• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.53-58
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• 2003

Ever-growing recreation, tourism and ecotourism worldwide have become a significant factor of resource degradation in many protected areas. Managers of these areas are increasingly challenged to implement policies, strategies and actions that would protect the resource base while providing quality visitor experience. One major issue in managing protected area visitations is that of carrying capacity, or the question of "how much use is too much\ulcorner". Scientific studies of visitor impacts, often known as recreation ecology, has generated a knowledge base that provides valuable input to the visitor carrying capacity management process adopted by the U.S. National Park Service. This paper aims at (a) providing an overview of recreation ecology research and its application in managing visitor carrying capacity, and (b) examining the relevance of recreation ecology to East Asian protected areas with special reference to the visitor capacity issue.ity issue.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.163-183
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• 2005

In order to clarify and redefine theoretical concepts of consumptions in modern society, the study examines currently enlarging and changing concepts of consumptions. Definitely, the modern society is transferred from industrial society to consumer society, and the meaning of recent consumptions is changed and expanded. In other words, it is important to investigate new cultures and concepts of modern consumptions beyond the fixed perceptions of past consumptions. Today, consumptions in modem society are more than just consumptions. It is not only Physical needs but also Psychological needs of individuals who live in modern society. Hence, this study analyzes and redefines the concepts in modem society's consumptions with respect to set of variables: personal, social, commercial, cultural, and ecological.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제25호
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• pp.42-48
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• 2000

The building remodeling is providing a lot of solutions - structural, aesthetic, environmental, and energy performance improvement - in improving buildings performance and environment. The remodelings influences on our society are resource conservation, environmental conservation, expansion of construction market, and creation of new employment. The three principal remodeler groups involved in this building remodeling are general construction contractors, interior architecture contractors, and ESCO (Energy Service Company). Having a representative character, this study classifies remodeling methods into five types: structural remodeling, spatial remodeling, exterior remodeling, environment-friendly remodeling, and ecological remodeling.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.809-822
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• 1999

We consider the mathematical model of a resource-based autotroph-herbivore system where diffusion of nutrient within the soil is taken into account. We have derived the conditions for the existence of steady-state to the system and studied the stability and instability of the patially homogeneous case. Then we have introduced the diffusion term to the system and studied the qualitative behabviour of the spatially inhomogeneous case. Finally we have discussed the salient features of the analytical results giving also the ecological interpretations.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.25-50
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• 2005

본 연구는 조건부가치측정법(CVM)을 이용하여 생태적으로 보호가치가 있는 생태자연도 1등급지 훼손 방지를 위한 지불의사금액 방정식을 추정하고 그로부터 생태자연도 1등급지의 가치를 추정하였다. 이중 양분선택형 질문법을 이용한 조사에서 얻어진 자료의 분석 결과, 생태자연도 1등급지 10만 평 훼손 방지를 위한 가구당 연간 지불의사금액은 8,898원(95% 신뢰구간은 6,611원~1만 1,976원)으로 추정되었다. 또한 생태자연도 1등급지 10만 평 훼손 방지에 전국 가구의 연간 지불의사금액(연간의 경제적 가치)은 1,281억 원(95% 신뢰구간은 951억 원~1,724억 원)에 이르렀다. 생태자연도 10만 평의 자산 가치는 1조 7,074억 원(95% 신뢰구간 1조 2,686억 원~2조 2,980억 원)으로 추산된다. 한편 생태자연도 1등급지의 총가치 중에서 직접 사용가치는 22.0%, 간접 사용가치는 38.8%, 선택가치는 19.9%, 보전가치는 21.3%를 차지하고 있음을 알 수 있다. 연구 결과를 환경경제통합계정의 자연자산계정 작성에 직접적으로 이용하기는 한계가 있지만, 사전 환경성 평가 및 환경영향 평가에서 의사결정에 보조 자료로는 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제79권3호
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• pp.330-342
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• 1990

One might have a retrospect on the relationship between the forest and human being from the viewpoint of ecological perspective. It is no doubt that most of the fossil humans should have lived on the forest and the latter provided foods and shelters for humans from their beginning stages, Since the so-called agricultural revolution, humans have extensively started to exploit the forest which had beer, their cradle. The industrial revolution has created another situation against the forest in terms of the quality of ecosystem. These two revolutions have set up the so-called civilization which seems to have been based on the sacrificial oblation of the forest. The cradle for human being has been kept exterminating for the shake of "economic development and miracle." This might be a synoptic history of relationships between the forest and human beings in a sense. designates the behavioral aspects of human being against the forest and people consider the forest only as exploitable resource in this context, and the latter means that people live on the forest and strive to adapt the order of forest ecosystem. The resourcism has developed a strategy of colonialism to exploit the forest and provided a winner's position for the human beings against the forest, This idea and behavioral perspective seems to have started the backfire against the exploiter who is the owner of the civilization. However, there are different philosophies and ideas to view the relationship between the forest and human beings. People within the forest who are mostly considered as "primitives" still keep their idea of the ontology of the forest. There is a theoretical assumption of the "socionatural system" to look into the ecosystem. The forest could be viewed in the above frame of analysis. There are five variables : environment, resource, technology, organization, and ideology. Ideological aspect of the forest can be explained in the context of belief systems. Forest has a meaning of religion and rituals and people within the forest should admire it in anyway of religious reasons. This aspect of the forest cannot be separated from the environmental aspect of the forest. People within the forest acknowledge and practice the above idea. People outside the forest have lost the idea, however, at the cost of acquiring the civilization. They have expelled themselves from the forest and divided the socionatural system of the forest by way of colonialism. The efforts like agroforestry and social forestry would be strategies for recovering the idea of ontology of the forest as well as the sense of community including the forest and human being. People within the forest will be a prospective model for the future socionatural system of the forest for the people outside the forest. At this point, an ecological anthropologist can work with the forest specialists.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제33권11호
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• pp.847-854
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• 2011

주요 신재생에너지인 바이오에너지의 일환으로 조류를 이용한 바이오에너지 및 자원화 기술에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 조류는 영양염류 제거 능력을 활용해서 하수와 같은 오폐수 내 난분해성오염물질과 영양염류 제거의 고도처리도 가능하다. 조류와 박테리아 간의 생태적인 상호작용이 조류를 활용한 하수처리 및 하수자원화에 중요한 역할을 함에도 불구하고, 실지 하수 조건에서 조류와 박테리아간의 생태학적인 상호작용에 관한 과학적인 정보가 부족하다. 본 연구에서는 하수에서 배양이 잘 되고, 지질함량이 높다고 알려진 국내 조류 종인 Ankistrodesmus gracilis SAG 278-2의 하수오염물질 제거 특성과 조류 주입에 따른 하수 박테리아 군집의 반응을 실지 하수 조건에서 연구하였다. 하수 박테리아의 수가 증가는 조류의 성장 속도를 감소시켰으나, 반면 조류의 성장은 박테리아의 생존 및 내성호흡 생분해 속도에는 영향을 주지 않았다. 조류가 주입된 하수에서 난분해성 유기물질 및 총질소의 제거 향상이 관찰되었다. 박테리아 16S rRNA 유전자 T-RFLP 분석에 따르면 조류의 주입은 시간에 따라 박테리아 군집에 영향을 주었다. 박테리아 16S rRNA 유전자 PCR 증폭, clone 및 염기서열 분석 결과, 하수 내 조류의 성장은 박테리아 군집 구성을 변화시키며, 조류와 함께 공동 성장 가능한 박테리아는 Sediminibacterium, Sphingobacterium, Mucilaginibacter 속에 속하는 개체로 판명되었다.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제108권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2019

본 연구는 국립환경과학원에서 실시한 국가 장기 생태 연구를 위해 구축된 한라산 영실 구상나무림 1 ha ($100m{\times}100m$)를 대상으로 흉고직경급 분포, 수간건강상태, 중요치, 종다양도 분석을 통해 6년간(2011~2017)의 임분 구조 및 동태를 비교하기 위하여 실시하였다. 흉고직경급 분포에서 구상나무는 20-25 cm 직경급을 제외하고 모든 직경급에서 개체수의 감소가 나타났으며, 총 개체수의 변화도 780개체에서 655개체로 감소하였다. 수간건강상태에서 구상나무의 곧게 서서 생육하는 개체(AS)의 비율이 652개체(66.1 %)에서 546개체(60.2 %)로 감소한 반면에 곧게 서서 고사한 개체(DS)의 비율은 106개체(10.7 %)에서 126개체(13.9 %)로, 쓰러져 고사한 개체(DF)의 비율은 16개체(1.6 %)에서 47개체(5.2 %)로 각각 증가하였다. 구상나무의 중요치는 2011년 45.9 %에서 2017년 43.5 %로 감소한 것으로 나타났다. 종다양도의 경우, 2011년 0.513에서 2017년 0.519로 증가한 것으로 나타났다. 2011년에서 2017년까지 6년간의 변화를 살펴보았을 때, 한라산 영실지역에서 구상나무의 세력 약화는 흉고직경급 분포, 수간건강상태, 중요치 등 많은 측면에서 뒷받침 되고 있으며, 앞으로 생태계 변화에 의한 영향을 구명하기 위한 장기적인 모니터링 및 연구가 필요할 것으로 사료되었다.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.151-159
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• 2003

Absorbent Biofilter Systems (ABS), composed of an anaerobic septic tank, a pump chamber and an absorbent biofilter tank, have been found to economically provide rural on-site wastewater treatment. This study was conducted to assess the potential of ABS effluent as an alternative water resource for agricultural and environmental use, with respect to the removal of pathogenic microorganism and their fertilization effect. A pilot scale ABS was used to compare its removal efficiency of pathogens from effluent water. Overall, more than 95 percent of Salmonella and E. coli were removed. This result demonstrates that a significant reduction in the pathogenic microorganism of effluents can occur in ABS, which implies the feasibility for the use of ABS effluent in agriculture and environment, with the provision of a further simple disinfection step, in order to satisfy the WHO guidelines for the microbiological quality in agriculture. In addition, because of the abundant nutritional content of ABS effluent, the substitution effect of fertilizer (N, P and K) in paddy irrigation, i.e. 2/3 for nitrogen, l/3 for phosphorus and 1/5 for potassium would be expected. Based on the experimental data, the ABS effluent could be used as a new alternative water resource for paddy irrigation, as well as for environmental purposes, such as supplying water to ecological parks in rural villages.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.200-216
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• 2020

Many studies conducted in Kenya regarding water resource governance have focused on the mandate of Water Resource Users Associations (WRUAs) with less attention being accorded to their effectiveness in conservation of wetlands. This study assessed the effectiveness of WRUA committees, and challenges faced in conservation of Rwamuthambi Sub-catchment. The study employed exploratory descriptive research design. Data was collected through questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, observations and review of secondary data. Chi square and descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data. The survey results revealed that only 15% of WRUA committee understood water resources management while 35% were aware of relevant legislations. Factors of wetland degradation showed significant association with existence of WRUA (χ2 (4, N=180) = 20.46, p< .01) where (χ2- chi square (degrees of freedom, N = sample size) = chi-square statistic value, p = p value), although WRUA contributions were perceived differently per agro-ecological zone (χ2 (8, N=147) = 15.51, p>.05). Challenges unearthed were inadequate financial and human resources, lack of understanding, ineffective collaborative governance, poor support from county government and private ownership of riparian land reserve. There is need for WRUAs to embrace collaborative governance for effective conservation of wetlands. Integration of sub catchment management plan with county land use plans and policy review is also required.