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A Conceptual Study of Sustainable City Indicators: with Priority Given to Environmental Indicators (도시지속성지표 구축을 위한 개념적 연구: 환경적 지속성지표를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Dong-Kun;Jeon, Seong-Woo
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.33-45
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    • 1997
  • Nowadays, the environmental conservation has become a hot issue. Also the sustainable city issue is recognized as one of the most important tasks to be solved urgently for urban development. Therefore, the current indicator for sustainable city has been analyzed only as a segment of the environmental indicator which is one kind of branch of social indicator. However, considering the degree of pollution and heightened concern, it is time to develop a new and improved framework for the analysis of the sustainable city indicator. This study aims for the development of sustainable city indicator and the examination of practical method for the use of them. Urban sustainable city indicators are based on the "Pressure-State-Response (PSR) framework" which has been adopted by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The indicators suggested in this study is composed of the following categories: 1. Indicators of natural environment itself, such as land structure (available land use index etc.), bio-species (bio-diversity index etc.), environment resources (water quantity index etc.) 2. Indicators of relationship between man and environment, such as sustainability of using material (recycle of water index etc.), pressure size (pressure index on air etc.), effort of prevention (environmental basic facility index, etc.) 3. Indicators of environmental state, such as landscape and culture (historical & cultural index etc.), environmental pollution (air pollution index etc.) A sustainable city environment is necessary and obtainable, yet its realization seems to be difficult. The urban pollution problems have become more serious than ever before thus requiring much interest. Therefore, this kind of study is meaningful for the establishment of policy objective, and the development and management environmentally sound and sustainable cities.

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Teaching Strategy for Effective Environment Education through Inquiry Approach (탐구학습을 통한 효율적인 환경교육 지도 방안)

  • 최경희
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.114-126
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this study is to identify the theory of inquiry and to suggest an example of teaching/learning strategy through inquiry for effective environmental education. This study was based on the review of literature in the area of background of inquiry, inquiry in school subjects-social science, science, and environment and activities for inquiry. The teaching/learning strategy which was developed in this study included several inquiry activities focusing on recent social issue. And it can be used in environmental class.

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Biocultural diversity and traditional ecological knowledge in island regions of Southwestern Korea

  • Hong, Sun-Kee
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.137-147
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    • 2011
  • In 2009, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recognized the unique outstanding ecosystem biodiversity and distinct ecocultural values of the Shinan Dadohae Biosphere Reserve in the island region. The Dadohae area, which has been sustainably conserved for scores of years, boasts not only a unique ecosystem, but also has residents with a wide range of traditional ecological knowledge. In terms of understanding the soundness of the ecosystem network known as the landscape system, the recent expansion of environmental development has served to heighten the degree of consideration given not only to biodiversity, which has long been used as an indicator to assess ecosystem soundness, but also to assess cultural diversity. Man has used the surrounding landscape and living organisms as his life resources since the beginning. Moreover, whenever necessary, man has developed new species through cultivation. Biodiversity became a foundation that facilitated establishing cultural diversity such as food and housing. Such ecological knowledge has been conveyed not only to adjacent regions, but also at the international level. The recent rapid changes in the Dadohae area island ecosystem caused by the transformation of fishing grounds by such factors as climate change, excess human activities, and marine pollution, is an epoch event in environmental history that shows that the balance between man and nature has become skewed. Furthermore, this issue has moved beyond the biodiversity and landscape diversity level to become an issue that should be addressed at the cultural diversity level. To this end, the time has come to pay close attention to this issue.

A Study on the Development School Agenda 21 to Activate Environmental Education (학교 환경교육을 활성화시키기 위한 학교의제 21 개발 연구)

  • Park, Ha-Na;Nam, Young-Sook
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.18 no.2 s.27
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    • pp.23-30
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to develop School Agenda 21 to activate environmental education at schools. In detail, this study is intended to develop operating procedures, major issue areas or domains, and instructions on the preparation for School Agenda 21. School Agenda 21 means the action plan which students, teachers, parents, and other concerned parties (including office of education, local municipal bodies, and NGOs) write under agreement with respect to their respective roles in order to activate environmental educations oriented toward sustainable development. The results of this study are as follow. First, the operating procedures for School Agenda 21 consist of seven steps; organization, diagnosis of problems, setup of targets or objectives, development of codes of behavior, system establishment, practices and reviews, and evaluation and feedbacks. Second, major issue areas for School Agenda 21 are classified into six; school management, class operation, independent subject activity, separate subject activity, non-subject activity, and external relations of school. Third, instructions of the preparation of School Agenda 21 address these 10 concepts; balance, unification, continuity, daily routine, linkage, environmental justice, participation, peculiarity of schools and classes, regional peculiarity, and concreteness, which consider 7 principles for environmental education, levels of learners, regional features, and concreteness. School Agenda 21 developed from this study converts existing environmental education toward sustainable development environmental education, and developed for the purpose to activate school environmental education, but ultimate purpose of this study are realizing sustainable society, sustainable future to realize education for sustainable development. So School Agenda 21 is expected to important performance way making possible Local Agenda 21, National Agenda 21, Agenda 21 as if education, public recognition and discipline contents of the 36 chapter of Agenda 21.

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Trends Analysis of Environmental Design Studies in School - Focused on studies since 2010 - (학교 환경 디자인 연구 동향 분석 - 2010년 이후 연구를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Ye-Jin;Yang, Hye-Jin;Lee, Kyung-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.69-78
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    • 2020
  • Interest in the school environment design is increasing as the project to restructure school space and to become common in school through smart devices. However, no research has been presented on the current status of studies on school environmental design, and the need for analysis of recent research trends in school environmental design is required. In response, this study aims to provide basic data on school environmental design by analysing the trends of domestic studies of school environmental design since 2010 and to present the direction of research on future school environmental design. A total of 312 papers related to school architecture and spatial design are set for study in the results of academic information search on school environmental design. Based on this, frequency analysis and cross-sectional analysis are conducted based on the classification table according to the year of issue, research subject, research purpose, and research method. The statistical significance of the research subjects was secured in accordance with the year of issue and subject to study, and accordingly the key research key words were derived. It is meaningful that through this study, the current status of school environmental design research over the last 10 years can be analyzed and the direction for the future school environmental design research has been suggested.

Two-stage layout-size optimization method for prow stiffeners

  • Liu, Zhijun;Cho, Shingo;Takezawa, Akihiro;Zhang, Xiaopeng;Kitamura, Mitsuru
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.44-51
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    • 2019
  • Designing sophisticate ship structures that satisfy several design criteria simultaneously with minimum weight and cost is an important engineering issue. For a ship structure composed of a shell and stiffeners, this issue is more serious because their mutual effect has to be addressed. In this study, a two-stage optimization method is proposed for the conceptual design of stiffeners in a ship's prow. In the first stage, a topology optimization method is used to determine a potential stiffener distribution based on the optimal results, whereupon stiffeners are constructed according to stiffener generative theory and the material distribution. In the second stage, size optimization is conducted to optimize the plate and stiffener sections simultaneously based on a parametric model. A final analysis model of the ship-prow structure is presented to assess the validity of this method. The analysis results show that the two-stage optimization method is effective for stiffener conceptual design, which provides a reference for designing actual stiffeners for ship hulls.

Economic Feasibility of MicroGrid on the Environmental Cost and Operation Type (환경비용 및 운용방식에 따른 MicroGrid 경제성 분석)

  • Park, Jung-Sung;Shin, Hye-Kyeong;Lee, Duck-Su;Choi, In-Sun;Choi, Young-Jun
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.57 no.10
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    • pp.1738-1743
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    • 2008
  • Environmental issue is one of the key factors to industry area using fossil fuels, because it accelerates the global warming. So it is supposed to reduce greenhouse gases around the developed nations of the world at times go. This issue is especially for the power industry. Under this background, MicroGrid system that consists of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) system, such as natural power system (wind, solar) and fuel-cell, co-generation, also known as CHP (Combined heat and power), has been developed greatly during the last 10 years. This paper adopts optimal model using GAMS to develop methods for conducting an integrated assessment of MicroGrid system.

Improvements Resulting from Policy Changes in Recycling Food Wastes (음식물류폐기물의 자원화정책 변화에 따른 개선효과)

  • Ahn, Sang-Seon
    • Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.65-73
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    • 2005
  • After the introduction of Volume-based Waste Fee System for municipal wastes, the disposal of food wastes became an issue an issue in society. Concerted efforts among government agencies have been made to manage food wastes separately from municipal wastes. For example, the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and the Ministry of Health and Welfare established the '5-year('98-'02) Basic Plan for Recycling Food Wastes' in September 1998. Also changes in the waste disposal system has been sought, aiming at the Resource-circulating Society.

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