Socio-Cultural Asset Integration for a Green Infrastructure Network Plan in Yesan County, Korea

María José Carranza Orantes, Jinki Kim and Jiseok Kim
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María José Carranza Orantes: Department of Landscape Architecture, Kongju National University, 182 Shinkwan-dong, Gongju, Chungcheongnam-do 32588, South Korea
Jinki Kim: Department of Landscape Architecture, Kongju National University, 182 Shinkwan-dong, Gongju, Chungcheongnam-do 32588, South Korea
Jiseok Kim: Department of Regional Development, Kongju National University, 182 Shinkwan-dong, Gongju, Chungcheongnam-do 32588, South Korea

Sustainability, 2017, vol. 9, issue 2, 1-16

Abstract: Green Infrastructure (GI) can be used as a framework for planning human settlements and guiding development away from natural areas that possess high ecological value and provide important Ecosystem Services for society’s development. In this paper, we present a GI Plan for Yesan County (Yesan GI Plan), a small shrinking city in the Republic of Korea. Yesan possesses very rich, but still fairly unexplored natural and cultural resources. Therefore, Yesan’s GI Plan was developed through a multifunctional approach based on the different ecological and socio-cultural characteristics of the region, allowing to connect the core elements that conform the vernacular landscape and get the most out of the Ecosystem Services provided by resources in the area. The plan was defined mainly in two stages: first, applying weights to the different ecological and socio/cultural characteristics; secondly, arranging them through a set of GIS spatial analysis tools using a patch-corridor- matrix model approach. The final outcome is a lean network of ecological value hubs, connected to a set of socio-cultural value assets through a network of water bodies, intrinsic forestry characteristics and wildlife mobility in the area. This was followed in order to connect, facilitate and improve mobility and energy flow in Yesan.

Keywords: cultural indicator; culture; ecosystem services; geotagged images; green infrastructure; Hub; patch-corridor matrix (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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