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http://dx.doi.org/10.14578/jkfs.2014.103.4.646

A Strategy for Official Development Assistance in Forest Sector based on Evaluation by Field in Korea  

Yoo, Byoung Il (Division of Forest Economics and Management, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Yoon, Bo Eun (Division of Forest Economics and Management, Korea Forest Research Institute)
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Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science / v.103, no.4, 2014 , pp. 646-654 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to draw policy implications for the development and expansion of Korea's forest ODA through investigating the perceptions of stakeholder on the fields that contributed the development of forestry in Korea and would have competitiveness in developing countries and priority fields for Korea's forest ODA. For this, the survey was conducted for 248 subjects from the general and expert stakeholder groups. Chi-square test in cross analysis, independent sample t-test, ANOVA and Duncan test were conducted to compare the difference of perceptions by group. The whole general and expert groups consider that 'forest conservation and rehabilitation' contributed to the development of Korea's forestry most and consider its global competitiveness most high. Comparing expert groups, ODA experts evaluated the competitiveness of 'capacity building for policies, institutions and research' higher than the forestry experts. For priority fields of Korea's forest ODA, general groups perceived 'management of CERs' and 'conservation of biodiversity' most important, showing the clear difference in perception compared to that of experts. In Conclusion, for the effective forest ODA of Korea, the effort to fill the gap between the general and expert groups needs to be made, as well as developing forestry capacity building programs to cope with the fields such as climate change adaptation and biodiversity conservation, which is newly required in a global society, in addition to using the past experience of forest rehabilitation in Korea. It will be useful for the rehabilitation of North Korea's forest in the future.
Keywords
forestry; official development assistance (ODA); competitiveness; priority fields; perception of stakeholder; North Korea;
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