• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.349-367
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• 2012

Recently, the global paradigm on the economic structure has been changed from the price-oriented borderless competition toward the sustainable quality movement due to the ever-increasing global warming and environmental issues. Since Korea hosted the global 20 summit in 2010, it has promoted the green growth policies and asked for the other countries to participate in. Unfortunately, it is not easy to figure out the green growth or green productivity because the economic performance has a side effect of environmental pollution such as CO2 emission. This paper aims to analyzes the methodological comparison for all the related issues with green productivity and suggests the new paradigm of global Malmquist-Lundberger index (GML) as the most flexible field and performance-oriented criteria to measure the green productivity.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.307-324
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• 2011

The global economic crisis made most of governments to overcome the economic depression as well as the challenging tasks for global warming. It is not easy political vision to harmonize these two rabbits race, and thus it needs to be developed new paradigm for the sustainable development. Unfortunately, the traditional cost-approach based productivity could not resolve this trade-off relation. Therefore, the paper is aimed to develop new approach on the green productivity index with the DEA models in the 1st stage, and then based on these green productivity scores, the paper is analyzed the determinants of these green productivity in the 2nd stage among the G 20 countries. The empirical result shows that the effect of GDP, carbon intensity, and capital and labor intensity toward the green growth is positive on the green productivity, while the level of government efforts is not significant on the green productivity.

• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.89-107
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• 2012

Recently, the successful appointment of the general directorate of GCF (Green Climate Fund) in Songdo of Korea made a great history for the golden triangle with GGGI (global Green Growth Institute) and GTC (Green Technology Center). Now, Korea became the Mecca for the global green growth and it gave a great opportunity foe the Korea to lead the global economy in the future. However, to successfully manage the GCF, the Korean government should show their willingness as well as the readiness for the green prowth and green productivity. It is really hard for the Korea, since it takes the second rank for the growth rate of carbon dioxide emission in the world. To overcome this shameful status, it should make the best effort to promote the green productivity, especially in a field of logistics industry, because it takes 21% of global CO2 emission, the second largest portion. The research aims to systematically introduce the Global Malmquist-Luenberger Index (GML) and to evaluate the logistics industry of Korea based on the GML approach. It concludes the innovative technology is utmost important to improve the green productivity of the logistics industry and thus the Korean government should make more aggressive role to fill this missing link in the innovation network.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.291-308
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• 2011

The success of a target of 'low-carbon green growth' depends on whether installing energy-saving capital would result in an increase in industry's productivity growth. Defining total factor productivity from a dual cost function, this paper estimates the contribution of energy efficiency investment to productivity growth by analyzing the sources of growth of productivity index for the primary metal industries. Empirical results show that, on average, energy efficiency investment increased the annual rate of productivity growth by 1.16 percentage points over th period 1982~2006. In addition, The scale effect positively affected the contribution of energy efficiency investment on productivity growth.

• International Area Studies Review
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.513-532
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• 2011

Green supply chain management(GSCM) has emerged as a key approach for firms seeking to become sustainable environmentally. GSCM is a system in which the firm takes life cycle responsibility of the products through material recycling, environment-friendly production, and reverse logistics in addition to the classical operations in a supply chain. This paper endeavors to identify the relationship between the GSCM practice implementation and firms' performance among a sample of Korean manufacturing firms. Based on a literature review, eight hypotheses are put forward. First of all, a factor analysis was conducted to derive groupings of GSCM practice from the survey data which included 54 responses. Then, the first regression was conducted to examine the link between GSCM practice implementation and firms' financial performance. The result shows that green purchasing and green production are significant. The second regression was conducted to examine the impact of GSCM practice implementation on the firms' competitiveness. The result reveals that green purchasing, green production, and reverse logistics are positively signifiant.

• 월간 기계설비
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• s.263
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• pp.50-57
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• 2012

저탄소 녹색성장은 세계적인 친환경 추이에 발맞추고 소비자들의 인식변화에 부응하는 신성장동력이다. 이를 잘 활용하면 기업의 경쟁력을 장기적으로 강화시킬 수 있고 새로운 기회를 가져다줄 수 있다. 녹색성장은 그야말로 기업 성장에 엄청난 영향을 끼칠 수 있는 새로운 패러다임인 것이다. 정부는 향후 에너지를 자급자족하는 건축물을 목표로 저탄소 녹색성장 정책을 추진하고 있다. 그 일환으로 건축물 에너지 목표관리제 도입, 녹색건축물 조성 지원법 등이 있다. 내년 2월 23일 시행을 앞두고 있는 '녹색 건축물 조성 지원법'은 건축물의 설계 시공 유지 관리 등 모든 분야에 영향을 미치는 법으로서, 특히 건축물의 에너지효율 개선 관련 기준을 제시할 예정이다. 이로써 고효율 설비 등 시설 투자는 물론 에너지 소비를 제어할 수 있는 기계설비의 위상과 역할이 크게 부각될 전망이다. 대한건설협회 및 한국생산성본부인증원은 지난 4월 18일 건설회관에서 '건설분야의 녹색정책과 대응방안' 컨퍼런스를 개최하고, $\bigtriangleup$저탄소 녹색성장 정책방향 $\bigtriangleup$녹색건축물 관련법 및 정책 추진방향 $\bigtriangleup$녹색건축물 조성지원법 제정에 따른 건설업의 나아갈 방향 $\bigtriangleup$녹색건축 도시조성을 위한 실천전략 $\bigtriangleup$녹색건축물제도가 건설업에 미치는 영향 등에 관해 주제발표를 했다. 본지는 '건설분야의 녹색정책과 대응방안' 컨퍼런스에서 발표된 내용을 바탕으로 '녹색건축물 조성 지원법'에 대해 자세히 알아본다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.187-194
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• 2017

As the environmental pollution and the global warming have become more and more serious, the green management has been growing more and more critical to small and medium enterprises. In order to explore factors positively influencing small and medium enterprises' green management performance, this study presents the two major implications through the ordinary least squares regression based on the 2,200 data from the small and medium enterprises in the Republic of Korea. First, small and medium enterprises' external technology R&D information network diversity positively influences their green management performance from technology R&D. Second, small and medium enterprises' production process improvement is a partial mediator between their external technology R&D information network diversity and green management performance from technology R&D.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.99-118
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• 2011

'Low Carbon, Green Growth' may be the achievable target in industry section, depending on whether less reliance on fossil-fuels use can bring higher productivity growth in the long run. This paper tests for the short-run and long-run effects of investment on energy-saving equipments on productivity growth in the Korean manufacturing industries. The investment in energy efficiency causes an increase in costs (measurement effect) in the short-run, but in the long-run likely improve energy intensity and reduce costs (positive real effect) despite the delay in new other investment for technical innovation (negative real effect). A 2SLS regression was attempted to deal with endogeneity of energy-saving investment. The productivity effects were tested for five manufacturing sub-industries showing relatively high energy intensity with annual time series data from 1982 through 2006. No productivity effects were accepted for all five sub-industries except Chemical products. Positive real effect was considered to be exceeded by negative real effect, resulting in decreased productivity growth for Chemical products.

• The Magazine for Energy Service Companies
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• s.79
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• pp.30-35
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• 2012

작년 9월 15일, 정전대란이 일어났다. 우리나라도 이제 전력 수요가 많아짐에 따라 블랙아웃에 절대 안심할 수 없는 지경에 이르렀다. 최근 전력수급과 에너지 효율성 등에 대한 관심이 커지고 있는 시점에 열린 2012 대한민국 녹색에너지대전은 '제4의 에너지'로 일컬어지는 신재생과 '제5의 에너지'인 에너지절약을 강조하는 행사로 다양한 에너지 문제에 대한 다양한 해법을 제시하였다. 지난 10월 9일부터 12일까지 코엑스에서 열린 '2012 대한민국 에너지대전'에서 대체에너지 생산과 에너지절약에 대한 지혜를 발견할 수 있었다. 녹색에너지대전, 신재생에너지대전, 녹색일자리엑스포 등 3가지 행사를 한 자리에서 볼 수 있었으며 '에너지절약시설자금 투자설명회'가 개최 돼 녹색에너지와 에너지절약을 궁금해 하는 일반인들과 에너지절약기업의 큰 관심을 끌었다. '2012년 대한민국 녹색에너지대전'은 에너지, 기후, 신재생 분야의 최신 제품, 기술, 정보 등 녹색 교류의 장이자, 동북아대표 기술교류 허브(Hub)로써 에너지효율, 기후변화-신재생에너지등 미래 에너지의 새로운 패러다임을 제시한 행사로 평가된다. 또한 에너지절약 차원으로는 에너지효율 향상을 주도하는 제품 및 기술 제안하여 보일러, 고효율조명, LED, 단열재, 하이브리드 자동차, 고효율가전기기, 전력수요관리설비 등 에너지효율 향상 제품이 전시되었고 기후변화대응과 녹색정책 및 기술 발표가 이어져 에너지 관련 공공기관, 협회 등 정책, 사업, 기술동향 등(CDM프로젝트, 탄소배출권 거래체, 탄소금융 사업 등)이 소개되었다.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.1-26
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• 2012

Greenhouse gas emission policy in Korea and elsewhere is based on emissions projections, a key element of which is the projected path of structural change from high productivity growth to low productivity growth economic sectors given sector specific labor productivity growth, emissions abatement across sectors and population growth. Thus, it is important to model the source of the structural change to forecast emissions correctly. Using data for the Korean economy, this study constructs and quantitatively evaluates a model of structural change and green growth to generate policy implications for Korea and the international greenhouse gas debate.