山林環境에 대한 住民意識 考察 = Studies on Residents Conscious of the Forest Environments

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Summarized is on result of studies on the forest-adjacent people's consciousness of forest environment as a part of presurving the forest environment along with increase of the forest resources based on findings by questionaire survey conducted on December of 1993 to March of 1994.
Attitude by the forest-populace of their consciousness of forests in diverse according to factors of forest environment of surveyed area. Especially it is observed that major changes on their consciousness of forest were dominated by ratio of forest area of forest, density of forest and density of populace. In answer to a question of value of the forest, the respondents recognized the forest as a place for hiking and strolling, recreation or resort place and for field animals. Their consciousness retreated from the farming society when the thought that the forests were sources of harvisting crops. A changed status from agricultural society to industrial society was noted. Consciousness of the forest that turned out as most scarce in inter-relation with factors of forest environment was an item of harvest of forest products and national security.
It is partly due to the fact that greenification project of mountains in Korea was completed relatively in a short period and partly due to consequence of increased national per capital income. Tendency of consciousness of the forest is some different from that Japanese people. The questionaires were responded by 70∼80% of surveyes. Person of age braeket of 30∼40 expressed their high interest. This indicates a green signal of good forest development of the future. According to classification of jobs of the respondents, workers in the forest field is higher in their respondence rate than non-farming people. Rate of population working in agriculture and forest field in area of Chungju city and Euijungbu city is 8.4 and 2% respectively. Rate of workers in field of agriculture and forest is decreasing drastically year by year in all the other areas. It is far more serious that workers of the forests are decreasing more and more than in agriculture. The owners of the mountains residing near to their mountains are scarce indeed and their forest are almost abandoned.
If the forest resources and forest environment be preserved. lucrative products of the forest should be developed and mechanical equipment be provided and forest lanes should be developed under the national financial aid.
There is urgent need of giving privilege of tax and insentive support or reward to exemplary exclusive workers of forest and forest specialists. The national people should be enlightened that the forests are valuable for and useful to humans life in any way of tangible or intangible forms.