Yeon Su Kim

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-study identifies 43 independent variables ranging from internal attributes of the community and resources to external factors, including tenure security, clear ownership, congruence between biophysical and socioeconomic boundaries of the resources, effective enforcement of rules and regulations, monitoring, sanctioning, strong leadership with capable local organization, expectation of benefits, common interests among community members, and local authority.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically demonstrate that forest transition in South Korea was mainly accomplished by the recovery of degraded, non-stocked forest; and that one-dimensional FT analysis using forest area alone has severe limitations in diagnosing meaningful changes in forest sustainability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present close examinations of both process and power relations reconfigured by decentralising and recentralising forces across governmental levels, and reveal that the sources of real contention in KPH and community forestry policies are the power struggles between national, provincial and district bureaucracies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the economic effects of proximity to the forest, different forest conditions, and management schemes to neighboring property values using a geographic information system and found that proximity to a forest has a positive contribution to property values.

TL;DR: Policy recommendations are given for increasing the regional retention of rafting expenditures and for understanding both the beneficial and adverse impacts that accompany outdoor recreation in rural areas.