Impacts of the Substitution of Firewood for Home Use on the Forest Greening after the 1945 Liberation of Korea
2006
Bae, J.S. (Korea Forest Research Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea), E-mail: [email protected] | Lee, K.B. (Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea)
The aim of this paper is to identify and evaluate relations for forest greening and the firewood substitution for home use after 1945 Liberation of Korea. Korea faced serous forest degradation by the early 1960s due to the enormous firewood consumption, which was about ten million cubic meters annually, for home use. If the trend of firewood consumption was maintained until 1955's, the total forest area in Korea could be thoroughly degraded within 10 years. The firewood substitution for home use had to be solved as soon as possible.
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