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A Survey on the Use and Perception of Environmentally-friendly Organic Materials among Korean Farmers (친환경유기농자재에 대한 농업인의 사용실태 및 인식도 조사)

  • Paik, Min-Kyoung;Park, Sung-Eun;Kim, Bong-Hoe;Kim, Yong-Ki;Oh, Jin-Ah;Kim, Doo-Ho;Lee, Je-Bong
    • The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.41-49
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    • 2013
  • This study was performed to investigate the cultivation pattern and perception, such as safety awareness, of environmentally-friendly organic materials among Korean farmers. The main reason for participation of the environmentally-friendly agriculture was for the production of safe agricultural crops. Compared to small-acreage farmer were more aware about the safety of environmentally-friendly organic materials to the subjects. Accordingly, 23.6% among the respondents with environmentally-friendly agriculture certification experienced the adverse effect by using the environmentally-friendly organic materials, compared to 33.8% of among the respondent without the certification. The experienced type of adverse effects consisted mainly 'eyes itch', 'hands and feet itch' and 'fatigue'. Also, respondent experiencing the adverse effects by using the environmentally-friendly organic materials more comply with the usage standard as how to use marked in wrapping paper, compared to the respondent without experiencing the adverse effects, which indicate that the compliance with the usage standard as how to use marked in wrapping paper is closely related the experience the adverse effects. Further study should be needed for more precise investigation of comment for the farmers in order to suggest the effective improvement in terms of policy or education for their safety.

The Comparison Analysis Between Consumers and Dealers' Willingness to Purchase Environmentally Friendly Agricultural Products (친환경농산물에 대한 소비자와 유통업자의 구매의향 비교 분석)

  • Kim, Chung-Sil;Lee, Sang-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.291-306
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the difference between the consumers' willingness to purchase environmentally friendly agricultural products and the distributers. The main results are as follows; First, it appeared with the fact that the reliability of the consumer against environmentally friendly agricultural products is 50% under. So it is important to fully guarantee the certification of environmentally friendly agricultural products. Second, if the traceability and brand-name system were introduced, the consumers and dealers would more likely to purchase environmentally friendly agricultural products more than they are now. Third, it shows a significant result in certification, developing packing-materials and sale and consuming magnification intention by the t-test between consumers and dealers.

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A Case Study on the Regional Agricultural Cluster at Asan Area (지역농업 클러스터의 추진사례에 관한 연구 - 아산시 자원순환형 친환경지역농업 클러스터를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Ho
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.463-481
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    • 2009
  • Regional Agricultural Cluster(RAC) at Asan area has been formed with Purundeul farming union corporation(Purundeul) as the center from the year 2005. Originally, RAC has been proceeded by Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MFAFF) all over the nation from 2005. This RAC has helped Asan area to establish the foundation of environmentally friendly agriculture(EFA) searching for nutritional cycle. This also made jumping age turn developing age in EFA at Asan area. The number of Purundeul producer members was 386 farmers in 2008. Purundeul introduced organic livestock farming(Korean beef cattle; Hanwoo) for proceeding EFA searching for nutritional cycle in 2007, and had 719 cattle at the end of March 2009. Feedstuff materials for organic livestock is mostly produced from seeding farming by-products within Asan or the country. Asan RAC had built factories for feedstuff producing and beef processing with producers' investment.

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Analysis of Residual Organic Solvent in Environmentally-friendly Farming Materials with Headspace Method (Headspace 법을 사용한 유기농업자재 중 잔류 유기용매 분석)

  • Choi, Geun Hyoung;Kong, Seung-Heon;Park, Byung-Jun;Moon, Byeong-Cheol;Kim, Jin-Hyo
    • The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.128-132
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    • 2016
  • Volatile organic solvents are used to extract the bioactive materials from raw materials for environmentally-friendly farming materials (EFFM), but the solvent should not remain in EFFM for the safety reasons. Thus qualitative and quantitative analysis method for the solvents using Headspace-GC were evaluated. Water content depleted the detection ratio of hydrophilic solvents and disturbing the hydrophilic interaction with solvents by DMSO might be helped to increase the detection ratio (up to 715%). Surfactant concentration affected to the detection ratio (68.5-179.1%) while surfactant type was not deeply involved the solvent detection. On the other hand, matrix-matched calibration method was accepted the minimum requirements for the quantitative analysis of the solvents in EFFM.

A Case Study on Management Situations of Environment-friendly Farming of a Producers' Organization (생산자조직 단위 친환경농업 경영실태에 대한 분석)

  • Kim, Ho
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.241-254
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    • 2014
  • This case study surveyed management situations of environmentally friendly farming(EFF) producers' organization and their main activities. Farmers are aging as an average age of 55-year old and producing fruit-bearing vegetables. The EFF did not increase farmer's income, however, price and income was stabilized more than that of conventional farming because of contract farming. Farm household liabilities are caused by purchasing agricultural machinery, materials and so on. Farmers of EFF have been also cultivating conventional farming, but they don't plan much conversion intention of conventional farming into EFF owing to lack of differentiated and stable market for their EFF products. And they are guessing that EFF income will increase a little. For increasing of EFF income, they think that it is necessary to reduce production cost, produce high quality production, develop processing foods, enlarge contract farming and so on.

A Study on the Absorption Characteristics of Soil Block and Soil Plaster as Eco-Friendly Building Materials (친환경 건축재료로서의 흙벽돌과 흙미장의 흡음 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Seong Il;Chu, Mun Ki;Hwang, hey joo;Oh, yang ki
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.57-62
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    • 2007
  • Most of current building materials are made of organic compounds or at least made with chemical treatments. Though easy to use and comparatively pay less, those materials are generally not enviornmentally sound. VOC is one of harmful effects. On contrary, natural materials such as soil are usually eco-friendly, and environmentally sustainable as well if not treated in autoclaves. Acoustica materials made of such environmentally sound and sustainable could be widely used. It is aimed to prove that soil based materials could be effectively used in acoustical fields rather than the other usual materials. Experiments with various types of soil blocks and soil plaster were performed. It is proved that the soil plaster has better apsorption features than cement plaster. Soil blocks have higher absorption cofficients than soil plaster, due to the thickness, and the absorption characteristics can be controlled by the design of the blocks.

University Students' Awareness of Eco-friendly Textile Fiber (친환경 섬유소재에 대한 대학생들의 인식도 연구)

  • Lee, Sun Young;Lee, Seung Goo;Kim, Jung Hwa;Lee, Jung Soon
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.781-790
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    • 2012
  • In midst of growing interest and awareness towards sustainability and being "green", there has been increased demand for sustainable clothing. In the purpose of boosting eco-friendly textiles industry, this research was conducted by investigating environmentally-conscious clothing behavior of university students and assessing their views on eco-friendliness of fibers. Thus, their awareness on recycled polyester fiber was evaluated. The research was conducted by surveying 257 university students residing in Daejeon. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, factor analysis, and reliability analysis, using SPSS 19.0. The results were as follows. 1) The majority of the subjects answered "Disposing clothing in the clothing recycling container" to reduce environmental impact. 2) Six factors of eco-friendliness of fiber were extracted as reutilization, unfinishedness, economics, environment preservation, natural materials, and slow fashion by using factor analysis. 3) Subjects scored organic cotton as most eco-friendly among various fibers. Recycled polyester fiber was graded less sustainable than natural fiber, but more eco-friendly than artificial one. 4) In assessment of subject's awareness of recycled polyester fiber, they highly valued on resource-reutilization and economics, but less valued on its hygiene, thermal insulation and health-functionality.

Development of Environmentally Friendly Semi-Structure Poly(Ethylene/Butylene) Rubber-based Pressure Sensitive Adhesive (친환경적인 준구조용 Poly(Ethylene/Butylene) 고무수지계 점착제의 개발)

  • Hong, Soungtaek;Park, Young-Jun;Kim, Hyun-Joong;Dilger, K.
    • Journal of Adhesion and Interface
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.12-18
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    • 2006
  • Recently, as industries and technologies are increased, superior adhesives having more and more developed functions and properties have been demanded. In this article, to use the merits and viscoelastic properties of poly(ethylene/butylene) rubber resin and to supplement the demerits, semi-structure pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs) are developed. Aslo, it can be said environmentally friendly PSAs because of not use the organic solvent and not emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

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Role of Environment-friendly Design & Green Amenity in Space Design - a focus on ecology designs using green materials - (공간디자인에 있어서의 환경친화와 Green Amenity의 역할에 관한 연구 - 그린(Green Materials)을 이용한 에콜로지디자인을 중심으로 -)

  • 이정민
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.137-148
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    • 2003
  • Environment-friendly design becomes one of the main issues of the contemporary design. It has been developed with the advent of the organic view of the wend. It started as the environment-protective orientation and then enlarged its boundary including the designs which aims to revive the organic relationship between human and nature. Recent design approach in environment design emphasizes to be 'synchronized with the nature' and its basic attitude is the revival of the right relationship between man and nature. It also can be described as the design for Green Amenity. This paper researches on the concepts, types and the roles of the environmentally-friendly design. There are two basic concepts : one is environment-protective attitude and the other is the attitude which emphasizes the function of Green Amenity. This paper focuses on the latter approach. Through the analysis of the necessity and the function of the environmentally-friendly design, it aims to prove the fact that valuable human life need the design which connects human life aye with natural environment.

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A Study on Organic/Inorganic Materials Deposition Using SAW-ED System (SAW-ED 시스템을 이용한 유/무기 소재 증착에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyun Bum;Kim, Kyung Hwan;Ghayas, Siddiqi;Lim, Jong Hwan;Yang, Hyoung Chan;Choi, Kyung Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.100-108
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    • 2016
  • In various industries, many researches studies have been done in using nano thin film fabrication technology. In the field of printed electronics, various electronic devices can be fabricated using a direct printing process of on multiple functional materials. It has the advantages of low prices, environment-friendly environmentally friendly, flexibleility, large scale, mass production produced, simple process and so on. In this study, a viable thin film fabrication technology has beenwas introduced using the surface acoustic wave mechanism for thin film deposition. Fabrication of thin films using organic, inorganic and composite of organic/inorganic materials have been were analyzed through the experimental research. In this experiment, organic material MEH:PPV, inorganic material ZnO and composite material MEH:PPV/ZnO have been depo sited as thin films.