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미래 기후 시나리오를 고려한 도시 유역 홍수 피해 저감을 위한 투수성 포장 시설 대상 유역 우선순위 선정 (Prioritizing the target watersheds for permeable pavement to reduce flood damage in urban watersheds considering future climate scenarios)

  • 채승택;송영훈;이주원;정은성
    • 한국수자원학회논문집
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    • 제55권2호
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    • pp.159-170
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    • 2022
  • 기후변화로 인한 도시유역의 물 관련 재해의 심각성이 증가함에 따라 미래 기후 환경에서 도시 유역의 홍수피해를 줄이는 것은 중요한 문제 중 하나이다. 본 연구는 다기준의사결정기법을 이용하여 미래 기후 환경에서 도시 유역의 홍수 피해 저감 효율을 극대화하기 위해 투수성 포장 시설을 설치하기 위한 지역의 우선순위를 선정한다. 과거에 비해 도시화가 많이 진행된 목감천 유역을 대상유역으로 선정하였으며, 목감천 유역의 27개 소유역을 투수성 포장 시설의 설치 가능지역으로 하였다. 2개의 Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) 시나리오에 따른 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6(CMIP6)의 6개 전지구모형(General Circulation Model, GCM)을 사용하여 연구대상지의 미래 월 강수 자료를 추정했다. 투수성 포장의 우선순위를 결정하기 위한 수량 평가 기준은 Driving force-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) 체계를 토대로 선정하였으며, 평가 기준별 투수성 포장 시설의 평가값은 국가통계자료와 Storm Water Management Model의 모의 값을 사용했다. 최종적으로 Fuzzy TOPSIS 및 Minimax regret 방법을 사용하여 투수성 시설을 설치하기 위한 지역의 우선순위를 선정했다. 결국 우선순위가 높은 지역은 목감천 유역의 상류 유역에 비해 도시화가 많이 진행되었고 인구밀도가 높은 하류유역에 집중되었다.

농촌지도사의 관점에서 본 농촌개발 성과 영향요인 - 말라위 사례 - (Factors Affecting the Performance of Agricultural Project from the Perspectives of Agriculture Extension Workers - A Case Study of Malawi -)

  • 투치테치 하옹가;이미숙
    • 농촌지도와개발
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    • 제25권2호
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    • pp.111-120
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    • 2018
  • 이 연구의 목적은 빈곤 완화를 위한 농업프로젝트의 저조한 성과에 영향을 미치는 요인을 분석하는 것이다. 연구대상지역은 말라위 북부 및 남부 지역의 Karonga 와 Phalom be 지역이며, 82명의 농촌지도사를 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였다. 분석을 위한 변수는 농민의 사회경제적 요인, 정부 요인, 프로젝트 관리자 요인으로 구분하였으며, SPSS를 사용하여 회귀분석을 시행하였다. 분석결과 농민의 사회경제적 요인에서는 농민의 문맹률, 높은 빈곤율, 프로젝트의 낮은 참여율, 그리고 농민의 외부 의존 증후군이 저조한 농업 프로젝트의 성과에 영향을 미치는 요인으로 나타났다. 프로젝트 자체 요인으로는 지속적인 자금 흐름과 지원의 부재가 유효한 요인으로 나타났다. 따라서 효과적인 농업프로젝트의 성과달성을 위해서는 정부와 이해 관계자들이 농민들에게 자조정신을 심어주어야 하며, 자금지원에 대하여 검토하여야 할 것이다. 이를 통해 사업의 높은 성과는 직접적인 농민의 빈곤완화로 이어질 수 있을 것이다.

식품산업체가 겪는 위기의 분류와 위기 수준 판단 (Classification of Food Safety Crises and Standard Setting for Crisis Level in Food Industry)

  • 김종규;김중순
    • 한국환경보건학회지
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    • 제41권2호
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    • pp.133-145
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    • 2015
  • Objectives: Food safety has become one of the major public-concerning issues in Korea. In order to set guidelines to create manuals for the response to a food safety crisis by food industry, this paper classified food safety crises and suggested techniques to determine crisis level. Methods: This study clarified common terminologies and definitions including in food safety crises. It reviewed various food safety crises and described characteristics, types, and states of crises. Results: The results of this study suggested that a food safety crisis implied a situation in which hazards/risk spreading in the food supply chain was widely described, causing strong public concern followed by a socioeconomic impact, and therefore, requiring the implementation of a prompt and full response regarding the situation. In terms of seeking response plans, food safety crises might be classified according to the penalties resulting from violations of laws and regulations, causative substances, stages of the food supply chain, and first contact point for incidents. The crisis level for a food safety crisis could be classified according to its severity parameters. The guideline matrix was divided into four major stages: Blue/guarded, Yellow/elevated, Orange/high, and Red/severe. This study also suggested several methods for determining the crisis level, such as the simple judgement method, scoring methods using a check-list and a weighted check-list. Conclusion: The severity of related parameters might be of great importance in understanding a crisis and determining response options/challenges for crisis levels.

Healthcare access challenges facing six African refugee mothers in South Korea: a qualitative multiple-case study

  • Kim, Min Sun;Song, In Gyu;An, Ah Reum;Kim, Kyae Hyung;Sohn, Ji Hoon;Yang, Sei Won
    • Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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    • 제60권5호
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    • pp.138-144
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: Following legal reform in 2013, the annual number of asylum seekers entering South Korea has increased from 1,143 in 2012 to 5,711 in 2015. We interviewed six African refugee mothers of young children regarding their health needs and barriers to access maternal child health services. Methods: We recruited mothers who had visited a clinic for immigrants between July 2013 and August 2015. Participants were African refugee women, aged over 18 years, who had given birth in Korea within the previous 5 years and had come to Korea over a year before recruitment. Interview questions examined participants' experiences in pregnancy and childbirth and concerns regarding their child's health status. Initial data analysis involved all researchers' immersion in the entire collection of transcripts. We then noted recurrent topics and themes and identified similar issues. Results: At the time of giving birth, 5 participants were asylum seekers and one had undocumented status. The following barriers impeded their access to maternal child healthcare: socioeconomic factors (unstable social identity, low economic status, difficulty obtaining health insurance), language barriers (lack of linguistically appropriate health information, limited access to translation services), and cultural barriers (religious and cultural differences). Weak social support also hindered access to healthcare soon after migration; however, social links with the community emerged as a key coping strategy following settlement. Conclusion: We identified barriers to maternal and child healthcare and coping strategies among African refugee mothers in Korea. Future research should assess refugees' health status and improve health access and literacy among refugee mothers.

북한의 도시화와 인구분포 : 남한과의 비교 (Urbanization and Population Distribution in North Korea : A Comparison to South Korea)

  • 김두섭
    • 한국인구학
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    • 제18권2호
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    • pp.70-97
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    • 1995
  • 이 논문은 지난 반세기동안 북한에서 이루어진 도시화의 추세와 그 특징을 분석하기 위한 것이다. 이를 위해 우선 분단 이후 행정구역변천의 주요 내용을 개괄하였고, 지역별 인구분포를 살펴보았다. 그리고 도시인구의 변화추세와 도시체계의 특징을 경제발전정책과 관련하여 파악하고자 노력하였다. 북한에서는 6.25 전쟁 종료 이후 중공업 위주의 발전정책에 때라 1960년대 말까지 빠른 속도로 도시화가 진행되었으나, 1970년대 초부터 폐쇄적인 경제발전전략이 한계를 드러내면서 도시화의 속도는 현격하게 떨어졌다. 북한의 도시화 과정에 있어서 두드러진 특징은 새로운 도시의 육성전략에 따라 내륙지역의 도시들이 급속히 성장하였고, 중소도시의 인구규모가 꾸준히 증가햐였다는 것이다. 아울러 평양을 비롯한 대도시에서도 도시경계의 확장과 더불어 인구증가가 이루어졌다. 북한의 주요 도시들은 인구규모는 작으나, 외곽에 농업지역을 포함하고 있기 때문에 그 면적은 남한의 대도시들보다 훨씬 더 넓다. 또한 평양이 지니는 사회주의적 종주도시의 성격과 위성도시들의 두드러진 성장도 특징으로 지적될 수 있다. 마지막으로, 이 연구에서는 북한의 이동인구규모와 그 특징, 그리고 통일후에 예상되는 인구이동에 관한 논의도 이루어졌다.

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기후변화와 사회경제요인 변화에 따른 4대강의 물부족 피해 추정 (Climate Change and Socioeconomic Change Effects on the Four Major Rivers: An Economic Appraisal)

  • 이윤
    • 환경정책연구
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    • 제11권4호
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    • pp.107-130
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    • 2012
  • 본 논문은 한반도의 기후변화 영향이 수자원에 미치는 영향을 물부족과 가뭄을 중심으로 분석하였고 대상지역은 4대 하천이 중심이 되었다. 물론 기후변화의 영향은 강수량의 증가로 인한 홍수피해의 증가와 온도 상승 및 강수량의 감소로 인한 가뭄의 증가로 구분되어 설명해야 한다. 하지만 본 논문에서는 자료의 한계와 홍수피해를 산정하기 위한 우리나라의 침수피해모형이 존재하지 않기 때문에 기후변화의 영향이 가뭄피해에 국한되어 연구의 한계점을 가지고 있다. 또한 기후변화가 수자원에 영향을 주는 것을 확률적으로 분석할 필요성이 있으나 본 논문에서는 gamma function을 이용하여 실패확률 5% 이내에서 추산하였기 때문에 다양한 확률모형으로 연구의 분석 방법을 확장할 수 있다. 정치한 분석을 위해서 할인율은 단기, 중기, 장기로 구분하여 각각 2.76%, 1.45%, 0.62%로 가정하여 분석하였다. 전체적인 한강수계를 제외하고는 단기에 피해비용이 발생하지 않는 것으로 나타난다. 한강의 경우는 생활용수의 급격한 증가로 인하여 물 수요가 증가하는 것이 초기에 물 부족 현상으로 인하여 지속적인 피해를 발생시키는 것으로 나타났다.

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의대생의 전문직 사회화 과정에 대한 고찰 (Professional Socialization of Medical Students)

  • 한달선;조병희;배상수;김창엽;이상일;이영조
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • 제29권2호
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    • pp.265-278
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    • 1996
  • This paper concerns professional socialization of medical students. Professional socialization, in the context of this paper, means the process through which a layperson becomes a doctor equipped with professional identity and values. While medical education does not include such process in the curriculum, medical students obtain certain values and identity informally. The dependent variables were professional values and professionalism. The former means the desirable attributes required to conducting professional works such as humane attitudes, science-oriented mind, capability for organizational management. The latter means socio-political reasoning with which doctors can rationalize their privileges such as autonomy. A specially designed questionnaire was developed. The data were collected from five medical schools for 1,318 students in 1994. A total of 1,070 cases were finally included in the statistical analysis. The students emphasized the human factor in the professional values. Their attitude did not change with the grade. Other independent variables such as motives for entering a medical school, socioeconomic status, satisfaction with medical education, etc. also did not influence professinal values. It implies that professional values were not consolidated among the students. However, the factors of professionalism change significantly with the grade. It implies that the students paid more attention to socio-political issues related to doctor's interests as the grade went up. And the factor scores for professionalism were higher for those students who had more positive attitude towards doing medical practice for profit, expected higher income, and were more conservative about social reform. Other independent variables did not influence professionalism. It seems that the students also give emphasis on professionalism, like current medical doctors, mainly because of their concern with recent unfavorable changes in economic conditions of medical care providers.

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Factors Related to Perceived Life Satisfaction Among the Elderly in South Korea

  • Jung, Min-Soo;Muntaner, Carles;Choi, Man-Kyu
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • 제43권4호
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    • pp.292-300
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    • 2010
  • Objectives: This study attempted to explore the aging phenomena that now characterize much of Korean society, and assessed issues associated with the life satisfaction experienced during the process of aging. Methods: By employing the National Survey on the State of Life and the Desire for Welfare of the Elderly, 2004 in South Korea this study attempted to identify the factors that determine subjective life satisfaction among the elderly. The data utilized herein consisted of 3278 elderly people aged 65 years or older, from 9308 households. Results: The results of analysis from the final model after the introduction of 19 variables in 8 factors showed statistically similar explanatory power in men (adj. $R^2=0.320$) and in women (adj. $R^2=0.346$). We found that economic condition was the most influential factor in both men (B = 0.278) and women (B = 0.336) except perceived health condition variables. The second most influential variable in life satisfaction was health checkups in men (B = 0.128) and degree of nutritional diet in women (B = 0.145). Those who had experience with chronic diseases also reported significantly lower perceived life satisfaction and this was particularly true of women. Conclusions: The aging society requires an understanding of the lives of elderly individuals. This study explored factors associated with life satisfaction in old age by using a life satisfaction model. The success of an aging society begins with an accurate understanding of the elderly, and thus political attention will need to be focused on this matter.

Approaches for Developing National STI Strategies

  • Meissner, Dirk
    • STI Policy Review
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    • 제5권1호
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    • pp.34-56
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    • 2014
  • This paper reviews the most central analytical and methodological issues that arise in developing national STI strategies. First, an outline of the relationship between national innovation systems and the strategic dimension is presented. The paper shows that science, technology and innovation strategy are often used in different forms and that there is no common understanding yet of the actual meaning and coverage of these strategies. The paper develops the terminology from a discussion of different approaches towards company innovation processes analyzing their evolution in different socioeconomic environments and the role and impact of science, technology and innovation policy on company innovation processes. Based on this conceptual understanding the paper defines national science, technology, innovation, and STI strategy and explains the basic terminology. From these definitions, the strategic dimension including the impact on the stakeholders is discussed. It is shown that a major success factor for STI strategy development is the involvement of stakeholders to vary and extend their use of their portfolio of instruments. Moreover it becomes evident that stakeholders follow their own interests which aren't necessarily in the interest of the national STI strategies. The analysis shows advantages and disadvantages as well as potentials and limitations of different approaches to develop STI strategies in their ability to describe the reality of innovation processes and to allow conclusions about the relationship between innovation policy and the innovation processes implemented by companies. It is shown that knowledge of these limitations is an important factor to consider in designing consistent and coherent national STI policy which aims at supporting innovation eventually. Finally the paper concludes that the STI policy mix concept needs a more systemic development approach which is integrated in the national STI strategy development and implementation.

GIS를 활용한 서울시 도시근교공원의 접근성 지표에 관한 연구 (GIS-oriented Measurement Indicces of Accessibility of the Neighborhood Park in Seoul)

  • 허미선;진양조
    • 한국조경학회지
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    • 제24권3호
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    • pp.42-56
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    • 1996
  • The citizens seek to maximize convenience, pleasantness and safety when they use urban facilities. However, existing practices of urban neighborhood parks have applied not qualitative standards such as adequacy, efficiency, accessibility, equity, or socioeconomic issues but very limited quantitative standards such as area per person. Therefore it is not rare that citizens have lost their accessibility to near-by neighborhood parks. And park regulations based on the distance of lien are supposed to be uniformally accomplished regardless of the consideration about users or geographical special situations. Futhermore, it has been found that some urban neighborhood parks don't reach to the standards given by the regulations. This study tries to accomplished several purposes. The first purpose is to extract the boundary of real user-accessible zones derived from the city survey. Comparing with boundary of real user-accessible zones, the second one is to propose the most efficient measurement indices among many accessibility measurement index. Based upon the above arguments, the last one is to review the propriety of the access distances(e.g., semidiameter) of an urban neighborhood park in a law. The measurement indices of accessibility examined in this study are walking distance, walking time and walking difficulty. The comparison of visual discrimination, the comparison of area and the comparison of differences of maximum distance showed similar results. Each index can also be compared in the size of area and differences of maximum distance. Walking difficulty with the turning showed the best measurement values among the measurement indices. This indicates that walking difficulty with crossing and/or turning may be another important indices in measuring accessibility, while other existing studues have mainly dealt with walking time and distance as accessibility indices. The results of this study also supported that the existing regulations related to park allocation(e.g., access diameter) are close to the findings of this study.

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