• Journal of Environmental Policy
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.3-16
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• 2013

This review paper examines various terms used for the definitions and classifications of ecosystem services, often times mixed and confused, in the literature and re-establishes the concepts of important terms, including ecosystem functions, services and benefits, to enhance communication among the stake-holders in the process of decision making. The definitions and scopes of ecosystem services are differentiated depending on the policy purposes such as environmental accounting, environmental valuation and natural resource management. The importance of identification and enumeration of final outputs associated with a particular policy is addressed. In addition, the usefulness of an alternative pathway-analysis beginning from benefits, via services and function, to process/structure of ecosystem is emphasized.

• The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.13-20
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• 2013

An emergy concept was used to evaluate the contributions of the Youngsan River Estuary to the Korean economy from systems and ecosystem service perspectives. Total emergy input to the estuary was $9.42{\times}10^{20}$ sej/yr with the chemical potential of river inflow accounting for 73% of the total and tidal energy for the remaining 27%, reflecting the unique environmental characteristics of estuaries where rivers meet sea. From the systems perspective, the estuary ecosystem contributed 179.9 billion em\/yr (14.91 million em\/ha/yr or 13,526 em$/ha/yr). Four ecosystem services of the Youngsan River Estuary were selected for the emergy evaluation: fishery production, pollutant removal, aesthetic function, and scientific research information. Aesthetic function contributed the most to the Korean economy with 179.9 billion em\/yr, followed by fishery production (101.1 billion em\/yr), pollutant removal (32.6 billion em\/yr), and scientific research information (934 million em\/yr). Emergy-based values of the selected ecosystem services of the estuary were higher than those calculated by economic methodologies.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.286-294
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• 2020

This study aims to economically evaluate rice production and various ecological services provided by organic rice paddy carrying out rice-fish mixed farming. It was also conducted to find a stable structure for increasing the income of rice-producing farmers and promoting ecological services by evaluating the economic feasibility of organic rice paddy for rice-fish mixed farming. As a result of the analysis of expected effects by ecological service functions according to the types of agriculture in the rice-fish mixed farming, general conventional paddy fields were evaluated to have an effect of continuously decreasing biodiversity such as amphibian reptiles, aquatic insects, bird habitats, experience and ecological education, and vegetation diversity, while the biodiversity of organic and rice-fish mixed paddy fields was assessed to increase. As a result of evaluating the economic value, as the area for fish production increases compared to the common practice and organic paddy fields, rice production decreases, but fish production increases and total income was analyzed to increase. In addition, if the value of ecosystem service functions is assessed in the future, it will increase further. It is hoped that these findings will be used as basic data for solving oversupply problems in the rice industry, preserving safe farm income, and improving sustainable farming and ecosystem service functions.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.72-82
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to estimate the trend of ecosystem water quality regulating services in Odaesan National park of the last five years and the corresponding economic values. Recently the climate change makes increased the value of the water, it is more important to protect the source of the riverthan to purify the contaminated water. To evaluate the water quality regulating services, we calculated the difference between purification and pollution from national park and estimated the quantitative value of the water quality regulating services. As a results, the amount of the value of the water quality regulating services from 2017 to 2021 was increased from approximately BOD 128.21 kg/Day, T-P 12.11 kg/Day to BOD 161.38 kg/Day, T-P 13.24 kg/Day and the economic value also increased from 2,304 million won to 2,817 million won.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.90-90
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• 2018

환경의 가치, 특히 물의 가치는 시대와 함께 변화하고 있다. 그동안 국내 하천관리는 환경적 측면보다는 이수와 치수에 보다 초점이 맞춰져 있어, 하천 고유의 수생태계 서비스기능 유지에 필요한 용수의 확보에 정책적인 배려가 부족하였다. 그러나 최근 소득수준이 향상되고 환경개선에 대한 관심이 늘어나면서 물관리에 있어 이용뿐만 아니라 환경측면을 고려한 지속가능한 하천관리에 대한 정책적 관심이 높아지고 있다. 이에 하천 수생태에 대한 정책 역시 과거보다 강화되고 있는 추세이며, 최근 물환경보전법 공포를 통해 수생태건강성 유지를 위한 환경생태유량에 대한 법적 근거가 마련된 바 있다. 실질적인 환경생태유량 공급 정책방안 마련을 위해 환경생태유량 공급이 하천 수생태에 주는 효과에 대한 편익 정보를 산정해볼 필요가 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 환경생태유량 공급효과에 대한 편익을 산정해 보았으며, 이를 위하여 대표적인 비시장재화 가치평가법인 선택실험법을 적용하였다. 한편 환경생태유량 공급효과에 대한 많은 연구에서는 환경생태유량 공급효과를 하천의 주요 어종 관련 지표를 통해 나타내고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서도 환경생태유량 공급에 대한 편익산정시 하천고유어종 변화, 하천 어종 수 변화, 외래어종 변화의 3가지 속성에 대한 한계지불의사액을 추정하였다. 본 연구결과는 환경개선을 위한 정책수행, 특히 수생태계 환경개선을 위한 정책결정시 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.24-32
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• 2019

According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, the total area of unexecuted urban planning facilities in Korea is about $1,257km^2$, of which 47% is the unexecuted urban green space and forests. In the case of Seoul, the total area of unexecuted urban planning facilities is about $66km^2$, which is 5.24% of the total unexecuted area in the entire country. In Seoul, approximately 88% of the total unexecuted area is urban green space and forests, which is higher than the national rate. About 92% of the unexecuted urban planning facilities are long-term unexecuted urban planning facilities that are more than 10 years old. This study assessed the economic value of potential ecosystem services, focusing on the regulation service, supporting service, and cultural service, for urban green space and forests of unexecuted urban planning facilities in Seoul by using meta-regression analysis. As a result, the value of the regulation service provided by the urban green space and forests in Seoul was about 16.39 billion KRW, the value of the supporting service was about 5.8 billion KRW, and the cultural service value was about 7.78 billion KRW. The total value of ecosystem services is about 33.93 billion KRW. The values of regulation service and cultural service were the highest, and that was attributed to the characteristics of the downtown area. The significance of this study is to evaluate the value of ecosystem services for unexecuted urban planning facilities in Seoul. The results of this study can be used not only in the process of urban planning or policymaking but also land compensation methods applying the concept of an ecosystem service payment system.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.43-57
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• 2024

As coastal areas have a distinct nature with the interaction of the lands and waters, they attract people to enjoy and experience the natural environments physically and intellectually; this generates cultural ecosystem services. Coastal beaches are one of the most common coastal areas for cultural ecosystem services. The purpose of this study was to 1) estimate the economic values of cultural ecosystem services derived from coastal beaches, and 2) expand the estimated values into other beaches across the country using a benefit transfer method. We divided the values of cultural ecosystem services into five different categories based on an extensive literature review: recreation and tourism, landscape and aesthetic, educational, heritage, and inspirational values. The values of tourism and recreation, landscape and aesthetic, and educational services were estimated using the choice experiments. The attributes of the choice experiments consisted of conservation funds, litter, water quality, seascape, landscape, and biodiversity, and the data were collected through online surveys with visitors of 11 representative beaches in Korea. Heritage and inspiration services were estimated using a market goods method based on their expenditures. These values were transferred to 257 beaches across the country. Study results can be used for policy decisions on various restoration and conservation projects caused by coastal erosion and development and on the need and extent of public investments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.49-50
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• 2015

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.28 no.12
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• pp.16-23
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• 2011

최근 스마트폰 확산과 함께 모바일 시장이 개방적인 PC진영으로 편입되면서 ICT 산업구조가 복잡한 개방적 생태계로 재편성되고 있다. 이에 본고에서는 가치 네트워크(Value Network) 관점에서 타 산업 사업자간 상생적 협력관계 구축을 통한 수익배분 모델 등 주요 글로벌 ICT 리더들의 사업전략을 분석하고, 단말 및 서비스 플랫폼을 중심으로 하는 새로운 ICT 생태계의 진화방향을 전망하고자 한다. 특히 앱스 토어를 기반으로 하여 단말 플랫폼을 확장하는 애플의 전략 과 웹을 기반으로 하는 서비스 플랫폼을 통해 이용자의 접점을 확장하는 구글의 사업전략을 비교 분석하여 향후 글로벌 ICT 산업의 전망과 시사점을 제시하고자 한다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.1-9
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• 2018

This study looked at the blockchain technology as an ecosystem side and examined the role of each component. In this study, the blockchain ecosystem is a network structure in which members share and collaborate with each other in order to create new value(service) based on the distributed ledger. Hence compare to bio-ecosystem, the components of blockcahin ecosystem are consists of service providers(producer), service users(consumer) and the distributed ledger owners(decomposer). Distributed ledgers, who act as decomposers in the blockchain ecosystem, play an important role. In order to maintain and activate the value of the blockchain ecosystem, the ecosystem can be effectively operated by constructing an environment in which the distributed ledger owners can handle effectively. This will help us to understand the relationship between ecosystems and not only to contribute to the study but also to activate the blockchain ecosystem. The limitations of this study are based on exploratory research, and specific discussion is needed based on objective data.