• 제목/요약/키워드: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

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포장용지류에서의 중금속 분석을 위한 산분해 전처리 방법의 탐색 (Considerations of Acid Decomposition System for the Analysis of Heavy Metals in Packaging-grade Paper)

  • 이태주;고승태;김형진
    • 펄프종이기술
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    • 제43권1호
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    • pp.65-73
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    • 2011
  • The fibrous raw materials in packaging-grade paper production in Korea were mainly obtained from waste paper. The use of recycled paper has both positive and negative impacts in papermaking process. The primary positive impacts are the environmental protection and manufacturing cost reduction, and the negative impacts are the quality reduction in paper quality and the accumulation of heavy metals and other pollutants in wet- and dry-end process. This study was carried out to consider the optimum acid decomposition system with the highest recovery rate for the analysis of heavy metals in packaging-grade paper. The open digestion system using Kjeldahl apparatus and the closed digestion system using microwave oven for decomposing the organic materials in paper were compared. In both open and closed digestion method, the combination of nitric acid, hydrochloric acid and hydrogen peroxide showed higher recovery rate than using only nitric acid alone because the presence of Cl- ions in hydrochloric acid stabilizes ligand formation with metal ions. KOCC was observed to have the highest heavy metal content among the recycled paper samples. The heavy metal contents decomposed with the closed digestion system were relatively higher than with open digestion system.

The Pahlev Reliability Index: A measurement for the resilience of power generation technologies versus climate change

  • Norouzi, Nima
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제53권5호
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    • pp.1658-1663
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    • 2021
  • Research on climate change and global warming on the power generation systems are rapidly increasing because of the Importance of the sustainable energy supply, thus the electricity supply since its growing share, in the end, uses energy supply. However, some researchers conducted this field, but many research gaps are not mentioned and filled in this field's literature since the lack of general statements and the quantitative models and formulation of the issue. In this research, an exergy-based model is implemented to model a set of six power generation technologies (combined cycle, gas turbine, nuclear plant, solar PV, and wind turbine) and use this model to simulate each technology's responses to climate change impacts. Finally, using these responses to define and calculate a formulation for the relationship between the system's energy performance in different environmental situations and a dimensionless index to quantize each power technology's reliability against the climate change impacts called the Pahlev reliability index (P-index) of the power technology. The results have shown that solar and nuclear technologies are the most, and wind turbines are the least reliable power generation technologies.

Improving Social Acceptance for Carbon Taxation in South Korea

  • YEOCHANG YOON
    • KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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    • 제45권2호
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    • pp.1-20
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    • 2023
  • Carbon pricing is in the spotlight as an economically efficient policy to limit global warming and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We examine how policymakers can improve social acceptance of a carbon tax, which is the main obstacle in implementing the policy. We conduct a survey experiment to analyze this topic and adopt two different interventions focusing on the use of revenue from a carbon tax and types of information to be provided. Regarding revenue use, we consider 1) tax reductions, 2) lump-sum transfers, and 3) green project investments. For information types, we focus on 1) the economic value of a carbon tax, and 2) the environmental value of a carbon tax. We find that lump-sum transfers have negative impacts on social acceptance of a carbon tax. For those who perceive climate change as a serious issue, moreover, both lump-sum transfers and tax reductions have negative impacts on acceptability. Regardless of the type of information provided, on the other hand, the social acceptance of a carbon tax is increased after the provision of information. Furthermore, the impact of information provision on the social acceptance interacts with the revenue use impacts. When the revenue use and the type of information are consistent with the aim of the policy, the effects of these strategies can be amplified.

The Impact of Recreational Sports Enthusiasts' Willingness to Engage in the Leisure Consumption

  • Dong-Ho SEONG
    • 산경연구논집
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    • 제15권2호
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    • pp.31-39
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    • 2024
  • Purpose: The present research guides to a middle ground where recreational sports and enjoyment justify the basic concept of leisure consumption, exploring an exciting field of study, where participation is the motivational source of recreational sports fans for transferring into the motivation of leisure activities and leisure consumption. Research design, data and methodology: This research took a close look at the current literature to investigate impacts of recreational sports enthusiasts' willingness to engage in the leisure consumption. The screening and excluding procedure took a place to select a qualified prior resources and the present author finally obtained a total of 19 highly relevant papers. Results: The evaluation of the presented research shows that the enthusiasts' participation in avocational sports has four significant implications on their lifestyle and leisure consumption. These impacts are categorized as follows: Economic influence, Psychological influence, Social influence, and Environmental influence. Conclusions: In sum, this study has shown the various ways and magnitude in which willingness to participate in leisure affects its consumption by the recreational sports enthusiast. These impacts have brought critical implications for the viability of the sport leisure business in the industry, particularly in urging it to be the right strategic direction to cater to this market segment.

단계적 변화 분석(gradient analysis)을 적용한 도시화의 공간적 평가 (The use of Gradient Analysis in Spatial Understanding of Urbanization)

  • 이동근;최혜영
    • 환경영향평가
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    • 제17권6호
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    • pp.357-366
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    • 2008
  • It is certain that urbanization has transformed the ecological consequences severely, but urban ecosystem is not fully understood yet. Urban growth is not like a static form and it spreads spatially and temporally. Therefore in studying urban ecosystem, it is important to relate the spatial pattern of urbanization to ecological processes. Using gradient analysis, we attempted to quantify the urbanization's spatial impacts in Daejeon-city and Cheonan-city, Chungcheong-province, Korea. Because of Multifunctional Administrative City Planning (MACP), a lot of development projects are planned in Chungcheong-province, Korea. It's important to study about original cities' patterns and impacts. These results can be adopted to future city planning. So several measures such as fragmentation, vegetation index, surface temperature, population density, and income rate were computed along a 75km long and 3km wide transect. The results showed that Daejeon-city has a wider urban center, lower vegetation indexes, and higher surface temperature than Cheonan-city. Therefore in the perspective of urban environments and sustainable urbanism, it seems that Cheonan-city is better than Daejeon-city. The changes along the transect have important ecological implications, and quantifying the urbanization gradient is an important step in understanding urban ecology.

Global environment change monitoring using the next generation satellite sensor, SGLI/GCOM-C

  • HONDA Yoshiaki
    • 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한원격탐사학회 2005년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2005
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    • pp.11-13
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    • 2005
  • The Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that many collective observations gave a aspect of a global warming and other changes in the climate system. Future earth observation using satellite data should monitor global climate change, and should contribute to social benefits. Especially, human activities has given the big impacts to earth environment This is a very complex affair, and nature itself also impacts the clouds, namely the seasonal variations. JAXA (former NASDA) has the plan of the Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM) for monitoring of global environmental change. SGLI (Second Generation GLI) onboard GCOM-C (Climate) satellite, which is one of this mission, is an optical sensor from Near-UV to TIR. This sensor is the GLI follow-on sensor, which has the various new characteristics. Polarized/multi-directional channels and 250m resolution channels are the unique characteristics on this sensor. This sensor can be contributed to clarification of coastal change in sea surface. This paper shows the introduction of the unique aspects and characteristics of the next generation satellite sensor, SGLIIGCOM-C, and shows the preliminary research for this sensor.

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Numerical Assessment of Reinforcing Details in Beam-Column Joints on Blast Resistance

  • Lim, Kwang-Mo;Shin, Hyun-Oh;Kim, Dong-Joo;Yoon, Young-Soo;Lee, Joo-Ha
    • International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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    • 제10권sup3호
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    • pp.87-96
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    • 2016
  • This numerical study investigated the effects of different reinforcing details in beam-column joints on the blast resistance of the joints. Due to increasing manmade and/or natural high rate accidents such as impacts and blasts, the resistance of critical civil and military infrastructure or buildings should be sufficiently obtained under those high rate catastrophic loads. The beam-column joint in buildings is one of critical parts influencing on the resistance of those buildings under extreme events such as earthquakes, impacts and blasts. Thus, the details of reinforcements in the joints should be well designed for enhancing the resistance of the joints under the events. Parameters numerically investigated in this study include diagonal, flexural, and shear reinforcing steel bars. The failure mechanism of the joints could be controlled by the level of tensile stress of reinforcing steel bars. Among various reinforcing details in the joints, diagonal reinforcement in the joints was found to be most effective for enhancing the resistance under blast loads. In addition, shear reinforcements also produced favourable effects on the blast resistance of beam-column joints.

무인항공기를 이용한 대기갈색연무의 기후효과 연구 (Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to Study on the Climate Impacts of the Atmospheric Brown Clouds)

  • 김상우;윤순창
    • 대기
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    • 제20권4호
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    • pp.519-530
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    • 2010
  • In this paper we review current research on Atmospheric Brown Clouds (ABCs) with lightweight Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and miniaturized instruments. The UAV technology for in-situ measurements, including aerosol concentration, aerosol size distribution, aerosol absorption, cloud drop size distribution, solar radiation fluxes (visible and broadband), and spectral radiative fluxes, is a leading-edge technology for cost-effective atmospheric sounding, which can fill the gap between the ground measurement and satellite observation. The first experimental observation with UAVs in Korea, Cheju ABC Plume Monsoon Experiment (CAPMEX), conducted during summer 2008 revealed that the Beijing plumes exerted a strong positive influence on the net warming and fossil-fuel-dominated black-carbon plumes were approximately 100% more efficient warming agents than biomass-burning-dominated plumes. Long-term sustainable routine UAV measurements will eventually provide truly three-dimensional data of ABCs, which is necessary for the better understanding of their climate impacts and for the improvement of numerical models for air pollution, weather forecast and climate change.

환경규제가 지역경제에 미치는 파급효과 분석 (Impact Analysis on the Regional Economy Affected by Environmental Regulations)

  • 김호언
    • 지역연구
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    • 제15권3호
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 1999
  • Since the 1990's, the most important environmental issue on the earth is characterized by "global worming problem". The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) plays an significant role to solve this problem on a worldwide scale. The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of $CO_2$ reduction on the Daegu regional economy through 1995 regional input-output coefficients derived from the 1995 national input coefficients table by using non-survey method. The sectoral impacts on output, income, and employment were computed under the decline-unequalized assumption in final demand influenced by $CO_2$ reduction. This article has six main sections. Section 1 is an introduction to this paper. Section 2 explains briefly the derivation method of the regional technical coefficients. Section 3 describes the model building through input-output multipliers. In section 4 regional data on output, income, employment and final demand are computed to estimate the regional impacts. Section 5 deals with impact analysis on the Daegu economy. Section 6 contains a brief summary and concludintg remarks. The research findings of this study can be summarized as follows. In 1995, under the assumption of 10% decrease on an average in final demand sectors, the economy of the region studied decreased \3600 billion of output, ₩1114 billion of income, and 49919 man-years of employment. The percent ratios of each value to the total showed 9.4%, 9.7%, and 9.2%, respectively. The dominant sectors associated with impact analysis within the region are chemicals and chemical products, paper, printing and publishing, and textiles and leather, etc; nevertheless, the least dominant sector is non-metallic mineral products. products.

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황해 소난지도 인근해역에서 조류(潮流)에 따른 요각류 개체수의 변화 (Variation in Copepod Abundance Due to Tidal Current Near Sonanjido (Is.) in the Yellow Sea)

  • 김웅서;장민철
    • 환경생물
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    • 제19권2호
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    • pp.137-145
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    • 2001
  • 조류는 동물플랑크톤 분포에 다양한 영향을 미치고 있으나 황해처럼 조류가 빠른 곳에서 동물플랑크톤 분포를 조사하는 경우에도 조류의 영향을 무시하고 하는 경우가 많았다. 뿐만 아니라 황해에서 조류의 영향에 따른 동물플랑크톤의 개체수 변화 자료는 많지 않다. 본 연구에서는 강한 조류의 영향을 받는 소난지도 인근해역에서 시간에 따라 동물플랑크톤 가운데 우점하는 Acartia, Calanopia, Calanus, Centropages, Corycaeus, Labidocera, paracalanus, Tortanus 속에 속하는 요각류의 개체수가 어떻게 변하는지를 조사하였다. 조석 변화에 따른 조류의 유속은 요각류 개체수의 최대 3.5배 차이를 유발하였으며, 대체로 유속이 가장 빠른 저조나 고조 2-3시간 후 채집된 요각류의 개체수가 증가하는 양상을 보였다

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