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Evaluation Indicators for Creation and Management of Urban Forest  

Lee, Dongkun (Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Rural System Engineering, Seoul National University.Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences)
Kim, Daehyun (Dept. of Landscape Architecture Hyecheon College)
Kim, Eunyoung (Graduate School, Seoul National University)
Jeong, Jicheol (Graduate School, Seoul National University)
Oh, Youngchool (Graduate School, Seoul National University)
Joo, Shinha (Division of Environment and Life Science, Seoul Women's University)
Kim, Kyungmok (Urban Forest and Landscape Division, Korea Forest Service)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology / v.11, no.5, 2008 , pp. 104-113 More about this Journal
Abstract
The importance of the green space in urban area has been increasing. There are the increasing needs of creation and sustainable management of urban forest. In order to satisfy the need, it is necessary to set indicators for sustainable urban forest. With this regard, this study is to derive the indicators for evaluation of the urban forest through literature reviews, experts opinion, and field survey. The results of the study, the indicators consist of the ecological healthiness, socio-cultural function, and scenic beauty. The ecological healthiness includes stability and naturality (e.g. area, native species, connectivity etc.). The socio-cultural function contain improvement of living environment, stable emotion, community, and environmental education. The scenic beauty includes environmental-friendly facilities, maintenance of urban forest. The indicators have high feasibility to create and manage the urban forest through evaluating urban forest in practical. This indicators are useful to guide to develop urban forest and park.
Keywords
Ecological healthiness; Socio-cultural function; Scenic beauty; Urban park;
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