• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.303-313
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• 1997

A new evaluation technique, i.e. multicriterion matrix technique, on the vegetation assessment was proposed and compared with several techniques having been previously used in the environmental impact assessment. Four criterias and 10 subcriterias were selected for two evaluation indices such as vegetation naturalness value and vegetation class. These criterias were characterized by syntaxonomical informations of hemeroby concept and potential vegetation, hierarchical system between criterias, and ordinal scale of vegetation naturalness valuse. Vegetation naturalness values were classified into 11 ordinal levels and condensed to five vegetation classes for facilitating practical use. In the example study two sites were compared by using two indices. This technique could have useful applications for ssessment of regional vegetation. A vegetation map of naturalness described by combination of two indices was proposed in order to illustrate regional vegetation naturalness.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제15권7호
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• pp.39-50
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 도시개발 시 저영향개발(Low Impact Development, LID) 기법을 적용하였을 때, 토양 지하수 환경과 생태경관에 미치는 영향을 총체적으로 평가하는 방법의 framework 구축을 목적으로 문헌조사 연구를 수행하였다. 그 결과 토양 지하수 환경생태 건강성은 (i) 수리지질학적 지하수 오염 취약성, (ii) 생화학적 오염도와 (iii) 토양의 오염 정화능력의 여러 요소들에 의해서 측정되어 종합 및 평가되는 것이라는 개념을 설정하였고, 이들 각각의 요소에 미치는 영향 평가를 위한 측정 항목 선정과 각 요소의 측정치를 종합화해서 등급화 및 지표화하는 방법을 제시하였다. 또한 토양 지하수 환경 건강성과 기존의 환경 영향 평가에서 고려하는 생태 및 경관 요소를 GIS(Geographic Information System)와 AHP(Analytic Hierachy Process) 기반을 활용 및 접목하여 토양 지하수뿐만 아니라 생태 경관 등 LID의 자연환경에 미치는 영향을 총체적으로 평가하는 측정 항목 및 지표 산정과 그에 따른 활용 방법을 제시하였다. LID 기술의 계획 및 설계 단계에서 활용할 수 있는 최적화를 위해서 LCIA(Life Cycle Impact Assessment) 방법상의 framework로 활용하는 것을 본 연구에서는 제안하였다.

• 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.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.208-219
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• 2014

This work aims to establish the landscape ecological countermeasures to improve the sustainability of urban mountain forest and to enrich the biodiversity in twenty mountains of the Seoul Metropolitan City. Landscape ecological analysis was conducted based upon various criteria, such as area and elevation of mountains, flora, naturalized plants, vegetation, forest types, mountain trails, and public facilities. Various measures were suggested for the better maintenances of floristic diversity, introduced plants, vegetation and forest types of urban mountain forests. Sustainable recommendations for land use adminstration were developed for the preparations of a climate change-adapted urban mountain forests, as well as rational managements of ecosystem, walking trails, and public facilities within mountain forest. Rich and diverse natural vegetation as well as high floristic diversity were reported at mountains with higher elevations, larger area size, and rich landscape diversity. Mountains with low elevation, small size with easy public access, however, might require an urgent action to decrease the burdens by anthropogenic disturbances and urban development.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.509-523
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• 2012

This basic study is to present the methods and raw data for carrying out to objectively assess an ecosystem by developing the plant ecological indices. The results are as follows. The plant ecological indices were 7 units including RI (Rare Index), EI (Endemic Index), SI (Specific Index), NI (Naturalized Index), UI (Urbanized Index), Pte-Q (Pteridophyta Index) and HI (Halophytes Index). The vascular plants in Mt. Waryong, Mt. Bongmyeong and Bito island were summarized as 471 taxa including 104 families, 294 genera, 419 species, 3 subspecies, 41 varieties and 8 forms. We surveyed 5 taxa of rare plants, 7 taxa of endemic plants, 38 taxa of specific plants by floristic region, 40 taxa of naturalized plants, 1 taxa of invasive alien plant, 19 taxa of pteridophyta and 14 taxa of halophytes. Bito island had the highest RI was 1.2%. Mt. Bongmyeong was 1.4% higher than other sites. If the SI of 2.9% was the highest in Bito island. Bito island was the highest NI, and the UI was the hightest in Mt. Waryong. Mt. Bongmyeong was the lowest NI and UI. In Mt. Waryong and Bito island, the highest DI was 9.1%. The Pte-Q of Mt. Waryong was 1.3 higher than the other sites. Bito island, the highest HI was 8.1%. Overall, 1.5% of RI, 1.9% of EI, 2.3% of SI, 8.5% of NI, 14.3% of UI, 9.1% of DI, 1.0 of Pte-Q and 3.0% were analyzed with HI.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.359-368
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• 2022

개발사업의 부정적인 영향을 감소시킬 수 있는 저감방안의 실효성을 높이기 위해서는 이행률을 높이는 것이 필수적이다. 환경영향평가에서 자연생태환경 동물상 분야의 경우 저감방안에 대한 실효성 문제가 꾸준히 제기되고 있음에도 불구하고 현재 진행되고 있는 개발사업의 이행평가 연구는 미흡한 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구는 환경영향평가사업의 대표적인 유형인 도시 및 도로의 개발사업을 대상으로 자연생태환경 동물상 분야의 저감방안 이행률을 평가하고, 각 저감방안별 이행률 차이가 발생하는 원인에 대해 파악하고자 하였다. 도시 및 도로개발사업 저감방안 이행률은 각 56.0%와 64.4%로 낮게 나타났다. 사후 모니터링은 모든 사업유형에서 이행률이 가장 높게 나타났으나, 서식지 조성과 사고예방 저감방안은 낮게 나타났다. 또한, 저감방안 이행률은 보고서 내 기재된 저감방안 내용이 구체적일 때 높음을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구를 통해 환경영향평가 자연생태환경 동물상 분야 저감방안의 이행률을 높이기 위해서는 평가서 작성 시 대상지의 환경적, 지리적 특성을 구체적으로 반영할 필요가 있으며, 실제로 이행할 수 있도록 상세하게 서술할 필요가 있음을 알 수 있었다. 더 나아가 자연환경에 부정적인 영향을 감소시키기 위해 도입된 환경영향평가 제도의 실효성을 증진하기 위한 기초 근거로서 본 연구가 활용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.30-41
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• 2024

디지털 기술의 급속한 발달로 일하는 방식이 크게 변화하고 있으며, 종이 문서가 전자 문서로 대체되고 있다. 그러나 환경영향평가서는 환경영향평가법 시행령과 시행규칙에 따라 사업과 관련 있는 기관에 정해진 부수의 종이보고서를 제출해야 하고, 이렇게 종이보고서로 제출한 지 약 42년이 경과하였다. 국립생태원에서는 2022년도에 디지털 전환이라는 시대의 흐름에 따라 종이보고서를 전자문서로 검토하는 시스템을 도입하였다. 2022년에 접수하여 검토한 1,398건의 환경영향평가서를 대상으로 전자문서 검토에 따른 비용 절감과 탄소 배출저감 효과를 분석하였다. 전자문서의 검토로 직접적 영향을 받는 제1종 환경영향평가업체를 대상으로 만족도 설문조사를 실시하였으며 총 134명이 응답하였다. 전자문서 검토 효과 분석 결과, 비용은 연간 총 101,424,900원이 절감되고 탄소 배출은 약 59.7톤이 저감되는 것으로 나타났다. 만족도 설문조사 결과, 전자문서 검토가 매우 도움이 된다고 응답한 비율은 94.8%로 매우 높게 나타났고, 도움이 된다고 응답한 비율은 4.5%로 매우 긍적적이었다. 경제적 측면과 업무시간 단축에 도움이 된다고 응답한 비율이 각각 94.8%와 91.8%로 전자문서 검토의 긍정적 효과가 높게 나타났다. 환경영향평가법 시행령과 시행규칙의 개정으로 전자문서 검토를 실시하면 국가 전체적으로 비용 절감과 탄소 저감뿐만 아니라 행정 소요 시간 감소와 보관 공간 절약 등의 파급 효과가 발생할 것으로 예상된다. 디지털 전환 시대에 적합한 법과 행정의 신속한 변화가 필요하다.

• Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.205-215
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• 2011

Ozone ($O_3$) is a main component of photochemical oxidants and a phytotoxic air pollutant. Although the current levels of tropospheric $O_3$ in East Asia could adversely affect productivity of forest tree species, risk assessments of $O_3$ impact were limited. In this paper, we summarize the methodology of risk assessment of $O_3$ on forest tree species based on our two previous studies, risk assessments of $O_3$ impact on the growth of Fagus crenata by Watanabe et al. (2012) and on the annual carbon absorption of three representative conifers, Cryptomeria japonica, Pinus densiflora and Larix kaempferi by Watanabe et al. (2010). $O_3$ sensitivity of each tree species obtained from an experimental study, $O_3$ exposure and atmospheric N deposition based on field monitoring and vegetation survey were integrated by geographic information system method. Based on the results, we conclude that the area with high risk of $O_3$ impact does not necessarily correspond to the area with high $O_3$ exposure. The varieties of tree habitat, tree sensitivity to $O_3$ and annual carbon absorption among the tree species, and N deposition-induced change in the $O_3$ sensitivity of F. crenata are raised as the factors of discordance between areas with high risk and those with high $O_3$ exposure. In the last part of this paper, we discuss the present uncertainty and perspectives of risk assessment for the future studies on the impact of $O_3$ on forest tree species in East Asia.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.335-343
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• 2017

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is an important policy implemented before starting development projects to estimate and reduce environmental impact. However, the difficulty of quantification on several rating categories has hampered comprehensive analysis. Instead of it, the current EIA just summarizes outcome of investigation. Therefore, EIA fails to definitively ascertain whether the development shold be approved or not. This study aimed at providing the way to comprehensive decision-making by applying Emergy analysis and Emergy indicators to EIA. Production (P), Emergy Yield Ratio (EYR), Environmental Loading Ratio (ELR) and Emergy Sustainability Index (ESI) were selected for indicators. The indicators of range approving the development were set up with comparing before and after development or according to circumstances of which view of average that was classified as region or industry is appropriate to analysis. As a result, the value after development of P should be higher than the value before development. EYR and ESI of the value before development should be higher than region or industry average. On the contrary to these, ELR of the value after development should be lower than region or industry average. To verify applying Emergy indicators to EIA comprehensive analysis, Emergy evaluation was conducted to real case. As a result, applying Emergy analysis could suggest whether the development is appropriate or not. These indices and the result of this research are expected to be applied decision-making on environmental impact for sustainable development.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.335-348
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to classify the cities on sustainability assessment score studied in advance using cluster analysis, to present efficient management and policy direction based on analysis of sustainability index in 45 cities of all over Gyeongsangnam and Gyeongsangbuk-do. According to the results of cluster analysis, 45 cities were classed into 4 clusters by "livable-welfare city", "environmental -ecological city", "scientific-technological city", and "industrial-economic city". The livable-welfare cities must keep superior environmental sustainability, promote small and medium sized business on regional characteristic. The environmental-ecological cities have to change agriculture into future environmental industry such as ecotourism, bio-industry and landscape agriculture. The scientific-technological cities are going to need support of government scale such as income enlargement of citizen and stable job security. Finally, the industrial-economic cities must increase environmental management plants and improve quality of life through securing green spaces, maintaining public peace and applying UIS because of low quality of environment and life.