• 환경영향평가
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.1-8
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• 1995

In generally speaking, the purpose of Environmental Impact Assessment(EIA) is to give the environment its due place in the decision-making process by clearly ealuating the environmental consequence of a proposed activity before action is taken. The introduction of conventional EIA is to be seen as an end product of a very long evolutionary process, starting with rudimentary but evolving pollution control measures for air, water, noise, land and chemicals, each governed by separate, and separately administered pieces of legislation. In EIA process, the measures of status, scoping, proposed mitigation and communication have not been very quantitative in their significancy. Of course, the determinations have uncertainity in the implications for significant impacts. To improve the determination of significant impacts, some more comprehensive methodologies of EIA has been proposed with the concepts of risk analysis in the proposed projects. The concepts of risk analysis has been introduced to the expression of human health impairment due to environmental pollutants since the early 1980's. The risk analysis being meant by the statistical significance of impact has a process quantitatively considering uncertainities and importances of ecological systems and human health as well. The process of risk analysis shows assessment, doseresponse in toxicity, exposure assessment and risk characterization. With the risk assessment, it could be suggested for the proper measurements against their anticipated risk in the EIA. This paper deals the priciples developing process and application of the risk-based analysis in EIA.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.165-170
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 벤즈이소시아졸리논의 초기 생태위해성을 평가하기 위해 물리 화학적 특성과 환경거동 및 경로를 조사하였고, 어류, 물벼룩 및 조류를 이용한 수생태 독성시험을 수행하였다. 조사 결과, 벤즈이소시아졸리논은 비휘발성으로 환경 중 주로 토양과 물에 분포하는 특성이 있으며, 토양 내 이동성과 생물농축 가능성이 낮은 편으로 나타났다. Oryzias laties를 이용한 급성 독성시험 결과 96시간-$LC_{50}$ 값은 4.7 mg/L(측정농도), Daphnia magna를 이용한 48시간-$EC_{50}$ 값은 3.3 mg/L(측정농도)이었다. Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata를 이용한 72시간-$EC_{50}$ 값은 0.456 mg/L(평균 성장률, 설정농도)와 0.262 mg/L(수율, 설정농도)이었다. 시험 종 가운데 독성에 가장 민감한 조류의 수율 $EC_{50}$ 값에 평가 계수 100을 적용한 예측무영향 농도는 2.62 ${\mu}g/L$이었다. 각 시험군의 독성 종말점을 GHS (Globally Harmonized System) 기준에 따라 분류한 결과 조류 독성은 급성독성 1등급, 어류 및 물벼룩 독성은 급성독성 2등급에 해당되었다. 본 결과를 토대로 볼 때 벤즈이소시아졸리논은 생태 환경에 대한 위해성이 예측된다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.1183-1189
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• 2012

The KOrea Insecticide Exposure Model (KOIEM) was developed to facilitate ecological risk-based management of Korean insecticides. KOIEM, applied as a multimedia fate model, evaluates water, soil, air, and vegetation compartments based on three water-body types (streams, ditches, and ponds). Deltamethrin, a pyrethroid insecticide, was used to evaluate and create the model parameters. After exposure of both the stream and the ditch to deltamethrin, the KOIEM-predicted concentrations and the observed levels were in agreement. The model was also evaluated using the accuracy factor (AF), which was 4.32 and 0.35 for the stream and ditch, respectively. Ecological risk assessment was also performed to evaluate the application of KOIEM for four popular South Korean insecticides (cypermethrin, deltamethrin, diazinon, and permethrin). Despite the insecticides having low PECs in water, their risk quotients were typically above 1.0. Thus, KOIEM modification would be required in further studies to account for spatial variation.

• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• 제28권
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• pp.13.1-13.5
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• 2013

Objectives: Potential environmental risks caused by chemicals that could be released from a recycled plastic product were assessed using a screening risk assessment procedure for chemicals in recycled products. Methods: Plastic slope protection blocks manufactured from recycled plastics were chosen as model recycled products. Ecological risks caused by four model chemicals - di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), diisononyl phthalate (DINP), cadmium (Cd), and lead (Pb)-were assessed. Two exposure models were built for soil below the block and a hypothetic stream receiving runoff water. Based on the predicted no-effect concentrations for the selected chemicals and exposure scenarios, the allowable leaching rates from and the allowable contents in the recycled plastic blocks were also derived. Results: Environmental risks posed by slope protection blocks were much higher in the soil compartment than in the hypothetic stream. The allowable concentrations in leachate were $1.0{\times}10^{-4}$, $1.2{\times}10^{-5}$, $9.5{\times}10^{-3}$, and $5.3{\times}10^{-3}mg/L$ for DEHP, DINP, Cd, and Pb, respectively. The allowable contents in the recycled products were $5.2{\times}10^{-3}$, $6.0{\times}10^{-4}$, $5.0{\times}10^{-1}$, and $2.7{\times}10^{-1}mg/kg$ for DEHP, DINP, Cd, and Pb, respectively. Conclusions: A systematic ecological risk assessment approach for slope protection blocks would be useful for regulatory decisions for setting the allowable emission rates of chemical contaminants, although the method needs refinement.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.33-41
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• 2017

Purpose: Indoor air quality in residential buildings needs to be evaluated over the long term. In previous research, there has been an attempt to perform the health risk assessment of pollutants by using numerical models as a method of long-term evaluation. However, the numerical model of this precedent study has limitations that do not reflect the actual concentration distribution. Therefore, this study introduces the CRPS index, constructs a numerical model that can reflect the concentration distribution, and then presents a more accurate health risk assessment method using it. At this time, the pollutants are toluene, which is a typical material released from building materials. Method: CRPS index was applied to existing numerical model to reflect concentration distribution. This was used to calculate concentrations at adult breathing area and to use them for exposure assessment in a health risk assessment. After that, we entered adult data and conducted a health risk assessment of toluene. Results: The non-carcinogenic risk of toluene was calculated to be 0.0060. This is 5% smaller than the existing numerical model, meaning that it is more accurate to predict the pollutant risks. This value is also lower than the US EPA reference value of 1. Therefore, under the conditions of this study, long-term exposure of adults to toluene has no impact on health.

• 환경생물
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.193-200
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• 2016

해산로티퍼 (Brachionus plicatilis)의 생존율 및 개체군 성장률을 사용하여 중금속 As, Cr 및 Pb에 대한 독성평가를 수행하였다. 중금속에 24시간 노출한 생존율은 As와 Cr의 30과 $150mg\;L^{-1}$ 농도에서 급격한 감소가 시작되어 농도의존적으로 감소하였으나, Pb에서는 영향이 나타나지 않았다. 중금 속에 72시간 노출한 개체군 성장률은 As, Cr 및 Pb의 5, 25 및 $50mg\;L^{-1}$ 농도에서 급격한 감소가 시작되어, 3종 중금속에서 모두 농도의존적으로 감소하는 경향을 보였다. As, Cr 및 Pb에 노출된 개체군 성장률의 $EC_{50}$ 값은 각각 12.98, 82.34 및 $110.14mg\;L^{-1}$이고 독성의 세기는 As>Cr>Pb로 생존율과 동일하였다. 또한 As, Cr 및 Pb에 대한 개체군 성장률의 NOEC는 각각 1, 12.5 및 $50mg\;L^{-1}$, LOEC는 각각 5, 25 및 $50mg\;L^{-1}$로 나타났다. 해양환경에서 각각의 LOEC 이상의 농도는 B. plicatilis에게 독성영향을 미칠 수 있는 농도로 판단되며, NOEC와 $EC_{50}$ 값은 WET test를 위한 혼합독성과 해양생태계 내 중금속독성에 대한 가이드라인으로 적절하게 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국잡초학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.73-79
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• 1997

Governments and industry have a growing interest in the harmonization of environmental test methods and risk assessment procedures. OECD are currently producing a set of harmonised test guidelines for studying the environmental fate and ecological effects of pesticides. FAO has published an environmental risk assessment procedure. This procedure, which is similar to those used in US and Europe, is based on calculating the ratio of the toxicity of a pesticide to indicator organisms to their level of exposure to the pesticide. The exposure depends on both the concentration of the pesticide and its bioavailability. Ratios which indicate a pesticide will not produce a harmful effect have been established using ecological field studies. Examples are presented for assessing the risk to aquatic ecosystems, earthworms and honeybees. Long-term field studies(up to 20 years) have also shown that pesticides can be used indefinitely without harming soil fertility. Herbicides can be used to avoid the ecologically damaging effects of using soil cultivations excessively for weed control.

• 환경생물
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.333-342
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 다환방향족탄화수소(PAHs) 중, phenanthrene이 둥근성게(Mesocentrotus nudus)와 말똥성게(Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus)의 수정률과 정상유생 발생률에 미치는 독성 효과를 확인하고자 하였다. H. pulcherrimus와 M. nudus의 모체에서 각각 획득한 정자와, 인공수정을 통하여 획득된 수정란을 phenanthrene에 노출시킨 후, 수정률과 정상배아 발생률을 측정하였다. 시험결과, H. pulcherrimus와 M. nudus의 수정률과 정상배아 발생률은, 농도 의존적으로 감소하였으며, H. pulcherrimus와 M. nudus의 수정률에 대한 EC₅₀값은 17.48 mg L^-1과 16.21 mg L^-1이었고, 정상배아 발생률의 EC₅₀값은 각각 2.99mgL^-1과 0.36mgL^-1인 것으로 나타났다. 연구결과, H. pulcherrimus는 M. nudus보다 phenanthrene 노출에 대하여 더 민감하게 반응하는 것으로 나타났으며, 정상배아 발생률은 수정률에 비하여 더 민감한 종말점인 것으로 나타났다. 따라서, phenanthrene은 두 종의 성게 정자의 수정과 초기발달 단계를 포함한, 연안에 서식하는 다양한 생물종에 영향을 미치는 것으로 보여진다. 그중, 두 종의 성게는 다른 연안 서식 생물 종들에 비하여, Phenanthrene의 bio-monitoring을 위한 민감한 생물종일 수 있다고 사료된다. 또한, 본 연구를 통하여 도출된 결과와 독성값(NOEC, LOEC 및 EC₅₀)은 Phenanthrene을 포함한 PAHs의 환경 기준농도 설정을 위한 유용한 기초 자료로 활용될 수 있다.

• 한국해양생명과학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2020

Irgarol과 diuron에 각각 노출된 해산규조류(Skeletonema costatum)의 개체군 성장률(r)을 분석하여 독성평가를 실시하였다. S. costatum을 irgarol (0, 0.31, 0.63, 1.25, 2.5, 5 ㎍ l^-1)과 diuron (0,7.81, 15.63, 31.25, 62.5, 125 ㎍ l^-1)에 각각 96시간 노출하여 r을 계산하였고, 대조구의 r은 0.04 이상으로 시험기준에 적합하였다. S. costatum의 r은 irgarol에서 0.63 ㎍ l^-1, diuron은 15.63 ㎍ l^-1 이상에서 대조구 대비 유의하게 감소하기 시작하여 irgarol과 diuron의 농도가 증가할수록 r이 감소하는 농도의존적인 반응을 나타냈고, 시험 최고농도 5와 125 ㎍ l^-1에서 r이 대조구 대비 80% 이상 감소하였다. Irgarol과 diuron에 노출시킨 S. costatum r의 반수영향농도(EC₅₀)는 1.09, 45.45 ㎍ l^-1, 무영향농도(NOEC)는 0.31, 7.81 ㎍ l^-1, 최소영향농도(LOEC)는 0.63, 15.63 ㎍ l^-1으로 나타났으며, EC₅₀ 기준으로 irgarol이 diuron보다 독성이 큰 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구결과로 해양생태계에서 Irgarol과 diuron의 농도가 0.63과 15.63 ㎍ l^-1 이상이 되면, 해산 규조류 S. costatum의 r은 독성영향을 받을 것으로 판단된다. 또한, 독성 값으로 제시된 결과들은 irgarol과 diuron의 기준농도 설정을 위한 기초자료로 유용하게 활용될 것이다.

• 한국환경독성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국환경독성학회 2003년도 추계국제학술대회
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• pp.81-88
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• 2003