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A Study on the Differences in Perception among Experts and Public Officials for the Executive Agent of Environmental Affairs and National Policy Tasks

  • Ki, Junghoon;Park, Soonae;Lee, Youngsung;Lee, Youngmi
    • Journal of People, Plants, and Environment
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.241-253
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    • 2019
  • This study presents the standards for desirable local transfer of public affairs by analyzing the perceptions of experts in the academia and research institutes, as well as public officials in the environmental sector in charge of environmental affairs. The results of this study tend to be partially consistent with the results of previous studies that there is a difference in perception among respondents depending on the affiliation of experts and public officials. Among the policy tasks, there was a statistically significant difference among the respondents in perception of responsible agent for carrying out sustainable land planning and management. Regarding general environmental affairs, there was a statistically significant difference among pubic officials in different affiliations in perception of responsible executive agent for natural environment, living environment, and resource circulation.

The present status of environmental education administration in the middle schools of Seoul City (학교 환경교육관련 업무현황과 개선방향 - 서울시 소재 중학교를 중심으로 -)

  • 박민희;최경희
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the present status of environmental education administration in the middle schools of Seoul City and to find problems to be solved environmental education in middle schools. To accomplish these purpose surveys for middle school teachers in Seoul was conducted, and evaluation reports of school environmental education of 1998 were analyzed. The results indicated that both schools and Ministry of Education offered few evaluation standards related to environmental education. Most schools abolished division of environmental affairs because of the reorganization of school system, which focuses on subject and aptitude-based education. In addition, environmental education and related activities were maily the responsibilities of division of science education. The teachers responded that such activities as organization and management of mothers'social service, management of environment day, use of environmental conservation card, and establishment of conservation area were not effective and should be abolished. The conclusion from this study are that environmental education can be effective only when goals of environmental education are included in school evaluation, and the division of environmental affairs should be revived and systematically operated in school.

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A study on improvement of the system cultivating professionals in environment (환경 전문 인력 양성의 개선 방안)

  • 이무춘;전의찬;김기철
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.23-36
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    • 2000
  • As the environmental industry grew bigger and bigger, the corcern about environmental condition increased and the demand of environmental expert tended to be much more increased. A lot of universities therefore established environment-related departments on campuses and ended up with producing numerous students every single year. However, some problems such as followings were in this study. First, the industry cannot adopt all the students directly from universities due to their low capabilities in environment affairs. Second, the universities yield much more students than the industry can actually adopt. In order to yield the appropriate students meeting the expectation of the industry, it is necessary to permit no more new department established on campus and to adopt new environmental field such as environmental management, eco-auditing and also 3+1 lecture system focused on real affairs.

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