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A GIS-Assisted Assessment and Attribute-Based Clustering of Forest Wetland Utility in South Korea
- Source :
- Sustainability, Vol 11, Iss 17, p 4632 (2019), Sustainability, Volume 11, Issue 17
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2019.
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Abstract
- The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of forest wetlands by developing factors for site suitability and applying these factors to 107 sites in South Korea. We developed a forest wetland assessment in a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) environment to assess site suitability. We considered 16 factors including slope, elevation, visibility, land ownership, distance to city, and so on. We conducted an expert survey with experts to analyze the relative importance by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). We found that the order of importance of the 5 criteria applied in this study was: (1) Natural Ecology, (2) Land Use, (3) Natural Landscape, (4) Tourist Attraction, and (5) Accessibility. We then analyzed the spatial characteristics of each site based on the AHP result and divided the 107 forest wetlands into three categories by cluster analysis. Sites with high scores on the assessment were primarily the landscape ecology or land use criterion. Our differentiation of these forest wetland characteristics could help enable policymakers to develop sustainable management with the aim of balancing conservation with utilization in ecotourism destinations.
- Subjects :
- Geographic information system
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
AHP
lcsh:TJ807-830
Geography, Planning and Development
lcsh:Renewable energy sources
Analytic hierarchy process
Wetland
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
01 natural sciences
environmental capacity
lcsh:Environmental sciences
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Natural landscape
lcsh:GE1-350
geography.geographical_feature_category
Land use
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants
Environmental resource management
GIS
lcsh:TD194-195
Geography
efficient land use
Ecotourism
Sustainable management
forest recreation
Landscape ecology
business
cluster analysis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....69a6728712bb8defeb3c5371432ac7dd
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su11174632