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http://dx.doi.org/10.13047/KJEE.2014.28.6.779

A Study on the Differences in Environmental Perceptions of the Interest Groups in the Protected Areas: Focused on Seoraksan National Park  

Kim, Jeongmin (Division of Tourism, Sangji Univ.)
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Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology / v.28, no.6, 2014 , pp. 779-788 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study, as a case where the environmental conflict and dispute arose between the use and the conservation as in the other protected areas in Korea, took the first step to build ecological citizenship to solve various and complicated issues in a fundamental level by providing a basic information on differentiated environmental perceptions of the locality and the visitors of Seoraksan National Park. The questionnaire survey was employed on September 6th and 7th with 150 residents of the park area and 200 visitors of Osaek-Daechungbong trail. Total number of 13 survey questions was introduced using Dunlap and Liere's NEP index. The result shows that the perception of 'balance of nature' was more dominant to the perception of 'humans over nature' and the perception to the 'limits to growth' was also somewhat positive in both groups. The differences in environmental perceptions between the groups exist; the visitor group tended to have more positive level of acceptance of NEP views. Such differences in perceptions suggest that a different normative approach should be taken to the residents of the national park with less pro-environment in their perceptions when policy making. It thus seemed possible that ecological citizenship could be realized since the younger and the higher education level are, the more pro-environment. The findings of the research may cause some concerns however, because the study has been confined as a case study with basic understanding of environmental perceptions and its differences between the interest groups. More extensive research is required to confirm if this is generalized.
Keywords
ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT; ECOLOGICAL CITIZENSHIP; NEP; CASE STUDY;
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