, as was predicted in succession, the shrub layer in the plot of some dominated vine plants and vegetation management will be needed for this purpose respectively.

The Analysis of Landscape Ecological Effect of Forest by Trail-Building (등산로 개설에 의한 산림의 경관생태학적 영향 분석)

  • Lee, Woo-Sung;Park, Kyung-Hun;Kim, Dong-Pil
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.128-137
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of hiking trails on forest landscape's fragmentation, based on which also to assess the landscape-ecology-based integrity by small drainage area by selecting Bukhansan National Park as a survey target. The results of effect analysis are as follow; size of forest patch decreased; the density of patch and edge increased; patch shape became complicated; the dimensions of core area noticeably decreased and proximity degree between patch increased after trail-building. In addotion, the assessment results of overall landscape ecology-based integrity by small drainage basin showed that the Bukhansan catchment area was highest making 3.7 point, while Gugi catchment area was rated the lowest making 1.6 point. Putting the above results together, it is necessary to prohibit the opening up of unnecessary trails and to make room for ecological restoration of damaged and disturbance area to their original state as nature goes for landscape-ecology-based conservation and management of forests.

Invasive alien plant Characteristics and Management Measures in Mt. Inwang, Seoul (서울 인왕산의 침입외래식물 특성 및 관리방안)

  • Cha, Doo-Won;Ban, Su-Hong;Oh, Choong-Hyeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.89-96
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    • 2019
  • This study was carried out for management of the invasive alien plants in Mt. Inwang located in central Seoul. The invasive alien plants are 11 families, 34 genera, 30 taxa, and they are 10.8% of the total vascular plants(314 taxa). The ecosystem disturbed plants designated by the Korea environment ministry are 6 taxa : Rumex acetosella, Lactuca scariola, Ambrosia trifida var. trifida, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Aster pilosus and Eupatorium rugosum. In the life-form, herbaceous perennials are 13 taxa(35.3%). In the continent of origin, the species from America are 20 taxa(58.8%). In the introduction time, the species of third period are 14 taxa(41.2%). In the diffusion grade, 5 grade species are 14 taxa(41.2%) and they are wide spread species. Mt. Inwang was designated as ecological scenery conservation area of Seoul in 2007. But Mt. Inwang is in high danger by the spread of invasive alien plants and ecosystem disturbed plants, due to artificial factors such as development pressure and the occurrence of byway trail. Therefore, Mt. Inwang needs systematic management of invasive alien plants and monitoring of long-term changes.

Aspects of Regulatory and Legal Implications on evoting

  • Kosmopoulos, Athanassios
    • 한국디지털정책학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.311-331
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    • 2004
  • This paper addresses the democracy-oriented regulatory and legal requirements that e-democracy impacts. It demonstrates that the structure of the political system also plays a significant role in the decision to develop an e-voting application. The short term perspective of the questions put before the electorate obliterate the long term perspective in which many policy problems have to be seen. A well-designed e-voting system should produce an audit trail that is even stronger than that of conventional systems (including paper-based systems). Remote Internet voting systems pose significant risk to the integrity of the voting process, and should not be fielded for use in public elections until substantial technical and social science issues are addressed. Conclusively the paper focuses on the specific attributes an electronic voting (polling place) system should respect and ensure such as transparency, verifiability, accountability, security and accuracy in relation to the constitutional requirements such as General, Free. Equal, Secret, Direct and Democratic.

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Effects of Communication Strategies for Managing Depreciative Behavior in Carlsbad Caverns National Park (국립공원내의 환경오염행위 관리를 위한 Communication정책의 효 과 -미국 Carlsbad Caverns 국립공원의 사례를 중심으로-)

  • ;James H. Gramann
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.32-40
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    • 1991
  • Damage to natural resources from inappropriate visitor behavior is a problem faced by National Park management. Based on the data gathered by personal interview and mail questionnaire, this study examines the effects of communication strategies to reduce depreciative behavior in Carlsbad Caverns National Park. One-quarter of Carlsbad Caverns visitors indicates that they have noticed damage to cave formation during their tour. Almost 38% of visitors say that they have witnessed someone touch a formation inside the Caverns. This is a relatively high percentage compared with other depreciative behavior research to refrain from "tattling" on fellow visitors. Two-thirds of the respondents recalls touching formation replicas before entering the Cavern, while almost all visitors (97.9%) say that they have heard the ranger's talk about not touching formation or leaving the trail. Visitors feel that the ranger's talk is more effective in reducing depreciative behavior than the formation replicas, although at least three-fourths of all respondents believes both techniques are effective.

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Ecological Case Study of Eco-bridges in Korea: State and Problem (야생동물 생태학적 사례연구를 통해서 본 교량형 생태통로의 현황 및 문제점)

  • Choi, Byung-Jin;Jo, Yeong-Seok;Jeong, Jong-Chul;Kim, Joo-Pill
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.285-300
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to ascertain the ecological state and problems of eco-bridges on Korean roads. The study was conducted from March to April 2007 by checking ecological factors and wildlife around the eco-bridges and habitats. 8 representative eco-bridges were selected by their bridge shape and condition of location. After field survey, we analyzed ideal trails for wildlife using field data, digital topology maps, satellite images, and land use map. In addition to trail analysis, we identified the propriety of the eco-bridges through Population Viability Analysis. Because of unsuitable location and management, we found that most of the bridges are not proper for wildlife dispersal. Moreover, in some habitats, we could expect that some local populations might be extinct without appropriate treatments.

Efficient Scheduling for Salesperson Monitoring System (영업사원 관제시스템의 효율적인 경로 스케줄링)

  • Kim, Seung;Min, Yeong-Bin;Lee, Woo-Key;Bae, Hye-Rim
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.382-389
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    • 2011
  • Salesperson Monitoring System (SMS) is geographic based information system that supports business auditing, sales area coordinating and customer management for each salesperson. Conventional SMSs focus mainly on the monitoring or logging functions, i.e., a salesperson locating or moving trail tracking. However, the schedules have been planned by human planner, and they have rarely been managed with a software system like SMS. In this paper, a mixed integer programming model for a salesperson routing schedule is provided. Then, 2-phase Genetic Algorithm (GA) is proposed to make salesperson routing schedule. Experimental results show a validity of the proposed method.

UAV Path Creation Tool for Wildfire Reconnaissance in CPS Environment (CPS환경에서 산불 정찰을 위한 무인기 비행경로 생성 도구)

  • Ji-Won Jeong;Chang-Hui Bae;EuTeum Choi;SeongJin Lee
    • IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.327-333
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    • 2023
  • Existing studies on the UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)-based CPS (Cyber Physical System) environment lack forest fire monitoring and forest fire reconnaissance using real-world UAVs. So, it is necessary to monitor forest fires early through CPS based on real-world UAVs with high reliability and resource management efficiency. In this paper presents an MFG (Misstion File Generater) that automatically generates a flight path of an UAV for forest fire monitoring in a CPS environment. MFG generates flight paths based on a hiking trail with a high fire probability due to a true story of an entrant. We have confirmed that the flight path generated by MFG can be applied to the UAV. Also, we have verified that the UAV flies according to the flight path generated by MFG in simulation, with a negligible error rate.

Maintaining the Authenticity of Electronic Records in the Electronic Records Management Systems (전자기록의 진본성 유지를 위한 전략)

  • Suh, Hye-Ran;Seo, Eun-Gyoung;Lee, So-Yeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.241-261
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    • 2003
  • The electronic records management systems must create and maintain reliable and authentic records because such records can be easily duplicated, manipulated, altered, and revised. The goal of this study is to propose the strategies for maintainning authenticity of electronic records and to produce some baselines for developing the strategies for maintaining authenticity of electronic records and to produce some baselines for developing the trusted record management sytems. Therefore, the study is to identify and define the concept of an electronic record and the nature of authenticity; to estabilish the principles for ensuring the long-term preservation of authentic electronic records; to suggest the methods for describing electronic records in order to maintain audit trail; to suggest the methods for describing electronic records in order to maintain audit ; to propose the mechanisms for maintaining reliable and authentic electronic records; to analyse the Korean standards related to electronic document management systems; and to discuss future challenges for maintaining the authenticity.