Restoration Planning for the Seoul Metropolitan Area, Korea

Lee, Chang Seok; Cho, Yong Chan; Lee, An Na

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-71425-7_25

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“…The parent rock of the mountainous areas around Seoul is usually composed of granite and gneiss, and the flat land beside rivers and streams is consisted of alluvium. Soil in these areas was classified into the Suam, Osan, Asan, and Anryong series, which developed on gneiss and granite bedrock [39,50]. The climate of Seoul is continental, with warm and moist summers and cold and dry winters.…”

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“…Thus, the synergistic effects of extreme weather events, like drought and temperature increase in relation to urbanization, could influence severely on the health and resilience of forests remaining in urban areas [37,38]. A decline of forest health and the following changes in species composition and vegetation structure would lead to change of ecosystem function and ultimately alter ecosystem services in those ecosystems [39,40].…”

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“…In Korea, forest began to show decline symptoms around the industrial complexes and large cities [41,42]. Further, change of mesoclimate due to excessive land use in urban area led to changes of vegetation structure and dynamics as well as soil properties [39,[42][43][44][45][46][47][48]. In addition, new environmental stress due to climate change is imposed additively to this forest decline and thereby incites degradation of urban forest in recent years.…”

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Forest Decline Under Progress in the Urban Forest of Seoul, Central Korea

Lee¹,

Jung²,

Lim³

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Forest Degradation Around the World

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Vegetation in the urban area showed not only a difference in species composition but also lower diversity compared with that of the natural area. Successional trend was normal in natural area, but that in urban areas showed a retrogressive pattern. Korean mountain ash (Sorbus alnifolia (Siebold & Zucc.) K.Koch), a shade intolerant species, dominated such a retrogressive succession. The vegetation decline is due to changes of mesoclimate and soil properties that imbalanced distribution of green space induced as the result of urbanization. In recent years, new environmental stress due to climate change is imposed additively to this forest decline. Drought is the very environmental stress. Drought-induced plant damage started from withering of leaves of plants introduced for landscaping in the urban area. Over time, branches died and death of the whole plant body followed. In particular, damage of Korean mountain ash, the product of retrogressive succession, was remarkable. As retrogressive succession has already progressed much, thus such phenomenon could be recognized as crisis of urban forest.

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Forest Decline Under Progress in the Urban Forest of Seoul, Central Korea

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“…This is because a non-urban population can be included in an urban population through the area expansion of administrative districts. The notion of population density would complement such flaw; however, similar to the idea of a minimum urban population level, regulating city size simply through population density would lack uniform criteria (Lee, 2009).…”

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“…The criteria for considering an area as a functional urban center for other adjacent areas includes the degree to which it provides urban facilities and a non-agricultural industrial structure. However, it is difficult to establish a unified index that satisfies all criteria (Lee, 2009).…”

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The optimum size of Seoul's districts in South Korea

Choi¹

2016

Journal of Public Affairs

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The optimum size of a city is marginal size when the city has inefficiencies in urban administration or the point that when a city loses attraction from citizens. This paper is examining optimal size of Seoul Autonomous Districts in South Korea. Because of the highly dense population in Seoul area, the government of South Korea is trying to solve this problem by implementing policies on developing non Seoul areas. However, it is important why Seoul in South Korea has abnormal dense population in comparison to other areas. Seoul is consisted of 25 autonomous districts and this paper found one autonomous district. Gangnam‐gu is a highly inefficient district comparing to other districts in Seoul. This finding can be a cause of dense population problem in Seoul. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Towns, Ecology, and the Land

Forman¹

2019

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Restoration Planning for the Seoul Metropolitan Area, Korea

Cited by 39 publications

References 29 publications

Forest Decline Under Progress in the Urban Forest of Seoul, Central Korea

Forest Decline Under Progress in the Urban Forest of Seoul, Central Korea

The optimum size of Seoul's districts in South Korea

Towns, Ecology, and the Land

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