Abstract

The village grove is a representative landscape of rural villages, and has an ecological function as a green environment and a function of providing various cultural spaces in the village. This study tried to derive an evaluation index that can measure the value of village grove by applying the conceptual framework of ecosystem services. First, through the review of international literatures related to ecosystem service evaluation, four major categories of supply, regulation, support, and culture were established as evaluation indicators, and 28 detailed items were set. The functions, roles, and effects of village grove that appeared in 21 literature related to village groves were classified according to the evaluation items, and detailed contents of each type were reviewed. Considering the functions of village groves in the past and present, 24 evaluation items of 4 types were selected through expert consensus. As a result of analyzing the reliability by evaluating the importance of the residents of the four villages with the derived evaluation items, the Cronbach alpha coefficient for 24 items was 0.857, which is highly reliable, but the reliability is higher except for three items of supply and one item of support. In addition, when analyzing the importance of each item, the importance of the supply function was lower than the average level. Based on the results of reliability and importance, 20 items were derived as ecological service evaluation indicators for the village grove, excluding four items of supply and support that were low in importance and reliability in the village grove.

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