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the economic development since the sixties has resulted in the
fever of city development and countless national sceneries and
cultural artifacts have been destroyed. Mountain areas are
located in hinterlands, being able to stay out of the fever
and preserve relatively unimpaired natural and cultural
resources.
Even though the current economic status is quite poor,
bringing inconvenience to the residents, it is fortunate that
this area preserves unrecoverable natural resources and
cultural heritages.
But this economical inferiority is the main reason for the
people to move into cities and the movement of young
population is leading to seriously rapid aging societies.
But as the increase in incomes leisure time results in greater
demand of rich natural environment and a peaceful life,
mountain villages are the only space that can meet the needs.
Also, the functions and roles of mountain villages are
becoming diversified along with social and economic
development.
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 Mountain
village
as
a
field
of
production
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Mountain
villages
play
a
traditional
role
of
yielding
agricultural
and
forest
products.
Along
with
this
traditional
farming,
they
are
fields
of
producing
craftworks
and
regional
specialties
based
on
various
products
in
mountainous
areas
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Mountain village as a base of farming and forestry output
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Now the forest production should be based on sustainable and
environmentally safe ecosystem. To achieve this,
mountain villages should take charge of producing as well as
maintaining and protecting functions for forests.
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Mountain as a field of life
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Current mountain villages are generating employment
opportunities through development of forest industries using
affluent natural environment, and also provide healthy and
lively space to live with its comfortable environment. Such an
improvement in the mountain villages creates an attractive
settlement space, calls back the people who once moved out and
also satisfies the expected living standard of people who gave
up farming.
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Mountain village as the place of preserving natural
environment and
ecological resources. |
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Forests are vulnerable to natural disasters, suffering various
harm throughout the year. Managing forests enables to protect
forests, conserve the land and well-managed forest ecosystem
provides habitats for animals and plants and preserves diverse
biological resources. Also, affluent natural
ecosystem as well as preservation and multiplication of
species according to diversity of life agreement, one of the
international environmental regulations, will ensure clean
environment and abundant water resources. The protection and
multiplication of biological resources in mountain villages in
each area will contribute to solving environmental problems
such as global warming effect.
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Mountain village as a place of recreation and
environmental education
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5-day work week starting from 2004 provides chances for
workers to escape city life and they want to take a rest in
nature; mountains, rivers, beaches. This leads to a rapid
increase in forest recreation facilities and mountain villages
must play this role. Also, increasing needs of farming /
mountain village experience tours highlights the crucial roles
of providing environmental education and experiences such as
ecology tour or green tour.
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Supplementing city life and economy
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Through balanced development of the country, it will improve
city environment and has now become the only place to meet the
demand of utilizing land for balanced development. Also
providing services and environmentally friendly crops with
highly added value produced in immaculate environment the
function only the mountain villages have.
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Mountain village as the field of cultural education and
succession
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Cultural resources in cities are now mostly destroyed by
increase of population and cities, but the mountain villages
still preserve reasonable amount of cultural and natural
resources. Since these places preserve these cultural assets,
it provides a crucial role. Also, by using these forest
resources well, it provides a field of experiencing education.
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Mountain village as performing the role of global protection
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World efforts to preserve national environments and the
policies are active, but through the enhancement of forests
will increase oxygen provision and will improve air qualities
by filtering. The mountain villages can play this role.
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Consequently, the existence of mountain villages to play these
roles is an absolute
reason.
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