• 제목/요약/키워드: Environmental problems

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국제환경가버넌스 여건 변화와 UNEP의 역할 (UNEP's Response to the Changing Environment of International Environmental Governance)

  • 정서용
    • 환경정책연구
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    • 제3권1호
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    • pp.31-54
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    • 2004
  • This paper aims at analyzing the issues on how to improve UNEP's roles in international environmental governance context. Although UNEP has been presumed to play a leading role in addressing global environment problems, several problems (such as collective action problem, fragmentation, lack of authority and insufficient legitimacy) in its governance have led to losing its leadership to other entities such as the World Bank, OECD and CSD. While a position of changing UNEP's status to an independent international organization has not been developed enough, several efforts, which might not be sufficient to respond to the changing environment of international environmental governance, have been made to strengthen UNEP's roles in the short run. These include universal membership, strengthening the financing of UNEP, and issues concerning MEAs. Whether current efforts for enhancing UNEP's roles in international environmental governance will be successful or not, would rely on to what extent interested parties hold political wills for its reforms and how to draw a compromise on critical issues among those parties.

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환경문제 인식정도가 리버스물류 정보시스템과 성과에 미치는 영향 (Effects of Environmental Problems on the Logistics Information System and Reverse Logistics Performance)

  • 김제숭;박석하
    • 대한안전경영과학회지
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    • 제10권1호
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    • pp.129-137
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    • 2008
  • The studies on the logistics has been mainly centered on the logistics information system and logistics performance on the supply chain for the enterprise's profit making. For sustainable development, it's being required the construction of recycling-oriented system, and it's also necessary to construct the efficient system not only in forward but in reverse channel. In addition, it's required to construct information system for supporting reverse logistics smoothly. In this study of manufacturing enterprises, recognition on the environmental problems is set as the adaptation degree to the national environmental regulations and enterprise's concern to the environmental logistics, and it presents the direction through analyzing the effects of such environmental logistics recognition on reverse logistics information system and performance. In order to achieve these aims, it was performed through combining philological and positive studies.

의과대학생의 정신건강 증진을 위한 지원의 틀과 방안 (A Comprehensive Framework and Approaches for Enhancing Mental Health in Medical Students)

  • 김민경;김혜원
    • 의학교육논단
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    • 제24권3호
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    • pp.180-192
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    • 2022
  • Research suggests that medical students frequently experience mental health problems such as stress, burnout, and depression, which may, in turn, affect suicidal ideation and behaviors. Since mental health problems profoundly impact academic achievement and professionalism, it is vital to understand factors influencing students' mental health and identify strategies to provide the necessary support. Some relevant influencing factors range from the personal level, including gender, personality traits, perfectionism, and social support, to the environmental level, including the grading system, educational phases, exposure to patients' death, mistreatment, and culture of medicine. In this regard, a comprehensive mental health support system that encompasses environmental interventions, as well as personal-level support, is needed. Simultaneously, proactive approaches that address the improvement of self-care and alleviation of systemic burdens are essential, together with the predominant reactive approaches focusing on problems and deficits. Altogether, we proposed a framework for enhancing mental health constructed by four categories (personal-reactive, environmental-reactive, personal-proactive, environmental-proactive) based on the intervention level and goal of support. All four categories have important implications, and one cannot replace the other, but expanding environmental-proactive support will allow more students to learn how to pursue health independently. We expect that this comprehensive framework for enhancing mental health could expand support systems for medical students' personal and professional development.

Effects of Environment Enrichment on Behavioral Problems in Dogs with Separation Anxiety

  • Kang, Ok-Deuk
    • 한국환경과학회지
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    • 제31권2호
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    • pp.131-139
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    • 2022
  • This study aimed to evaluate the effects of four types of environmental enrichment on the improvement of companion dogs' behavioral problems due to separation anxiety. A total of 21 dogs of various breeds were included in the study. Data were collected to investigate the behaviors associated with anxiety in dogs, including vocalization, elimination, escape attempts, and destructiveness. A first stage, in which the dog and owner were together (P0), lasted 15 min, and a second stage, in which the dog and owner were separated (P1), lasted 15 min. After the dog and owner were separated (P1), the third stage (P2), during which the environment was enriched, lasted 20 min, and the fourth stage, following environment enrichment (P3), lasted 15 min. The results of the study indicated that compared to P0, the frequency of problematic behavior was highest during the 15 min following separation from the owner (P1). Following environmental enrichment, the average frequency of problematic behaviors in P2 decreased (P < 0.001) compared to P1. Environmental enrichment can also be used appropriately in the case of companion dogs, including shelter dogs or experimental dogs that use a limited kennel, and is a particularly effective means of improving the quality of life of dogs.

환경교육에 관한 초등학교 교사의 인식 조사 (Survey of Elementary School Teachers' Perceptions about Environmental Education)

  • 조병찬;류재인;정진수;김효남;박국태
    • 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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    • 제18권2호
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the environmental awareness and attitude of elementary school teachers. For this study, 100 elementary school teachers from H graduate school of education were sampled. The results of this study were summarized as follows. First, the biggest concern of environmental problems were water-pollution and garbage problems by the lack of understanding about the environment and injudicious development. Second, most teachers recognized the need for environmental education and they answered that they were doing best to teach students with the main purpose of helping them develop values of environmental preservation. Third, most environmental education was carried out during class using current events and the emphasis on garbage separation and recycling. They also showed the lack of teaching materials and field trips for environmental education. Fourth, it appeared to come from media-oriented environmental education. Most teachers mainly used newspapers and visual materials. 1'hey were obtaining knowledge and information related to environmental education through the media. Since in-service teachers' conceptions could directly effect present education, it is necessary to establish a more systematic educational system for environmental education, for in-service elementary school teachers.

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전통문화를 활용한 환경교육 프로그램이 초등학생의 환경태도에 미치는 영향 (Effects of Environmental Education Program using Traditional Culture on Elementary School Students' Environmental Attitude)

  • 김명환;김남일;박헌우
    • 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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    • 제32권3호
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    • pp.239-249
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    • 2013
  • The elementary school age is a critical period in the formation of environmental attitudes, environmental knowledge, and sensitivity. In this study, we examined how they affect environmental education programs that utilize traditional culture in the 6th grade of elementary school students' environmental attitudes. Attitudes questionnaire and activity sheets were analyzed to figure out the change in attitude of the students, we analyzed the activity sheets. As a result, the environmental education program that utilize traditional culture had a positive impact on the improvement of elementary school students' environmental attitudes. Analysis of students' Internet bulletin board posts, the amount of writing was increased. In addition, the sensitivity to the environment of the students were changed. Students, was considered not related to their environmental problems. However, after programming experience, they found that environmental problems are directly related to them.

대안교육의 눈으로 재발견하는 환경교육 (New Perspective of Environmental Education and Possibility of Alternative Education)

  • 엄은희;김종욱
    • 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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    • 제16권2호
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    • pp.29-38
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    • 2003
  • The main purpose of this study is to search a new perspective of environmental education through investigating of alternative education. Environmental education is introduced by needs of society for an effective way of solving environmental problems. But it also has a meaningfulness which is internal need of education for proposing and fostering ecological human corresponds with crisis of modernism. In spite of excessive rhetoric, vision of formal environmental education is very negative. Formal environmental education is restricted to optional course. So, its potential isn't fulfil. Education is both part of the problem and the solution. Education is proclaimed at high level as the key to a more sustainable society and yet it daily plays a part in reproducing an unsustainable society. If environmental education is to fulfil its potential as an agent of environmental problem solution, it becomes both part of the ideal and the practice of education. In this point, alternative education is a model of what environmental education ought to be. Environmental education and alternative education have a common ground in end of education and critical position to the modern education system.

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사회통계조사에 의한 대기환경 체감지수의 개발 (Development of Atmospheric Environmental Sensitivity Index by Socio-Statistical Survey)

  • 김현구;이영섭;구자문;고유나
    • 한국대기환경학회지
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    • 제22권4호
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    • pp.421-430
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    • 2006
  • This paper explores a new methodology of socio-statistical survey to classify environmental perception characteristics and to quantify atmospheric environmental sensitivity of neighboring people around a large industrial complex. In order to compensate intrinsic inclination against environmental problems, Atmospheric Environmental Sensitivity Index (AESI) is proposed as the weighted-summation of four representative questions asking the current status of the local air quality, which are chosen by the factor analysis of questionnaire. Atmospheric environmental perception is tried to be classified into interest/indifference characteristics and rational/emotional perception on environmental issues, positive/negative opinion on the solution of environmental problems. According to the chi-square cross-correlation and two-way layout analyses, it was clearly shown that environmental perception is categorized into two major groups, i.e., the positive-rational group having lower AESI and the negative-emotional group having higher AESI which means more seriously senses the status of local air quality.

가정교과에서의 환경교육 실태 및 여고생의 환경보전 행동 연구 (A Study on Girl Students′Environmental Conservation Behavior through Improved Environmental Education in Home Economics Classes)

  • 김명자;정현희
    • 한국가정과교육학회지
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 1998
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze highschool girls' concerns about environmental problems after investigating the actual state of environmental education and to suggest some fundamental changes in the Home Economics classes to improve environmental education. The sample was selected form high school girl students in Kyounggi Province between September 16 and September 26, 1996. Eight hundred twenty (820) first and second grade respondents were used. The data were analyzed by frequency, mean, percentile, factor analysis. Duncan's Multiple Range Test, and Stepwise Multiple Regression. Based on the major findings, the most influential variable was parental attitudes towards environmental conservation and problem. Next in influence was the environmental education provided in Home Economics classes. Also important were the individual student's interest in Home Economics classes, and her belief in the utility of environmental conservation in everyday life. The research conclusions are as follows: 1. We'll find how to relate efficiently the environmental education with everyday life by analyzing thoroughly the text of home economics. 2. We'll develop how to educate students parents properly because parental attitudes to wards the environmental problem have a great effect on students' behaviors. 3. We'll ceinforce environmental education by developing problems, and to motivate them to take real action in the area of environmental conservation.

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환경 위기 극복을 위한 기독교적 과제 (Christian Challenges to Overcome the Environmental Crisis)

  • 봉원영
    • 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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    • 제21권6호
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    • pp.456-465
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    • 2021
  • 최근의 한 보고서는 2020년대에 지구에게 가장 가능성이 높은 위협으로 기후 변화를 포함한 환경문제를 언급했다. 따라서 오늘날 환경문제는 단순히 어느 특정 지역이나 국가의 문제일 뿐만 아니라 미래의 문제, 그리고 우리가 현재 살고 있는 현재의 문제라는 인식이 필요하다. 기독교 내에서는 창조와 타락, 구속을 기본으로 하는 기독교 세계관을 바탕으로 환경문제에 대한 다양한 관심과 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 이러한 관심은 초기에는 주로 가톨릭 진영에서 시작되었지만, 점차적으로 세계교회협의회(WCC)를 비롯한 복음주의 기독교 진영에서도 지구적 돌봄을 기독교적 책임과 연계시키는 노력이 계속되고 있다. 이처럼 지구 돌봄에 대한 관심이 보다 확대되고 있는 시점에서 이 연구는 기독교 공동체를 향해 다음과 같이 제안했다. 첫째, 환경보호, 생태보존에서 생명신학으로의 전환이 필요하다. 둘째, 자연을 바라보는 생태학에 대한 이해의 전환이 필요하다. 셋째, 기독교적 차원에서는 세속적 환경주의와 차별화된 진정한 회복운동이 있어야 한다. 넷째, 교회는 하나님의 나라를 고대하면서도 이 땅에서 피조세계와 함께 진정한 공동체를 실현할 수 있는 사회를 구현할 수 있어야 한다.