농촌경관 보전을 위한 정책 동향과 시사점

Abstract

The aim of this rather short essay is to examine the latest attempts to institutionalize the policy programs for the preservation of rural landscape, and their challenges and lessons. For example, the Direct Payment Program for Rural Landscape Preservation adopted in 2005 by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Direct Payment Program for the Cultivation of Buckwheat Flower Field set up by the Pyeongchang County, and the County Ordinance for the Preservation of Rural Landscape of the Gochang County all accept the direct payment method for the planting and cultivation of designated crops at earmarked farmlands. However, any direct payment program for rural landscape preservation must be expanded in terms of its policy horizon to include landscape elements other than farmland, and must be refined in terms of its institutional framework to reflect local and regional traits. First and foremost, the preservation program must be refined in order to preserve rural landscape in a sustaining manner even without an incentive of direct payment, and must be bolstered and backed up through the legislation of the so-called "Rural Landscape Act".