한국 생태공동체 활성화를 위한 제도적 개선 방안 모색

Abstract

Eco-community in Korea started in the early seventies when high social concern and activity aroused spontaneously about 'life' and 'environment,' being highly enlivened in the nineties when organic farming community layed a quiet strong foundation throughout most local areas. Now it has become a complex model for the alternative social movement questing for 'autonomy' in a real sense. While increasing in number, eco-communities have been playing a meaningful role to show the society and its each constituent how human being should live in harmony with nature in pursuit of real happiness and can overcome the current crisis threatening life. Now eco-community has become an apparent social phenomenon and reality which can not be ignored, at the same time being a main issue. The following studies should be focused on the inner/outer conditions and relations under which eco-communities can be operated and extended in many different and various local areas. In this respect, this study is mainly focused on the whole conditions necessary for the enlivenment and extension of eco-community in the process of constructing an ideal model of eco-community. Following the introduction, chapter II explains in general first the concept of eco-community and its characteristics in Korea, next analyzes the limits or defects of standardized and fixed policy and system about eco-community. Chapter III, the most crucial part, examines as a way of extension of eco-community what is a virtually stumbling stone or can be a stepping stone in constructing an ecological and communal life in eco-community. Chapter IV, the conclusion part, presents, as a whole, basic conditions to enliven eco-communities.