• 제목/요약/키워드: Environmental Management Council

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Park Management with Citizen Participation under an Initial Council Style Scheme - Case Study of Hyogo Prefectural Arimafuji Park -

  • Mari Fujimoto;Isao Nakase;Ryuko Kobayashi;Yukihiro Kadono
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture International Edition
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    • 제2호
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    • pp.206-209
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    • 2004
  • A requirement of park management is to transfer the focus from emphasizing the management of public materials to providing services to visitors. Therefore, it has become indispensable to create a scheme in which residents can take management initiative. At this time, we look at Hyogo Prefectural Arimafuji Park, which encourages citizen management participation, and try to understand their system and project contents. For an initial scheme, we identify 4 elements that promoted subjective participation in a council style scheme; 1. to begin activities at the earliest possible time before opening the park, 2. to coordinate with expert(s) who take a neutral position, 3. to have places available where participants can debate on an equal footing, and 4. to plan the project while feeding back actual results.

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Ensuring the Quality of Higher Education in the United Kingdom Using Informatization

  • Andreikova, Iryna;Moiseienko, Natalia;Boichuk, Petro;Iliichuk, Liubomyra;Fedchenko, Karina;Bezliudnyi, Oleksandr;Sopivnyk, Ruslan
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • 제22권11호
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    • pp.324-330
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    • 2022
  • The United Kingdom is known for the quality of its qualifications. There is a strict quality system with reputable bodies responsible for ensuring that high quality standards are met. In order for new qualifications to be accredited, they must meet all the requirements set out in the regulations for the quality and informatization of Education. The crucial role of the Agency for Quality Assurance of Higher Education (QAA) in the UK for creating high-quality management of higher education institutions is revealed, the influence of informatization tools on its effective mechanism as an independent entity is shown, and positive experience for the educational sector is highlighted. While the universities themselves are responsible for reviewing educational programs at the subject level, the QAA review focuses on verifying internal quality assurance, as well as systems and improvement strategies. The QAA uses a peer review process in which teams mostly consist of academic staff from other institutions to assess the quality of the institution's education. In Scotland, the team also includes an international reviewer. The student is also a member of the Scottish teams. In the UK, attention is paid to providing a cohort of experienced reviewers who can conduct high-quality monitoring and help with advice on improving education. All reviewers must complete training and have permission to participate in the review of educational programs. There are selected committees that are members of the QAA council, each of which is headed by a member of the Council or an independent person approved by the Council. Attention is drawn to the main areas of the QAA's work in the framework of environmental, social and corporate governance.

Global Trends in Mercury Management

  • Kim, Dae-Seon;Choi, Kyunghee
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • 제45권6호
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    • pp.364-373
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    • 2012
  • The United Nations Environmental Program Governing Council has regulated mercury as a global pollutant since 2001 and has been preparing the mercury convention, which will have a strongly binding force through Global Mercury Assessment, Global Mercury Partnership Activities, and establishment of the Open-Ended Working Group on Mercury. The European Union maintains an inclusive strategy on risks and contamination of mercury, and has executed the Mercury Export Ban Act since December in 2010. The US Environmental Protection Agency established the Mercury Action Plan (1998) and the Mercury Roadmap (2006) and has proposed systematic mercury management methods to reduce the health risks posed by mercury exposure. Japan, which experienced Minamata disease, aims vigorously at perfection in mercury management in several ways. In Korea, the Ministry of Environment established the Comprehensive Plan and Countermeasures for Mercury Management to prepare for the mercury convention and to reduce risks of mercury to protect public health.

Building an Integrated Governance Model and Finding Management Measures for Nonpoint Source Pollution in Watershed Management of Korea

  • Ban, Yong Un;Woo, Hye Mi;Han, Kyung Min;Baek, Jong In
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • 제18권3호
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    • pp.199-208
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    • 2013
  • This study intended to develop an integrated governance model and find measures to manage nonpoint source (NPS) pollutions in watershed management. To reach this goal, this study has analyzed NPS pollution management policies in Korea and has employed statistical methods such as expert Delphi survey, analysis of variance, and factor analysis. As a result, this study has found that the favored basic organization form was a private-public cooperative council. The necessary governance-based NPS pollution management measures determined through this study are as follows: to build collaboration mechanisms including those related to motivation provision, trust building, capacity building, and making optimal regulations; to employ financial resources based on principles such as 'polluter-pays', 'recipient-pays', and 'general-tax-source'; and to develop several programs, including system improvement, pilot and management projects, and publicity.

기초기술연구회 및 출연(연)의 혁신경영 전략 (The Managing innovation strategies for the Korea Research Council of Fundamental Science & Technology and Government Sponsored Research Institutes)

  • 이경재;황두희;정동덕;이성우;조성복
    • 한국기술혁신학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국기술혁신학회 2005년도 추계학술대회
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    • pp.228-248
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    • 2005
  • This paper suggests the concept of the innovation management. Above all it is important to make excellent application of the management for the S&T Research Council and Government Sponsored Research Institutes. This paper will discuss three critical issues that is, the first, what makes clear a point of different strategy for the organizational and the technological innovation focused organization. Second, how makes containing the environmental factors and the target of the innovation into the innovation management strategy. Third, how achieves the performance through the managing innovation. We present a modified BSC strategy in order to manage innovation and to set up a platform for sustaining to deal with the innovation.

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공공 건설현장의 친환경성 제고를 위한 현장환경관리협의회 운영 모델 (Operation Model of On-site Environmental Management Council to Enhance Eco-friendliness in Public Construction Sites)

  • 손정락;박성식;전명훈;송상훈
    • 토지주택연구
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    • 제3권4호
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    • pp.423-431
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    • 2012
  • 저탄소 녹색성장 및 친환경 트렌드는 미래 지구환경 보존의 핵심 개발지표이며, 정부도 저탄소 녹색성장 및 친환경성 제고를 국가발전의 주요지표로 설정하고 강력한 정책을 추진하고 있는 상황이다. 국내 건설산업 관련분야에서도 탄소저감 및 친환경 자재와 제품 개발, 대체에너지 개발 등에 대해서는 집중적 투자가 이루어지고 있으나, 생산단계인 건설과정에서의 저탄소 및 친환경적 노력은 미흡한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 국내 대표적 발주기관 및 환경관리 선도업체 환경관련 업무담당자와의 의견조사를 통하여 현재의 현장환경관리 실태와 문제점을 분석하고, 향후 체계적인 현장 환경관리를 위한 방안을 조사하여, 공공건설 현장의 친환성성 제고를 위한 방안의 일환으로 현장의 체계적 환경관리 활동 전개를 위한 조직 구성 및 운영 모델을 제시하였다. 본 연구와 더불어 효율적 환경관리 활동을 정착시키기 위해서는 환경관리에 대한 수행주체들의 인식전환과 전담인력 배치, 환경관리비의 현실화, 그리고 효율적 업무처리를 위한 지침수립과 환경관리 활동에 대한 평가방법 등에 대한 검토도 추가적으로 필요한 시점이다.

Managing Groundwater Resources in New Zealand to Account for Environmental Change

  • Davidson, Peter William
    • 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국수자원학회 2007년도 학술발표회 논문집
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    • pp.40-45
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    • 2007
  • Water regulators in New Zealand have recognised the need to adapt water allocation regimes and water permit conditions to reflect the likelihood of lower catchment yield on the east coast from 2030 due to climate change. Water management mechanisms to protect the environment and maintain the reliability of other water users are currently being applied or assessed in Marlborough province. These include seasonal water quota based on spring aquifer status, linking water use to environmental triggers to avoid seawater intrusion or spring depletion; and redefining water permit entitlements to account for recharge variability.

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지방의회의원들의 보건정책에 대한 인식 (The Local Council Members' Attitudes to the Health Policy)

  • 김병익;배상수;조형원
    • 보건행정학회지
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    • 제9권2호
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    • pp.55-76
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    • 1999
  • In order to understand the local council members' attitudes to the health policy, we conducted mail surveys using self-administered questionaire for 2 months(February and March. 1995). The study subjects were 2.312 local council members in Korea, but only about 11% among whom. 257 persons, responded to 2 times mail survey. This response rate revealed that the local council members was not interested in health care fields. The main results were as follows; The respondents thought that the economic and income development was most important among 15 regional policy agendas and the health care was the 5th or 7th important agenda. They. who had more health needs of and poor access to health care, tended to think that the health care was more important. They considered lobbying to and persuading the civil servants as the best method to tackle the local health care policy agenda. The respondents, who had poor access to health care facilities. tended to set the highest priority for the expansion of public and private health care resources. They expected that the election of local governor would activate the public health program more than thought that the program was implemented more actively than other region. The main opinion of respondents was that the central government had to take over planning and financing for the public health program, and the basic local government had to implment the program and budgeting. The majority of respondents agreed the private dominant medical care delivery system and nation-wide uniformed financing mechanism. Over 60% of them suggested that they were ready to suffer environmental pollution inducing health hazards for the purpose of regional economic and income development. About 75% of them favour the campaign for antismoking regardless of reducing local government's revenue from sale tax.

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BASELINE MEASUREMENTS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF FOUR CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS IN TROPICAL AUSTRALIA

  • Fell, A.;Jegatheesan, V.;Sadler, A.;Lee, S.H.
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • 제10권6호
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    • pp.316-327
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    • 2005
  • Constructed wetlands provide several benefits that are not solely limited to storm water management and are becoming common in storm water management. In this research, four recently constructed wetlands underwent in situ and laboratory water sampling to determine their efficiency in removing storm water pollutants over a 5-month period. From the sampling results, it was determined that each of the wetlands was able to reduce the concentration of pollutants in the stormwater. To aid in the assessment of the wetlands against each other, a model was developed to determine the extent of removal of stormwater pollutants over the length of the wetland. The results from this model complimented the data collected from the field. Improvements, such as increased amounts of vegetation were recommended for the wetlands with the aim of increasing the effectiveness. Further investigations into the wetlands will allow for better understanding of the wetland's performance.

EU Water Framework Directive-River Basin Management Planning in Ireland

  • Earle, R.;Almeida, G.
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • 제15권2호
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    • pp.105-109
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    • 2010
  • The European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive (WFD) (2000/60/EC) was transposed into Irish law by Statutory Instrument Nos. 722 of 2003, 413 of 2005 and 218 of 2009, which set out a new strategy and process to protect and enhance Ireland's water resources and water-dependent ecosystems. The Directive requires a novel, holistic, integrated, and iterative process to address Ireland's natural waters based on a series of six-year planning cycles. Key success factors in implementing the Directive include an in-depth and balanced treatment of the ecological, economic, institutional and cultural aspects of river basin management planning. Introducing this visionary discipline for the management of sustainable water resources requires a solemn commitment to a new mindset and an overarching monitoring and management regime which hitherto has never been attempted in Ireland. The WFD must be implemented in conjunction with a myriad of complimentary directives and associated legislation, addressing such key related topics as flood/drought management, biodiversity protection, land use planning, and water/wastewater and diffuse pollution engineering and regulation. The critical steps identified for river basin management planning under the WFD include: 1) characterization and classification of water bodies (i.e., how healthy are Irish waters?), 2) definition of significant water pressures (e.g., agriculture, forestry, septic tanks), 3) enhancement of measures for designated protected areas, 4) establishment of objectives for all surface and ground waters, and 5) integrating these critical steps into a comprehensive and coherent river basin management plan and associated programme of measures. A parallel WFD implementation programme critically depends on an effective environmental management system (EMS) approach with a plan-do-check-act cycle applied to each of the evolving six-year plans. The proactive involvement of stakeholders and the general public is a key element of this EMS approach.