Changing coastal ecosystem service under a development history |
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학술지명 한국환경생물학회
저자 원남일,김영성,김한욱,권보민
발표일 2016-07-01
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Coastal zone is one of vital areas of the planet earth providing many valuable ecosystem services. Coastal ecosystem, however, has been facing to many anthropogenic environmental stressors and is often one of the most impacted and vulnerable environment. Korean peninsula is surrounded by marine environment and has very distinct coastal waters. Western part of coastal areas have been under increasing development pressure such as reclamation and coastal city development due to huge tidal flat. The Lake Shihwa has been provided various benefits to human community since her establishment. This artificial coastal lake with a long dike has both pollution and restoration histories along intensive coastal utilization and subsequent anthropogenic environmental stressors. Some environmental issues have been still under severe considerations, e.g. sediment pollution. Some issues, however, have been believed to be greatly improved, e.g. water quality and polluted effluent. The latter is largely due to tremendous water exchange between inside and outside of the Lake since the operation of Tidal Power Plant (TPP). This is another aspect of human efforts to eliminate the present adverse effects induced by human activities. The current improved environment conditions showed that coastal water quality became similar in both inside and outside of the Lake. Overall COD, T-N, T-P value is higher at inside than at outside. Differences of COD, T-N and T-P density, however, have been gradually decreased after the operation of TPP. Therefore, under the environmental regime since the TPP operation, the environmental difference between the coastal waters and the lake waters is expected to become very smaller and even similar in near future. However, there is still several on-going development projects around this area including a new city development. The on-going city development project has been designed to include many advanced technologies to overcome pollution issues shown in the past d |