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The Effect of Modifying and Applying Waste Management Program on Environmental Sensitivity and Environmental Conservation Behavior (폐기물 관리 프로그램의 구안과 적용이 환경 감수성과 환경보전 행동에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Jung-Hee;Nam, Young-Sook
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.18 no.3 s.28
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    • pp.1-18
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    • 2005
  • In the sustainable waste management, the necessity of environmental education which improves acquisition of the knowledge, attitudes and values for the environment is being emphasized to help students make environmentally desirable decision and promote responsible environmental behavior. However, the environmental education in high schools, as a whole, would be susceptible to many problems caused by tile educational administration focusing only on the college entrance examination. Therefore, this study modifies and applies a program using four teaching/learning methods (Investigation study, Internet-based learning, Field work, Issue analysis study) which deals with the sustainable waste management as the learning subject for the environmental education, and tries to find its effects on the students' environmental sensitivity and environmental conservation behavior in high schools. The main results of this study are summarized as fellows. First, the waste management program had little influence on the environmental sensitivity of experimental groups, while it had positive effect on their improvement of the environmental conservation behavior. Second, there were little meaningful effect on general environmental conservation behavior, but there were some significant results to environmental conservation behavior related to the sustainable waste management. In addition, positive results were found in ecomanagement and consumerism, whereas there were no meaningful results about in persuasion and legal action, which were sub-domains of the waste management program. Among the waste management programs, the school waste investigation study had the most positive effect on the students' recognition and solution of environmental problems as well as improvement of environmental conservation behavior. The easiest one of the four teaching/learning methods was the Internet-based learning, while the most difficult one of them was the issue analysis study. Consequently, in order to achieve the goals of the environmental education in the academic field, there has to be selected the most suitable one of the teaching/learning methods and to be applied to the class, according to the detailed objectives and loaming contents for the environmental education.

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A Study on the Low Impact Development Infiltration Treebox for Environment Friendiy pedestrian (친환경적 보행도로 조성을 위한 저영향개발 침투화분에 관한 기초연구)

  • Yeom, Sung-Jin
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.24 no.9
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    • pp.1211-1220
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    • 2015
  • Soil is the most important factor in natural environment for bio-diversity. Urbanization and development of city devastate urban soil by the fraternization of green network and run off pollution. In these facts, preservation of soil is the main issue in maintain of quality urban environment. In order to handle this issue, the gold network that link fragment soil patches is considered in maintain quality soil. This study researched the infiltration Treebox design technique based on the Low Impact Development. This technique suggest reduction of impervious area of the soil due to urbanization. The main concept of this study is encourage more permeable surfaces in urban area by using a infiltration planter. The function of the planter is hold run off as much as possible from intensive rainfall, and utilizes it in drought season. Also, this planter provides fertile soil for organism habitat by keeping appropriate moisture supplying.

A Study on Active Implementations of Remanufacturing Industry in Korea (국내 리매뉴팩쳐링 산업의 활성화 방안에 관한 연구)

  • 김현수;한대희
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.23 no.59
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    • pp.105-118
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    • 2000
  • The rise in population and the increase of urbanization and industrial growth has resulted in an ever-increasing volume of municipal solid waste that must be regularly collected, transported, and ultimately disposed of. Therefore, over the last decade the public, commercial and legislative awareness of environmental issues has been increased dramatically on earth particularly some industrial countries which has a shortage of landfill capacity. A quality, cost and delivery lead-time are usually considered as the competitive factors for each industry. However, the concepts of environmental issue are emerging common terms and concerns more seriously. More attention than ever is being focused on the recycling and source reduction techniques to reduce the total volume of waste. Unfortunately, however, a shortage of landfill capacity and increasing disposal cost requests a fundamental solution about the environmental issue. That is the remanufacturing which allow manufacturers to minimize waste, production cost and to turn end-of-life product into a profitable product. The objectives of this research were to growth the remanufacturing system by suggesting issues and implementation methods for the remanufacturing. In order to accomplish these objectives, we introduced backgrounds of appearance and benefits of the remanufacturing.

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Environmental tobacco smoke and childhood asthma

  • Song, Dae Jin
    • Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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    • v.53 no.2
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    • pp.121-128
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    • 2010
  • In recent years, environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has become an important worldwide public health issue. Children are particularly vulnerable to ETS because they are still developing. ETS exposure causes a wide range of adverse health effects on childhood asthma. There is convincing evidence that ETS exposure is causally associated with an increased prevalence of asthma, increased severity of asthma and worsening asthma control in children who already have the disease, even though a causal relationship with asthma onset is not yet established for asthma incidence. Mechanisms underlying these adverse effects of ETS are not clearly elucidated but e studies on this issue suggest that genetic susceptibility, impaired lung function, and augmented airway inflammation and remodeling may be involved. Children with asthma are just as likely to be exposed to ETS as children in general and there is no risk-free level of exposure. Therefore, providing a smoke-free environment may be of particular importance to the asthmatic children exposed to ETS who have adverse asthma outcomes, as well as to children with genetic susceptibility who are at increased risk of developing asthma upon exposure to ETS in early childhood.

An Analysis of Effective Factors in Public Awareness Campaigns through Facebook: Focus on Fine Dust Issues

  • Nguyen, Thanh-Mai;Jo, Sam-sup
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.35-45
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    • 2021
  • In this study, we analyzed the factors that affect public awareness campaigns on social media platforms and developed an integrated model for measuring the persuasiveness of environmental social media campaigns. A survey questionnaire was created and distributed on Facebook with the goal of reaching individuals in their 20s and 40s in Vietnam, and 395 valid replies were gathered. The findings showed that the STOPS was reconfirmed as a suitable theoretical framework for analyzing the public's behaviour intention to conduct information related to the issue of fine dust, especially on social media. Furthermore, it also showed that social media efficacy has a moderating effect on the relationship between public's situational recognition and informational behaviour intention. This suggested that through social media platforms, personal characteristics play a vital part in developing effective environmental campaigns. Implications for both theory and practice were discussed.

Foreword to the Special Issue on the 2017 Environmental Spatial Information Research Papers Competition (2017 '친(親)환경도우미' 환경공간정보 우수논문 공모전)

  • Kim, Shin-yup;Lee, Woo-Kyun;Kim, Sang-Wan;Yoon, Jeong-Ho;Lee, Hoonyol;Park, No-Wook
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.33 no.6_2
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    • pp.1041-1046
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    • 2017
  • The Ministry of Environment(ME) has been producing and providing various environmental spatial information including land-cover maps in order to effectively cope with environmental issues. With the advent of the 4th industrial revolution era and the frequent occurrence of environmental disasters, the necessity of combining the environmental spatial information with the newest technology is increasing. By considering the increased necessity, the ME and the Korean Society of Remote Sensing held the 2017 Environmental Spatial Information Research Paper Competition with the aim of both discovering new application fields of environmental spatial information and supporting outstanding researchers. The outstanding 9 papers were finally selected after reviewing 51 papers submitted for the competition. This special issue includes the 9 papers that address advanced methodologies and application results based on environmental spatial information, as well as recent environmental issues. We expect the methodologies and applications presented in this special issue would be a reference anthology for users of environmental spatial information.

An Empirical Study on Public Child Care Center for the Necessity of the Eco-Environmental Space (친환경공간의 필요성에 따른 구립 어린이집의 사례 연구)

  • Han, Hae-Ryon;Park, Young-Ki
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.91-94
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    • 2007
  • The change of modern society arouse the issue of the family structure and the demand of upbringing. According to the issue, the need of the upbringing is the big interest in society. This study is on the necessity of the eco-environmental space in public child care center. The study progressed with the result of the prior study, the demand of the parents of students in eco-environmental space in child care center. The results of the study are first, the natural light source can import in sky light, side light and atrium in child care center. Second, the indoor garden and interior plants would give the natural feelings. Third, the ponds and waterways in indoor and outdoor would give the empirical experiences. And the last, the stone and clay would give the tender feelings in interior and the sand play in outdoor would give the activities. This study would be the foundation on the upcoming study of the needs of the eco-environmental spaces in child facilities.

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Valuation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Using National Forest Inventory Data (국가산림정보를 활용한 생물다양성 및 생태서비스 가치평가 연구)

  • Jung, Da Jung;Kang, Kyung Ho;Heo, Joon;Sohn, Min Soo;Kim, Hong Suk
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.615-625
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    • 2011
  • As United Nation (UN) declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity, the biodiversity issue has gained much attention since the issue of climate changes. Also, related researches for protecting and conserving the biodiversity are accompanied in the world. In this study, National Ecology Information is obtained from Ministry of Environment and Korea Forest Service and is utilized to valuate biodiversity and ecosystem services in Pyeongchang, Kangwon-do in Korea. For this, they are categorized into direct- or indirect-use value and nonuse value. Research results show that the biodiversity and ecosystem services in Pyeongchang are assessed as 2 trillion and 460 billion won. From this research, we evaluate the economic value of biodiversity and ecosystem services, and also suggest the possibility to utilize them as basic information for a decision making to establish the biodiversity protection plan.

An Application of Affective-Cognitive Ambivalence Theory in Environmental Risk Attitude: The Case Study of Marion County, Ohio in the U.S.

  • Lee, Jae-Young;Lee, Hyon-Yong;Fortner, Rosanne W.
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.635-642
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    • 2007
  • Using data from 132 telephone interviewees, we examined the role of affective-cognitive ambivalence in forming overall attitude and behavior toward toxic chemical and radioactive waste issues in Marion, Ohio in the U.S. In order to compare attitudinal preference, participants were divided into four A-C groups: action-group (Affective+/Cognitive+), detached-group (A-/C+), concerned-group (A+/C-), and inaction-group (A-/C-). Affective and cognitive components interacted, producing redundant influences on overall attitudes and judgments as frequently observed and postulated in previous attitude studies. The results showed that the action-group who were feeling unsafe and believed that environmental accidents had happened or are happening in Marion were less willing to move to the area than other three groups who were feeling safe and/or doubted reports of contamination and its relation with leukemia. Affective and cognitive components were found to have redundant influences on overall attitude. It was also observed that affective-cognitive ambivalence theory has a great potential for explaining the mechanism by which people form attitudes, especially when people have moderate or positive feelings (e.g. sympathy or eagerness for resources) toward the objects and/or when uncertainty is a major feature of environmental issue under consideration (e.g. global climate change).

The Effects of Social Environmental Issue on the Establishment of Internal & External Network and Sustainable Environmental Management Performance (사회적 환경이슈화가 기업의 내·외부 네트워크구축 및 지속가능 환경경영성과에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Nam Hong;Kim, Dae Yong
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.78-85
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    • 2020
  • This study aims to clarify the impact of environmental issues on sustainable environmental management performance through the establishment of internal and external networks and environmental management activities. As a result of analyzing 163 final collected data of companies, social environmental issues did not have a significant effect on the internal sharing system, but they had a significant positive effect on both regulatory response and cooperation network establishment. In addition, the regulatory response to the environment has a significant effect on both the internal sharing system, cooperation network establishment, and environmental management activities. Lastly, environmental management activities have a significant impact on sustainable environmental management performance, indicating that environmental issues are leading to environmental management activities and performance by promoting sustainable growth of companies.