• Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.76-102
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• 2015

Drawing upon the resource-based-view of a firm, we investigate the moderating role of operations efficiency on the link between environmental and financial performance. Extant literature has highlighted that operations efficiency is closely associated with the environmental/financial performance of firms, but no empirical study has investigated how operations efficiency affects the link between environmental and financial performance. We argue that operations efficiency could act as a moderator of this relationship. To test the hypothesized relationships, we have used available secondary quantitative UK data, namely data on the environmental/financial performance of Britain's most admired companies. By employing moderated regression analysis, we have found strong evidence for the moderating impact of operations efficiency. Our results are useful to managers in that they show that improvements in operations efficiency in a company can also help improve environmental/financial performance and vice versa.

• 한국유기농업학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.679-697
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• 2017

This study analyzes an economic efficiency of environmental friendly farm and conventional farm using the data envelopment analysis (DEA). We compare the economic efficiency of Environmental Friendly farm and Conventional farm. We also analyze the effects of some explanatory variables on allocative efficiency (AE), pure technology efficiency (PTE) and scale efficiency (SE). In the case of strawberries farm, environmental friendly farm has higher overall efficiency (OE) than conventional farm. But tomatoes farm has higher overall efficiency (OE) than conventional farm. And We measure returns to scale of farms. Most strawberries and tomatoes farms showed Increasing to Scale (IRS).

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.471-501
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• 2021

본 연구는 투입물 거리함수에 의한 메타확률 프런티어 방법을 사용하여 1998년부터 2018년까지 4개 소득그룹의 이산화탄소 기준의 환경효율성(EE)을 측정하였다. 에너지 소비가 이산화탄소 배출을 증가시키고, 노동과 자본투입을 증가하면 이산화탄소 배출을 감소시킬 것임을 보여주고 있다. 또한 그룹환경효율성(GEE: Group Environmental Efficiency), 메타환경효율성(MEE: Meta Environmental Efficiency) 및 환경격차(EGR: Environmental Gap Ratio)를 비교하였다. 결과는 GEE가 과대평가되고 MEE는 이 기간 동안 하향세를 보여주고 있다. 중하위 소득그룹의 EGR은 가장 높았다. 그리고 고소득 및 중상위 소득그룹의 MEE 및 EGR이 상대적으로 낮았다. 환경효율성을 높이려면 화석에너지를 저감하고 기준 환경 문제를 해결하는 방법이 보다 과학적이고 기술적인 방법을 찾아 필요가 있음을 시사한다.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1313-1320
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• 2011

World Business Council for Sustainable Development(WBCSD) is effort to achieve sustainable development in economic growth, environmental preservation and social development. Being this way, it is essential for developing evaluation tool which quantify to fulfill sustainable development. Eco-efficiency is one of the quantitative tools to evaluate environmental impact and economic aspect. Eco-efficiency, in general term, means creating more value of product or services with less impact to environment. It indicates as environmental impact in denominator and value of product or services in numerator. Eco-efficiency shows how much economic value reveals to unit environmental impact caused by product or service as an indicator. This study aims at developing eco-efficiency indicator of railway industry considering use stage among the entire life cycle stage of KTX and Saemaul train and also, figure out eco-efficiency value through indicator. Therethrough, it is enables to evaluate created value per environmental aspects. Since rail vehicles demands a lot of energy to transport people during use stage, the environmental impact is more significant than other lkfe cycle stages. Therefore, it quantified environmental indicator as CO2 emission and economic indicator as transportation record per a year with an annual income. This study contributes to be used as a tool for quantifying indicator of comparison evaluation in respect of rail vehicle in use stage.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.201-210
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• 2017

We investigated the effect of applied voltage and electrolyte concentration on the nitrate removal and its energy/current efficiency during the electrodialysis. The current increased as the applied voltage increased up to 30 V showing the limiting current density around 20 V. The nitrate removal efficiency (31 to 71% in 240 min) and energy consumption (11 to $77W{\cdot}h/L$) gradually increased as the applied voltage increased from 10 to 30 V. The highest current efficiency was obtained at 20 V. The increase in electrolyte concentration from 100 to 500 mM led to the dramatic increase of nitrate removal efficiency with much faster removal kinetics (100 % in 10 min).

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.121-146
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• 2008

본 연구의 목적은 OECD 국가의 환경제약을 포함한 기술효율과 생산성 상실을 추정하여 환경효율지수를 실증분석하고 국가별 지속가능 발전 정도를 비교해 보고자 함이다. 1985년부터 1999년까지의 기간 동안 OECD 20개국의 패널자료를 사용하여 쌍곡선효율척도(hyperbolic measure of productive efficiency)에 기초한 기술효율을 측정하였다. 나아가 각 국가의 환경제약으로 인한 생산성 상실률과 산출에 대한 상실정도를 계측하였다. 1985년부터 1999년 동안 OECD 각 국가들의 환경효율지수는 점차 하락하고 있는 추세를 보여준다. 일본, 독일, 프랑스 등의 국가에서 오염물 처리에 상당한 부담을 가지고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 한국은 전반적으로 환경경제효율성이 높지만 1990년대 후반에 환경효율성이 악화되었고 OECD 국가들과 비슷하게 질소산화물 처리에 대한 부담이 높았다.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.595-626
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• 2005

본 연구의 목적은 투입물 효율함수를 이용하여 한국농가의 소득계층을 대상으로 기술효율, 환경효율, 규모효율을 측정하고, Tobit 모형으로 그 결정요인을 분석하는 것이다. 본 연구는 비모수적(nonparametric) 방법에 의존하여 재화의 가격이나 최적화 행동에 관한 가정없이 투입요소와 산출량에 의존하여 기술효율을 계측한다. 생산기술은 바람직한 재화와 바람직하지 못한 오염물의 결합생산을 모형화한다. 규모불변과 강처분 하에서 평균 기술효율 수준은 0.437 이었다. 기술비효율의 원인은 순수기술비효율이 47.7%, 규모비효율은 11.3%, 환경비효율 3.2%의 순이다. 규모체증 상태에서 생산농가는 전체농가의 70%를 점유하고 규모체감 상태에서 생산농기는 전체농가의 27%에 이른다. 효율성을 결정하는 요인으로 소득계층이 높을수록 중장기 부채가 높을수록 단위면적당 질소배출량이 높을수록 기술효율은 높았고, 경지면적당 농업경영비가 높을수록 기술효율은 저하되었다. 환경효율에서는 BOD 배출량, 단위면적당 기계도입, 자본의 생산성 유의적이고 음(-)으로 나타나, 청정기술이 아닌 단순한 기계화의 확대는 환경효율을 악화시키는데 영향을 주고 있음을 시사한다.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 5th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.188-195
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• 2013

Construction operations generate a significant amount of air pollutant emissions, including carbon emissions. The environmental performance of construction operations is closely relevant to the operational efficiency of each resource employed, which indicates how efficiently each resource (e.g., construction equipment) is utilized. In this context, monitoring the operational efficiency of construction equipment provides key information in managing and improving the environmental performance and productivity of construction operations. In this paper, we report our efforts to measure the operational efficiency of construction equipment, using low-cost accelerometers. An experimental study and real-world case studies are conducted to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach. The results have shown the potential of this approach as an economically feasible means of monitoring the environmental performance of construction operations.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.478-484
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• 2006

There was no significant difference in the CADR (Clean Air Delivery Rate) between physical aerosols, NaCl and smoke, and biological aerosols, airborne MS2 virus and P. fluorescens, which implicate that the hybrid-type of air purifier, applying the unipolar ion emission and the radiant catalytic ionization, imposed identical reduction effect on both physical aerosol and bioaerosol. Ventilation decreases the efficiency of air cleaning by unipolar ionization because high ventilation diminishes the particle concentration reduction effect. The particle removal efficiency decreases with increase in the chamber volume because of the augmented ion diffusion and higher ion wall loss rate. Particle size affects the efficiency of air ionization. The efficiency is high for particles with very small diameter because reduction of charge increases with particle size. If there is no increasing supply of ions, the efficiency of air cleaning by unipolar ionization increases with respect to initial concentration of particles because of the large space charge effect at high particle concentration and amplified electric field.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.49-57
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• 2017

Purpose - In Korea, general super markets have a great impact on the market performance of traditional markets. We propose a modified two stage DEA model for evaluating the performance of traditional markets in Incheon, Korea by identifying the influence of external environmental factors including the presence of general super markets as non-discretionary variables in DEA. Research design, data, and methodology - After obtaining bias-corrected estimates of original DEA efficiency scores using the input and output data of 49 traditional markets, we regress them on several external environmental factors by bootstrap-truncated regression. Results - We obtain bias-corrected efficiency scores from the original DEA efficiency scores by bootstrap and among the five environmental factors, the residential population and the presence of general super markets or SSMs can be considered as the driving forces influencing bias-corrected efficiency scores, positively and negatively, respectively. Conclusions - When DEA efficiency scores tend to be overestimated, we need to use a biased-corrected efficiency score by bootstrap. It is important to note that the efficiency of traditional markets can be largely influenced by external environmental factors such as the presence of general super markets or SSMs that traditional markets can not control. Therefore, it is desirable to consider such environmental factors appropriately for a reasonable performance evaluation.