{"id":2805,"date":"2019-04-19T11:27:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T16:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/geography\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2019-04-22T09:24:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T14:24:20","slug":"woonsup-choi-north-korean-environmental-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/geography\/woonsup-choi-north-korean-environmental-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Study co-authored by Prof. Woonsup Choi recieving attention from news outlets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-5\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2014\/12\/choi-300.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-7\">\n&#8220;The effect of the famine on North Korea&#8217;s landscape seems to have been uneven. Woonsup Choi, a researcher at UW Milwaukee, co-authored a study in 2017 using satellite data showing that the &#8220;Arduous March&#8221; had a small net effect on overall forest cover in North Korea, even though it caused a substantial amount of change in ground cover. During the 1990s and early 2000s, he said, some areas appear to have lost their forests, while others became overgrown \u2014 possibly as a result of mass deaths and abandonment of land formerly under cultivation.<\/p>\n<p>Woonsup said any effort to interpret the findings for land changes would be speculative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think this is a limitation of this data set,&#8221; he told E&amp;E News. &#8220;Obviously it is almost impossible to go and see what&#8217;s going on.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1060175327\">Read the full article at E&amp;E News &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/with-widespread-deforestation-north-korea-faces-an-environmental-crisis\/\">Another article from Scientific American &gt;&gt;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UWM Geography associate professor Dr. Woonsup Choi has co-authored a study about the North Korean environmental crisis.  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