2005, Vol.45, No.

The Korea Spatial Planning Review 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.2

pISSN : 1229-8638
https://journal.kci.go.kr/krihs

The purposes of this study were to check the current status of management effectiveness evaluation in protected areas, and to search for its introductory and useful methods. To identify the current state of management effectiveness evaluation in Korea, these were thoroughly reviewed in terms of legal status, some projects related to protected area management, and recent audit reports which had looked over the management status of natural protected zones here. And evaluation tools such as tacking tool were also examined to assess international evaluation trends and to detect some suggestions for introducing these devices. One of the research results included insufficient legal support for evaluation; the other problem was that current audits couldn't take stock of the effectiveness of protected area management systematically. In addition, three points were suggested by this study to improve the management of protected areas drawing on management effectiveness evaluation: 1) To make new legal clauses to promote management effectiveness evaluation 2) To develop the proper evaluation tool in Korea 3) To construct the adaptive management system.

Korea has experienced serious flood damages caused by severe torrential rain and typhoons for last decade. Moreover, large cities recently have suffered not only rainwater overflow through sewages from paved space in the rainy season but also water shortage from drought and water abuse. The purpose of this study is to develop rainwater management including rainwater utilization facility, storage facility and infiltration facility. Especially, this study aims to improve the regulations and support system related rainwater. The finding and conclusions of this study are as follows. First of all, this study established a new paradigm which puts water utilization, flood control and environment together. Based on this concept, the regulations of rainwater are suggested to revise like that: the provisions early made by water law will expand the scope of application to national land plan law or make a new law for just rainwater management. On the other hand, Rainwater is very useful and environmental resource. However it has not been usually used by people in real life because of inconvenience and economic feasibility. Accordingly, this study suggests several support systems such as incentive allowance like tax and water-supply wage rate reduction and capacity release in building, offer low rate bank- loan and levy on water-supply use as well. Finally, the rainwater management is strongly required to work efficiently in cooperating the above outputs in concrete regulations.

The main purpose of this paper is to empirically analyse the economical efficiency of spatial concentration of economic activities and population into the Seoul Metropolitan Area(S.M.A). The translog cost function is used to estimate the differences of regional agglomeration economies of the employer density and geographic population density values and the categories of agglomeration economies are classified into urbanization economy, localization economy and economy of scale.The most part of S.M.A have had agglomeration economies and the northern part of S.M.A have had higher agglomeration economies than the southern part. Urbanization economies and economy of scale were found both in the northern and southern part whereas the localization economy only in the southern part of S.M.A. Finally, the agglomeration economies were decreasing in the more concentrated part, and in the less concentrated part of S.M.A more concentration produce larger agglomeration economies.