​1. Research Purpose and Method

■ Research Purpose

￮ With the government promoting the “Natural Environment Restoration Project” as a carbon-neutral policy and a measure to restore the degraded land, the Jeollabuk-do project is essential to select a candidate site for green restoration and prepare promotion strategies, such as securing the national budget.

 ­- According to Clauses 3 to 6 in Article 45 of the Natural Environment Conservation Act, the Ministry of Environment plans to discover and catalog candidate sites for the Natural Environment Project according to the region in 2023 and implement the project in 2024.

￮ As a follow-up of “A Study on Jeollabuk-do Green Restoration Promotion Methods for Degradation Areas of Natural Environmnet”, promoted as a policy project proposed by the Jeonbuk Research Institute in 2022, candidate sites for the Jeollabuk-do Green Restoration Project will be listed. The project will be promoted for logical development to support future promotion plans of cities and counties.

■ Research methods

￮ This study analyzed green restoration policy trends, technology trends, and promotion cases using preceding research and case studies analyses.

￮ The evaluation standards and priorities of candidate sites and evaluation standards of pilot projects of the Natural Environment Restoration Project of the Ministry of Environment presented in the Natural Environment Conservation Act were analyzed. Further, a method was proposed to analyze the conditions of the candidate sites for the Jeollabuk-do Green Restoration Project.

￮ The promotion conditions of the Jeollabuk-do Green Restoration Project, discovered through field investigation, interviews with concerned parties from cities and counties, and consultation with relevant experts, were analyzed. The results of the analysis were used to understand the policy direction of the Ministry of Environment and derive strategies for securing the national budget in the process of promoting green restoration projects.

2. Conclusion and Policy Suggestion

■ Green Restoration Policies, Technology Trends, and Promotion Cases

￮ The Ministry of Environment plans to discover pilot projects for the Natural Environment Restoration Project, select candidate sites after conducting field investigation for each project, and make an announcement by the end of 2023. Jeollabuk-do also deduced backup candidate sites for the Green Restoration Project as preceding research.

￮ The international community, including the EU and major countries suchas Australia and Canada, are implementing various restoration projects following an adaptive management system drawn from a nature-based solution (blue-green infrastructure, green infrastructure, etc.) and creating ecosystem services and diverse social and economic effects for the local community through the restoration projects.

■ Jeollabuk-do Green Restoration Candidate Site Selection and Implementation Conditions Analysis

￮ Three candidate sites were selected for the Jeollabuk-do Green Restoration Project by analyzing the relevance of the backup candidates proposed through the preceding research in 2022 and referring to the Ministry of Environment’s restoration project types.

 - ­① Iksan special royal palace region local environment restoration project, ② Gochang tidal flat to Incheon River ecological network restoration project, and ③ Jangsu Sachijae Baekdudaegan ecosystem restoration project.

￮ The evaluation standards and priorities of candidate sites and evaluation standards of pilot projects of the Natural Environment Restoration Project of the Ministry of Environment were analyzed, the analysis items for the promotion conditions of the selected Green Restoration Project candidate sites were deduced, and an analysis and field investigation of the promotion conditions of the candidate sites were conducted according to project.

■ Jeollabuk-do Green Restoration Project Implementation Roadmap Proposal

￮ Securing a national budget, materializing the project contents, and creating a phased promotion plan for the selected Green Restoration Project were presented as a roadmap, and the roles of each city and county of Jeollabuk-do were proposed at the project implementation stage.

￮ Regarding the restructuring direction of the Ministry of Environment’s Natural Environment Restoration Project promotion system, the promotion direction of the project was presented according to the size and contents of the Jeollabuk-do Green Restoration Project, and the expected effect of the Green Restoration Project was explained. 

￮ As a policy direction, restoration goals for the Green Restoration Project reflecting the characteristics of Jeollabuk-do were presented according to area and type.​