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Study on the Pollution-heaven Hypothesis Focusing on Pollution-Intensive Industries (환경규제 강화로 인한 산업재배치 효과에 관한 연구 -오염다배출산업을 중심으로-)

  • Lho, Sangwhan
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.121-144
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study is to test pollution-heaven hypothesis on the korean pollution-intensive industries, that is, textile and clothing, petrochemical and primary metal industry. The empirical study examines that foreign direct investment(FDI) of korean pollution-intensive industries regresses on couple of exogenous variables and the environmental regulation on FDI. As the environmental regulation is not directly observed, it uses $CO_2$ emissions as the pollutant. The results of the study show that the environmental regulation in a host country is an insignificant determinant of FDI for the korean polluting industries. That is, they do not support Leonard (1988), Xing and Kolstad (2000) that the hypothesis is a significant for heavily polluting industries.

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Disposal Consciousness of Foods Waste and Meal Management Behavior in Relation to Environmental Conservation of Housewives (주부의 환경보전을 위한 음식물 쓰레기의 처리의식 및 식생활 관리행동)

  • 송요숙
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.36 no.12
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    • pp.191-200
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    • 1998
  • The purpose of this study were to examine the disposal consciousness of foods waste and meal management behavior related to environmental conservation, and to find out the ways to improve the disposal of foods waste. Data were collected from questionaire with 786 housewives who live in Chonbuk area. About 45% of foods waste consisted of vegetables and fruits. The levels of cooking(use) and idsposal behavior among meal management behavior were relatively high, but food preparation(buy) score was low. These results suggested that menu planning before food preparation, and buying some cleaned and trimmed foods in the market should be recommennded to reduce the foods waste. The levels of meal management behavior did not show any significant associaations with disposal consciousness of foods waste but were positively correlated to environmental conciousness. It could be thought that the effort of government administration to reduce and reuse of foods waste is needed to improve the desirable disposal behavior of that, and the well programmed enviornmental education should be more required and practical than increase the environmental conciousness.

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Consumer Use and Awareness of Refill Products Examined in Perspective of Environmental Protection (환경보호 측면에서 본 리필제품의 소비자이용 및 소비자인지에 관한 연구)

  • 전윤숙
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.15-30
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    • 1998
  • The purpose of this study was to understand consumer use and awareness of refill-products in perspective of environmental protections. One hundread seventy-four married women living around Cheongju-city were selected because married women are the major buyers of refill-procucts. The major findings were as follows: 1) While detergents refill-products were found to be the most favorable one, cosmetics refill-products were found to be the worst favorable. 2) Married women complained different quality and quantity between refill-products and nonrefill-products in general. 3) Price was the most important reason to use refill-products rather than environmental protection. 4)The more respondents had refill-products information, the more respondents used refill-proeucts 5) The level of consumer awareness of refill products examined in perspective of enviornmental protection was found to be very high(3.3/4). 6)There was no significant relatioships between consumer use and awareness of refill-products examined in perspective of environmental protection.

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Environmentally Conscious Consumer Behavior and Support on the Environmental Regulation (환경의식적 소비자행동과 환경규제방안에 대한 지지도)

  • 민현선
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.107-121
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    • 1996
  • The purpose of this study was (1) to investigate the level of environmentally conscious consumer behavior and support on the environmental regulation, and (2) to identify the influencing variables and causal relationship. Data were collected from questionnares with 1050 male and female consumers who were in the age of 20∼49 and residents of 6 cities(Seoul, Pusan, Taegu, Kwangju, Taejoen, Inchon). The major findings were as follows: (1) The level of environmentally conscious behavior was relatively high and differed significantly according to sex, age, education and marital status. (2) The level of support on the environmental regulation measures, consumers' support on the company regulation measures was most strong. (4) Sex, age, marital status, environment awareness and environmentally conscious behavior had positive effects on consumers' support on the environmental regulation directly and indirectly.

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환경보전 정책에 관한 제 방법의 상대적 효율성 연구 - 판매가능한 배출허용권제도를 중심으로 -

  • Lee, Seon;No, Gong-Gyun;Lee, Jae-Geun
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.115-149
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    • 1991
  • In evaluating current environmental protection policy, economists often note that current regulations are more costly than necessary to meet environmental quality standards. While the a priori case can be made that current regulatory approaches entail higher-than-necessary costs to attain environmental standards, there is relatively little empirical evidence to support this claim in Korea. The purpose of this analysis is to supply some of the missing evidence by presenting the results of one study that assesses some of the potential savings associated with implementing economic, rather than command-and-control regulatory approaches to abate one type of air pollution in one region, in Korea, Specifically, the analysis examine the costs of meeting a long-term standard for TSP under the alternative control strategies for stationary sources of TSP in Ulsan Industrial Complex region. The alternative strategies that are considered are current command-and-control and various marketable permit designs. The analysis shows that the most efficient policy of emissions control is economic approaches, supporting results of previous empirical studies conducted in other countries.

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Marketing Knowledge Management and Innovation Performance: Examining the Moderating Role of Business Environmental Volatility

  • Li, Yinnan;Kim, Jongsung;Lee, Young Woo
    • Asia Marketing Journal
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.51-69
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    • 2020
  • This study empirically examines the link between marketing knowledge management and innovation performance focusing on the moderating role of business environmental volatility. We define marketing knowledge management as the integration of knowledge generation, knowledge dissemination and knowledge storage. Using a unique data set that consists of 439 employees at 156 firms in China, we find that knowledge dissemination and knowledge storage have a positive effect on innovation performance. Also found is the negative moderating effect of business environmental volatility on innovation performance. Our findings suggest that firms should strengthen their marketing knowledge management to improve innovation performance and stay flexible to cope with the ever-changing and often volatile market environments.

System dynamic modeling and scenario simulation on Beijing industrial carbon emissions

  • Wen, Lei;Bai, Lu;Zhang, Ernv
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.355-364
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    • 2016
  • Beijing, as a cradle of modern industry and the third largest metropolitan area in China, faces more responsibilities to adjust industrial structure and mitigate carbon emissions. The purpose of this study is aimed at predicting and comparing industrial carbon emissions of Beijing in ten scenarios under different policy focus, and then providing emission-cutting recommendations. In views of various scenarios issues, system dynamics has been applied to predict and simulate. To begin with, the model has been established following the step of causal loop diagram and stock flow diagram. This paper decomposes scenarios factors into energy structure, high energy consumption enterprises and growth rate of industrial output. The prediction and scenario simulation results shows that energy structure, carbon intensity and heavy energy consumption enterprises are key factors, and multiple factors has more significant impact on industrial carbon emissions. Hence, some recommendations about low-carbon mode of Beijing industrial carbon emission have been proposed according to simulation results.

Environmental Factors and Natural Resource Stock - Atlantic Herring Case - (환경요인과 대서양 청어자원량과의 관계)

  • Cho, Jung-Hee;Gates, John M.
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.471-482
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    • 2001
  • 대서양 청어는 바닷가재 어업에 있어 주요 미끼로서 사용되어지고 있고 해양 생태계내에서 다른 어류들의 먹이로서 중요한 위치를 차지하고 있다. 그러나 해양생태계의 환경적인 요소, 즉 해수면 온도, 플랑크톤량, 서식지 해저퇴적물 상태에 따라 자원이 민감하게 영향을 받는다. 특히 미성어의 단계에서는 낮은 해수 온도에 대해 영향을 받기가 쉽다. 이 연구에서는 인공위성을 이용하여 측정된 해수면 온도와 2년생 가입자원의 상관관계를 분석하였다. 해수면 온도의 측정지역은 대서양 청어의 산란지역으로 한정하였다. 연구 결과 상관계수는 0.69로 나타났고 이는 어업자원의 변동성을 설명함에 있어 환경적인 요인이 중요하게 고려되어야 한다는 것을 의미한다.

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Environmental Regulation and Technological Constraint (환경규제와 기술제약 -한국지역제조업을 중심으로-)

  • Kang, Sang Mok;Gim, Uhn Soon
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.345-375
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this paper is to measure the change of the production efficiency which may happen when environmental regulation incurs technological constraint in the process of production, and to compute the opportunity cost of pollution reduction with the lost products based on the change of efficiency. The patterns of production technoloy in the paper are divided into the technologies of strong disposability and weak disposabilty to grasp the effect of the technological constraint due to the environmental regulation. The endowment of the technolgical constraints in the process of production is considered to bring the greatest restriction on firm's production. When the environmental efficiencies of Korean regional manufactures were measured with linear programming model, the lost products related with the constraint of production technology that environmental regulation incurred, was average 148.1 billion dollar per year(5.87% of one year overall products) for total manufactures in 1991~1998. The ratio of the lost products for total products was spread from 0.78% to 1l.08%. The average lost products of 15 regions were changed from 4.66% to 18.35% of total products. Generally the environmental efficiency index of regional manufactures being decreased continuously since 1991, it is estimated that the environmental performance of Korean manufactures has been more and more deteriorating.

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Effects of an Early Childhood Environmental Education Program on Knowledge, Emotional Attitude, Perceived Behavior Control, and Behavioral Intention toward Environmental Pollution (유아환경교육프로그램이 환경오염에 대한 지식, 정서적 태도, 행동통제감 및 행동의도에 미치는 효과)

  • Gwon, Gi-Nam;Yoo, An-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.43 no.8 s.210
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    • pp.99-114
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    • 2005
  • The aim of this study was to estimate the effects of an early childhood environmental education program developed on the basis of relationships among preschoolers' knowledge, emotional attitude, and perceived behavior control of environmental pollution on their knowledge, emotional attitude, perceived behavior control, and behavioral intention. A total of 146 five-year-old preschoolers from eight child-care centers in Seoul and Kyoungki Province participated in this study. The following are the main results of this study. first, the higher the level of knowledge the preschoolers had, the more negative emotional attitude they displayed. Furthermore, the more negative emotional attitude they displayed, the higher the level of perceived behavior control they had. On the contrary, the relationships between knowledge and perceived behavior control varied with exposure situation to environmental pollution. Second, after the environmental education program was administered to the experimental group, the preschoolers from experimental group exhibited more knowledge, more negative emotional attitude, higher perceived behavior control and more active behavioral intention towards environmental pollution than those in the control group.