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Survey of Farmers' Perception and Behavior for Agricultural Water Saving - Applying to Irrigation Facility Monitors in Pohang and Yeongdeok Areas - (농업용수 물절약에 대한 농업인 의식 및 행동 조사 - 포항·영덕지역 수리시설감시원을 대상으로 -)

  • Lee, Seul-Gi;Choi, Kyung-Sook
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.39-47
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    • 2020
  • While agricultural water has been declared free in Korea to ensure access to these limited resource since the year 2000, farmers have however developed lackadaisical behavior towards water saving leading to its scarcity. To overcome this problem, a variety of experience-oriented education model was developed for farmers to promote the adoption of water conservation, and preventive measure against the drought impacts. In this study, farmers' awareness and their attitudinal behavior of agricultural water savings were investigated. The monitoring of water supply structure and the repair facilities in Pohang and Yeongdeok areas were conducted. The field visits and behavioral surveys showed a high degree of over-use and illegal water withdrawals by the farmers due to poor water-saving and management practices. We found that most of the KRC employees strongly admitted the necessity of water-saving education. On the other hand, the farmers showed good interest in the implementation of water-saving awareness through education. Besides this, most farmers agreed to adopt water-saving practices in the fields. Farmers also acknowledged the recklessness of water use was due to the aging of waterways, poor water management, and illegal water consumption. The majority of the farmers responded against imposing the water-use tariffs. However, there was a low response to paying the water-use charge. Aging agricultural facilities and the lack of institutional penalties or incentives were the major obstacles in achieving efficient water-saving. Considering the current drought frequency, urgent water-saving education of farmers was deemed necessary to prepare the farming community against the water shortages. Based on the results of this study, we have to identify the irrigation practices of farmers and provide water-saving education to enforce more efficient use and management of agricultural water.

Environmental Consciousness and Environmental Preservation Behavior of Textile Producers (섬유제품 생산자의 환경의식과 환경보전행동)

  • 김용숙
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.183-196
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    • 1996
  • The purposes of this study were to review the effects of textiles production on the environment, and to investigate the environmental consciousness and environmental preservation behavior of textile producers. This study was conducted by reference analysis and empirical research. To develope theoretical framework of dimensions of environmental behavior, references concerned were analyzed. And for empirical study, researcher developed a questionnaire based on the free writing by producers and references. The questionnaire included problems about environmental consciousness, environmental behavior, demographic variables, and environmental variables. 135 questionnaires were used for final data analysis. ANOVA and factor analysis were used. The results were as follows: First, the level of global environmental problem consciousness was relatively high. The conscious level of water pollution caused by the waste water from textile mills was the highest, and that of desertation of mountain caused by timber cutting was the lowest. The effects of textile dyers and finishers on the environment were the highest, and that of designers were the lowest. Second, the results of reference analysis showed that the dimensions of textile producers environmental behavior were resource and energy saving, solid waste reduction, and green product production. And the results of empirical study were resource and energy saving, resource reuse or recycling, solid waste reduction, and green product production, and total variances was 62.3%. The practice was the lowest. Third, global environment problem consciousness, environment problem consciousness caused by the textile life-cycle concerned, and clothing seperate-collection or not at residing place were effective on environmental behavior, and 52.45% of environmental behavior was explained with above variables.

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Design and Analysis of Resource Management Architecture for Network Mobility (네트워크 이동성을 위한 자원 관리 구조의 설계와 분석)

  • 백은경;조호식;최양희
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.29 no.7B
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    • pp.628-640
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    • 2004
  • The demand for next generation networks can be condensed into always-best-connected, ubiquitous, mobile, all-lP, and converged networks. IPv6 has been introduced for all-IP ubiquitous communications, and vehicles are coming to represent an important communication platform. In this paper. we propose various resource management schemes for in-vehicle mobile networks, which are adaptive to different hardware configurations. We focus on power and wireless bandwidth since they are critical resources for mobile communications. Based on the mobility characteristics of in-vehicle networks, we propose vehicle-aware power saving schemes. The main idea behind these power saving schemes is to adjust mobile router (MR) advertisement interval and binding lifetime. In addition, according to different wireless environments, we propose adaptive bandwidth management schemes using multihoming: best-connected MR selection based on location, and high-data-rate MR selection based on priority By mathematical analysis, it is shown that our schemes save power prominently for both the dormant nodes and active nodes. In addition, simulation results show that proposed multiple mobile router architecture outperforms previous simple redundant router architecture in preserving session and providing sufficient bandwidth.

A Study on the Effects of Governmental Support on KERRP: Case of Descending Clock Auction (온실가스 감축사업에 대한 정부 지원 정책 효과 분석)

  • Jang, Won-Ik
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.923-946
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    • 2007
  • The goal of this study is to analyse the effects of financial support by governmental on KERRP (Korea Emission Reduction Registration Project) in the case of descending clock auction. Result shows that about 60% of total reduction (612,000ton) can be achieved at the price of 8,000 Won/ton with the budget amount of 5 billion Won, if the benefit from energy saving by the project is not included. Also 100% of total reduction (1,015,713ton) can be achieved at the price of 4,900Won/ton, if the benefit from energy saving by the project is included. Because most projects get some benefits from the energy saving occurred by project performance, the financial support by government may not be needed. However, this type of support would be meaningful from the aspect of encouraging GHG (Green House Gas) reduction to be prepared for the potential obligation of national GHG reduction from 2013.

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The analysis of sages조 philosophic view in Chosun dynasty household economic management (가정경제 운영에 대한 조선조 선현(先賢)들의 철학관 분석)

  • 두경자
    • Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.89-100
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the sages’ philosophic view of home economic management in Chosun dynasty. The research method is to review literatures such as Jangbosanrimkongje, Songhosasal, Sasojul, Nehun, Geneusa, Mocminsimsa and Dasanmusun. The major points of this study were as, 1) Sages mastered that the primary principle of home economic management is to control the material desires. 2) Sages believed that home life management is required the lowest materials, and those materials enough are able to obtained through diligence, frugality, thift and savings. Therefore Sages advised us that each of us lives a diligent, frugal, thrifty and saving life.

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An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Energy Saving Investment on the Improvement of Energy Intensity in Korean Manufacturing (한국 제조업에 대한 에너지절약 투자의 에너지 원단위 개선효과 분석)

  • Park, Changsuh;Yoo, Dongheon
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.485-510
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze the economic effect of energy saving investment on the improvement of energy intensity. The data used in this paper are panel data, both time-series and cross-section data. In addition, eight manufacturing sectors has been divided into two groups: massive energy consuming (four industries) and non-massive energy consuming (four industries) ones and the time period of analysis is from 1982 to 2004. According to the empirical results, firstly, energy saving investment has a negative relationship with energy intensity, however, its effect is not high in terms of absolute volume of energy consuming. Secondly, in improving energy intensity of energy saving investment, its elasticity IS higher in non-massive energy consuming sector compared it with massive energy consuming sector. Thirdly, automation investment is also playing an important role in energy conservation. The elasticities of automation investment to energy intensity are larger than those of energy saving investment. In terms of the reduction of greenhouse gas per investment unit cost, however, energy saving investment has larger effect than automation investment.

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A Study on the Evaluation of Ecological Dwellings (생태주거 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Ahn, Taekyung;Kim, Hakcheol
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.67-77
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    • 2000
  • Environmental pollution has become a serious worldwide problem the humans has encountered in several decades. On the respect of the preservation of the global environment, world-wide consensus to cope with this problem was represented as 1992's Rio Declation. The purpose of this study is to develope evaluation technique of ecological architecture. The environmental scores of the buildings are evaluated and improved from the building design phase in order to build the best environmental building. Ecological architecture is mainly based on the balance of three element : Nature, Humanity, and Cost saving. Its main goals are energy saving and recycling, resource saving, high contact with circumstances, and health & amenity.

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Design Principles for Flexible House Plan corresponding to Resource Saving (자원절약을 위한 가변형 평면계획을 위한 설계원리)

  • HyunSooLee
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.117-126
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    • 1996
  • The purpose of this paper is to develop formal design principles towards flexible house plan. A flexible house plan accomodates spatial requirements corresponding to change of life style and provides a way of saving architectural materials. Design properties as a basis for manipulation of room includes adjacency, orientation and geometrical information which are suited well to flexible design. This paper has developed a formal grammar of shape which can be utilized to transform house plan. Flexible design presented here is based on the idea of various operations of the shape grammar. The shape grammar, as a set of rules, specifies manipulations of shapes for reorganization of spatial relationships of rooms in a house plan. It lists exemplary rules in control knowledge which guides design processes for modifying a plan. An example taken from house plan design is used to ilustrate important aspects of the flexible design which fundamentally provides the basis for architectural material saving.

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The Importance and Preference of Eco-Friendly Design Elements Related to Residential Space - Focused on the Residents in Gimhae - (주건공간 관련 친환경 디자인 요소의 중요도와 선호 - 김해지역 아파트 거주자를 대상으로 -)

  • Park, Jin-Kyoung;Oh, Chan-Ohk
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.86-94
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the importance of eco-friendly design elements related to residential space by residents and what element they prefer. To achieve this, 18 eco-friendly design elements related to residential space were selected from the Green Building Certification Criteria and the relevant research papers. These elements were categorized into four areas; the ecological environment area (4 elements), the indoor environmental climate one (4 elements), the energy and resource saving one (6 ones), and the material one(4 ones). On the base of these 18 elements, the importance degree of each element was examined by using 5-point Likert scale. The subjects were 299 housewives living in apartment houses in Jangyu new town, Gimhae. The subjects perceived strongly the importance of eco-friendly design elements, but many of them did not know about Green Building Certification Criteria. Overall importance of 18 elements by the residents was very high. Also, the indoor environmental climate area was considered as the most important one, followed by the energy and resource saving area, the material area, and the ecological environment one.

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Estimating Potential Energy Consumption and Carbon Emission Reduction in South Korea Using Non-radial Data Envelopment Analysis Approach (Non-radial Data Envelopment Analysis를 적용한 지역별 에너지 및 이산화탄소 저감가능성 추정)

  • Kim, Kwang-Uk;Kang, Sang-Mok
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.299-320
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    • 2016
  • This study estimates an energy efficiency of 16 metropolitans and provinces in Korea, and measures potential energy-saving and carbon emission reduction using a non-radial data envelopment analysis method. Based on energy mix scenarios, this study also evaluates the impact of changes in energy structural adjustment on a regional environmental performance. The empirical results show that, on average, 12.70% of energy consumption and 13.73% of carbon emission can be reduced by improvement in energy efficiency, and low efficiency of oil usage in metropolitan cities is a major source of the inefficiency. Furthermore, it is found that energy mix policy should be considered to achieve an extra energy-saving and carbon reduction.