Coastal environment considered from the view of water resources management |
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학술지명 한국환경생물학회
저자 원남일,김영성,허영택
발표일 2016-07-01
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Coastal zone has been closely connected to upstreas watershed and been extensively utilized by human for a long time. Under recent climate variabilities, the water resources management has become more important due to the increased uncertainty of water resources, giving suffering impacts on human communities such as severe droughts and floods. These circumstances invoked more integrated and watershed-wide water management efforts. The coastal areas around Korean Peninsula has been remarked as one of the most impacted areas by human dimension. This paper is going to provide an overview of management efforts and developments in Korean coastal areas in terms of water resources and spatial utilization. Marine sand mining and water city development are also included as important cases as well as river-ocean interactions in coastal bay environments. The watershed-wide reorganization of water utilization was planned with less intense consideration of downstream environments such as estuaries and coastal bays, leading to rising and on-going concerns on impacts by the change of freshwater input. Water city developments have been performed by implementation of Low Impact Development (LID) guidelines, giving sustainable environmental considerations. However, there are still limited integration with neighboring coastal environments. As one of remotely land-connected activities, marine sand mining in Korean EEZ areas has been conducted for the last few decades. However, the impacts on whole marine ecosystem and fisheries are not clearly presented and still left for the further examination due to the limited information of the offshore ecosystems. From these contexts, the recent water resources managements and developments in Korean coastal areas are believed to introduce more resilient approaches such as LID and total pollutant load management. Further scientific challenges are required to provide sound and convincing knowledge for decision making by stakeholders from various e |