• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.853-869
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• 2012

Nowadays, in the context of growing environmental consciousness and tourism industry, 'eco-tourism' has been expanding rapidly worldwide, and it is viewed as the strategy of regional development. Ecotourism is also perceived potential as an effective tool for sustainable development. However, when poorly planned and implemented an ecotourism project, it can quickly turn economic gains into social and environmental disasters. The purpose of this study is to develop standard sets of indicators to measure sustainable ecotourism, and to evaluate ecotourism sustainability practically. This study applies the indicators sets to the ecotourism through the case studies of 10 Korean ecotourism sites. Using the indicators sets, the levels and characteristics of the sustainability of 10 eco-tour sites were measured and evaluated, which makes it possible to monitor sustainable ecotourism in the future. After setting weights among domains differently, the results of the sensitivity analysis showed that the rank changes of the eco-tourism sustainability was very small, implying that the problem of weights setting among each domain will not be critical. Base on the empirical analysis, this study suggests the application of sustainability indicator sets of eco-tourism in the normative, analytic, practical aspects.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.394-407
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• 2023

Ecological restoration is an ecological technology that diagnoses problematic ecological spaces and restores the damaged ecosystem to a healthy appearance similar to its original appearance based on reference information obtained by analyzing intact nature. To achieve successful restoration, the project must be carried out in respect of a series of procedures. However, in Korea, restoration projects are usually actively promoted regardless of diagnostic evaluation, which wastes cost and energy, and the effect is not significant. As the reference information is not utilized, ecological restoration to return the damaged nature makes features different greatly from the appearance of nature, causing another damage. As the restoration effect is not evaluated, it is impossible to determine whether it is successful or not, and as a result, even if the project continues, there is no development and no effect. However, advanced societies have not only made academic progress by respecting these procedures but also have great economic effects along with the improvement of environmental conditions as ecological restoration has become an industry. Therefore, the international society recognizes ecological restoration as an important means of solving environmental problems at the global level, including climate change, and international organizations are actively promoting projects to treat the injured planet. However, most of the restoration projects promoted in Korea were evaluated below the level as a result of the evaluation of the effect. Nevertheless, those who have led low-quality projects are blocking plans to establish ecological restoration as a new industry that can contribute significantly to improving these levels, and thus the problem is expected to worsen. To solve this problem, it is necessary to filter out defective businesses by introducing a strict and correct project evaluation system by dividing it into before and after. Furthermore, it is necessary to establish ecological restoration as an industry and leave the process in the principles of the market.

• The Microorganisms and Industry
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.36-39
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• 1990

해양 생물공학은 잔존하는 기술적인, 산업적인 디딤돌 중에 가장 큰 분야라는 인식하에 선진국에서는 이미 그 생태계 대상을 육지로부터 해양으로 돌려 많은 연구결과가 축적되어 있고 좋은 결실 또한 얻고있다. 따라서 본 총설에서는 1989년 9월 3일 부터 6일 까지 일본에서 개최한 제1회 국제 해양 생물공학학회에서 소개된 연구내용을 중심으로 하여 초근의 동향을 간략하게 기술하고자 한다.

• The Science & Technology
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• no.9 s.412
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• pp.6-8
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• 2003

'고흥 우주센터' 기공/ 한국, 물리올림피아드 첫 우승/ 세계 유수 R&D 연구센터 유치작업 착수/ 여학생 비율 높이는 이공계 대학에 장려금/ 2010년 유망 과학기술분야 직업 30종 선정/ 국내 인터넷 연구 2천 8백만 명/ 병원 · 백화점 등 레지오넬라균 주의보/ 세계 최초 위치인식기능 청소로봇 개발/ 붉은귀 거북, 하천 · 고궁서 생태계 어지럽힌다

• Bulletin of Korea Environmental Preservation Association
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• s.388
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• pp.2-4
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• 2010

4대강 살리기 사업이 많은 논란끝에 지난해 6월 마스터플랜을 세우고 4대강 곳곳에서 이미 공사가 시작되고 있는 상황에서 최근 4대강 살리기 사업의 필요성과 생태 생명 환경의 문제를 둘러싼 논쟁이 다시 가열되고 있다. 충분한 소통이 부족했다는 점을 인식하면서 이제라도 지면으로나마 4대강 살리기가 왜 필요하고 어떤 내용들이 잘못 알려지고 있는지 설명 드리고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers Conference
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.221-226
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• 2002

최근 국내에서는 자연의 보호와 가치를 배려한 개발의 필요성과 그에 수반한 환경 의 다양한 가치가 국민들 사이에 인식되기 시작했다. 때문에 요즈음은 개발계획에 있어서 환경창조, 친환경, 또는 Mitigation 등의 캐치프레이즈 하에 구체적으로 지속 가능한 개발이 가능토록 계획되고 있다. (중략)

• Feed Journal
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• v.2 no.10
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• pp.59-65
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• 2004

21세기의 농업과제는 환경농업을 위한 Recycling 시스템 구축에 있다고 본다. 자연의 생명력을 보호하고 관리하며 이의 효율적 이용을 추구할 수 있는 자연적 생태적 산업시스템의 연구는 인류생존을 위한 필수불가결한 것이라고 본다.1990년 이후 국내 · 외적으로 유기식품에 대한 관심과 인식이 고조됨에 따라 국제식 품격위원회(Codex)에서도 유기농산물 및 식품지침(안)이 결의되었으며, 유기축산물의 국제기준 또한 이미 Codex총회에서 논의된바 있다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the Speleological Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.9-20
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• 2001

국민소득의 향상과 여가생활의 증대로 관광산업은 환경산업과 더불어 미래의 주요산업으로 인식되고 있다. 자연동굴은 신비스러운 내부 경관과 자연생태의 보고라는 교육적 관점에서 매우 훌륭한 관광자원으로 그 가치를 인정받고 있으며 최근에는 자연동굴을 보유하고 있는 지방자치단체의 경우 지역개발 및 관광수입원으로서 자연동굴의 개발에 많은 관심을 보이고 있다. (중략)

• Journal of Climate Change Research
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.281-291
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• 2012

Forests act as carbon sinks and also improve water resources and biodiversity to climate change. Secure funding, administrative support, and sustainable management systems are essential to conserve forests and to implement international forestry related projects to climate change. Public private partnership (PPP) could be an effective way for forestry sector in developing countries. Awareness analysis should be preceded in order to encourage participation of enterprises for the diversification of funding and the enhancing quality of projects. We conducted a survey targeting more than 129 private enterprises for awareness analysis. As a result, lack of information, complexity of processes and low profit resulted in low interest on forest projects from private enterprises. Improving awareness of recipient countries on forest resources, financial and institutional supports from the public sector, information sharing, performance management and equal partnership between sectors were suggested to encourage PPP in international forestry related projects to climate change.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.33-57
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• 2020

Although cryptocurrency which can promote innovation in the blockchain ecosystem is published for many useful purposes, in Korea, cryptocurrency is recognized only as a means of investment for the profit. The fact emphasizes only the speculative nature of the cryptocurrency, so investor negates the fundamental purpose of cryptocurrency and hinders innovation in the blockchain ecosystem. The purpose of this study is to investigate the cause of cryptocurrency perception and speculative behavior of domestic cryptocurrency investors from an academic perspective. We use a model that reflects the traditional considerations and cryptocurrency's characteristics in investment. Using the model, we can explain the cause of misperception of cryptocurrency through the theory of bounded rationality. In building the research model, we use variables of venture and angel investor's consideration used in investment decisions and collect the keywords from indexes of whitepaper to reflect the properties of cryptocurrency. This study mentions that, due to the imitations presented by Simon, individuals are forced to perceive cryptocurrency as a means of speculation and to make irrational decisions that impair ecosystem health. We analyze whether there is a significant difference in rationality in decision made by the sample under limited knowledge and imperfect information constraints. As a result, imperfect information constraints led investors to consider only irrational criteria in decision making. From this result, this study suggests that information asymmetry needs to be relaxed so that investment can be pursued together with rational investment and development of blockchain ecosystem. In addition, the industry can capture strategic insights for successful financing through ICO by enabling better understanding of investor decision-making.