• 환경영향평가
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.45-51
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• 1999

Emergy concept was used to evaluate the contributions of a dam construction to the real wealth of our economy. A dam that is proposed as a multi-purpose dam was used to illustrate emergy evaluation methodology. Models for emergy evaluation were constructed with energy systems language, a symbolic modeling language which presents network properties of systems holistically. Water supply was the most important contribution in terms of emergy, which reflects that the dam is proposed for stable water supply to a local region. Generation of electricity was the second in emergy benefits of the dam. Emergy costs were more evenly distributed among the costs which would occur as a result of the dam construction. Emergy yield ratio was 1.30 if sediments are not included, and 1.15 if sediments are included, which results in net yield in both cases. The ratio would, however, fall below 1.0 if rare species within the system boundary are lost as a result of the dam construction because of the high emergy value included in biotic species, which means that emergy costs will be greater than emergy benefits. This study illustrated a new methodology in environmental impact assessment to better manage our environments in an age of diminishing resources.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.1042-1054
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• 2006

Purpose: Previous evaluation studies of the visiting nursing program explained an average change of the participants' health status, without considering socio-ecological characteristics and their impacts. However, these factors must affect individual health problems and lifestyles. For effective and appropriate community based programs, the Geographical Information System(GIS) can be utilized. GIS is a computer-based tool for mapping and analyzing things that happen on earth, and integrates statistical analysis with unique visualization. The purpose of this study was to evaluate visiting nursing care and to advocate the usefulness of planning and evaluating visiting nursing programs using Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis(ESDA) with GIS technology. Methods: One hundred eighty-four elderly participants with cerebrovascular risk factors who lived in 13 areas of one community received visiting nursing care. The data analyzed characteristics of pre-post change and autocorrelation by ESDA using GIS technology. Results: Visiting nursing care showed an improvement in the participants' lifestyle habits, and family management ability and stress level, while the improvements were different depending on the regions. The change of family management ability and stress level correlated with neighborhoods (Morgan's I=0.1841, 0.1675). Conclusions: Community health providers need to consider the individual participant's health status as well as socio-ecological factors. Analysis using GIS technology will contribute to the effective monitoring, evaluation and design of a visiting nursing program.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.473-480
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• 2005

The cost of the construction and management of new apartment buildings was evaluated using a monetary analysis and an emergy concept to provide a new perspective regarding the housing policy of Korea. The systems of analyses were typical apartment buildings with an area of $76.03m^2$ per household in Korea built on the same size of land area. Three apartment buildings with different stories were evaluated and compared; 5-story, 15-story, and 20-story apartment buildings. The durable years of those apartments were assumed to be 40 years. The total cost of the construction and management of an apartment building was divided into three categories of construction, land purchase, and management. A 20-story apartment showed the highest cost and a 15-story apartment the lowest in the monetary cost analysis. In contrast, the emergy evaluation revealed a different pattern in the cost of construction and management, the cost increasing from a 5-story apartment to a 20-story one. This means that the higher the apartment constructed, the greater the cost in terms of real wealth. This result suggests that new evaluation methodologies like the emergy analysis should be used together with the monetary analysis to provide better insights on the national housing policy.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제99권6호
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• pp.777-784
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• 2010

본 연구는 산림경관의 현재수준을 평가하여 일련의 등급으로 구분하고 각 상황에 부합하는 관리전략을 수립, 실행할 수 있도록 평가지표를 개발하고자 수행되었다. 이를 위해 전문가를 대상으로 심층인터뷰 및 이메일설문조사 등의 정성적, 정량적 연구방법을 적용하여 과학적이며 객관적인 산림경관평가지표를 개발하고자 하였다. 전문가 의견수렴 결과 도출한 최종 산림경관등급화 평가지표는 '생태적 건강성'(녹지자연도, 생태자연도, 병 해충 피해수준, 수관활력도), '경관성'(자연성, 조화성, 다양성, 전통성, 심미성, 희귀성), '민감도'(관광휴양이용수준), '방해요소'(훼손지, 인공구조물) 등의 4개 범주, 총 13개 지표가 선정되었다. 또한 산림경관 평가 등급의 수는 5개로 구분하는 것이 가장 적절한 것으로 조사되었다.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.103-112
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• 1997

The object of this study is the introduction and the application of Ecological Footprint(EF) for sustainability of regional people activities. It is a tool for the evaluation of specific projects through various lifestyles or consumption to area of broad policy and budgets. But in Korea there is no assessment for consumption level of human activities by EF. Therefore this study try to analyse ecologically productive land for human activities of Cheju-island in order to assess the sustainability in Cheju and compares with another industrized countries. We analyze the human activities level of Cheju-island then the EF is about 0.9(ha/cap). This value is not more than another countries like Canada and United States. EF assists in choosing technologies, policies and Life Cycle Assessment(LCA) which can perform a certain task with the smallest ecological footprint. It will help society to avoid collapse and move towards sustainability and ecological efficiency.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.661-665
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• 2010

Current subway station's office employee must perform safety management tasks by monitoring the various safety management systems. But these monitoring systems are limited in effective situational awareness and response to a state of emergency immediately. It is necessary to develop an integrated safety management system display. In this study, we developed subway station safety management system's (CCTV, fire detection & alarm system, screen door control equipment) integrated prototype display with ecological interface design framework and evaluated prototype display interface's usability with GOMS model. The result was that the ecological interface's performance was better than existing safety management system's interface.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.913-918
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• 2006

Both raw wastewater and effluent from a rubber products manufacturing factory were found to be toxic to Daphnia magna though the effluent satisfied current water quality standards. Thus, in order to reduce toxicity, advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) such as gamma-ray (${\gamma}-ray$) treatment and ozonation ($O_3$) were applied. A combined ${\gamma}-rays/O_3$ treatment at 20 kGy after coagulation significantly reduced toxicity of raw wastewater, changing 48-h toxic unit (TU) value from 201.21 to 23.92. However, toxicity of treated water was higher than that of effluent (TU = 12.15). This shows limitation of gamma-ray treatment to remove toxicity of raw wastewater. In case of effluent, the combined ${\gamma}-rays/O_3$ treatment at 20 kGy efficiently decomposed toxic compounds down to non toxic level. This work strongly supports the necessity of toxicity reduction evaluation as well as toxicity-based effluent management.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.592-597
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• 2008

Current water quality standard (WQS) in Korea is based on the protection of human health, not considering the protection of aquatic organisms. Most of chemicals can be toxic to ecological biota as well as human. Health of aquatic biota is closely related to the human health via food chain, therefore ecological risk based-WQS needs to be developed to protect the aquatic ecosystem. In this study, we selected the 31 chemicals in the Project entitled 'Development of integrated methodology for evaluation of water environment'. The methodology for calculating water quality criteria was derived from the Australian and New Zealand processes for deriving guideline trigger value for aquatic ecosystem. The available ecotoxicity data were collected from US EPA's ECOTOXicology Database (ECOTOX), TOX-2000 Database, European Chemicals Bureau (ECB)'s International Uniform Chemical Information Database (IUCLID) and Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)'s report 'Ambient Water Quality Criteria (AWQC)'. The aquatic toxicity data for the Korean species were selected for risk assessment to reflect the Korean water environment. The monitoring values were calculated from the water quality monitoring data four main Korean rivers. We suggested the order of priorities of chemicals based on ecological risk assessment. We expect that these results can be useful information for establishing the WQS for the protection of aquatic ecosystem.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.309-315
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• 2020

Advances in biotechnology have led to progress in crop genetic engineering to improve agricultural productivity. The use of genetically modified (GM) crops has increased, as have consumers' and regulators' concerns about the safety of GM crops to human health, and ecological biodiversity. As such, the identification of GM crops is a critical issue for developers and distributors, and their labeling is mandatory. Multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been developed and its use validated for the detection and identification of GM crops in quarantine. Herein, we established a simultaneous detection method to identify four GM maize events. Event-specific primers were designed between the junction region of transgene and genome of four GM maize lines, namely 5307, DAS-40278-9, MON87460, and MON87427. To verify the efficiency and accuracy of the multiplex PCR we used specificity analysis, limit of detection evaluation, and mixed certified reference materials identification. The multiplex PCR method was applied to analyze 29 living, modified maize volunteers collected in South Korea in 2018 and 2019. We performed multiplex PCR analysis to identify events and confirmed the result by simplex PCR using each event-specific primer. As a result, rather than detecting each event individually, the simultaneous detection PCR method enabled the rapid analysis of 29 GM maize volunteers. Thus, the novel multiplex PCR method is applicable for living modified organism volunteer identification.

• 생태와환경
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.296-307
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• 2016

생태적 복원은 온전한 자연의 체계와 기능을 모방하여 인간이 훼손시킨 자연을 치유함으로써 다양한 생물들에게 서식공간을 제공하고 인류의 미래 환경을 확보하기 위한 생태기술이다. 이러한 생태적 복원은 복원대상에 대한 다각적 측면의 진단평가 결과에 근거하여 수립된 복원 가이드라인에 따라 수행되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 무등산국립공원의 훼손된 산림의 생태적 질을 평가하고, 이를 회복시키기 위한 경관수준의 복원 가이드라인을 수립하였다. 이를 위해, 우선 자연적 요소(지형, 기후, 식생 분포)와 인위적 요소(토지이용, 선형 경관요소의 분포)를 고려하여 무등산국립공원에 성립해 있는 산림의 생태적 질을 진단하였다. 이와 더불어, 선형 경관요소에 의해 구획된 각 권역의 기하학적 속성 및 토지이용 강도에 근거하여 온전성 정도를 평가한 후 이를 점수화하였다. 분석 결과, 무등산국립공원의 거시적 지형은 모암의 풍화 특성에 의해 결정되는 양상이었으며, 식생대는 해발고도의 수직적 구배에 따라 난온대상록활엽수림대, 난온대낙엽활엽수림대 및 냉온대낙엽활엽수림대로 구분되었다. 토지이용유형에서 무등산국립공원은 활엽수림, 침엽수림 및 혼합림이 전체의 약 90%를 차지하였다. 경관파편화를 유발하는 경관요소로서 탐방로는 총 97개소로 파악되었다. 경관의 질 점수는 평균 $69.86{\pm}11.41$로 나타났다. 진단평가 결과, 무등산국립공원 내 산림의 생태적 질은 인간활동의 영향을 크게 받았고, 그 영향 정도는 지형에 따라 다르게 나타났다. 한편, 무등산국립공원은 산 중심으로 설정된 국립공원 경계와 모암의 풍화 특성에 의해 공원구역 내 수공간이 부족한 것으로 파악되어 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 주변 지역과의 생태네트웍 구축이 필요한 것으로 판단되었다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 진단평가 결과에 바탕을 두고 무등산국립공원의 생태적 질을 향상시키기 위한 복원 가이드라인을 제시하였다.