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Current Status and Perspective of Biological Assessments of Water Environment in Korea (우리나라 생물학적 물환경평가의 현황과 미래)

  • Hwang, Soon-Jin;Kim, Nan-Young;Won, Doo Hee;An, Kwang Kuk;Lee, Jae Kwan;Kim, Chang Soo;Shin, Jae-Ki
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.757-767
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    • 2006
  • Biological assessments are the primary tool for evaluating the biological condition of a water body and makes it possible to understand accumulative and long-term effect of stressors. They also provide reliable biological information for which disturbed systems are to be restored. Sustainable water environment is not enough with attaining only the clean water, but it should sustain healthy and diverse aquatic life. Aquatic organisms are affected by various factors, including not only water quality but also habitat condition and stressors, and thus good condition of both physical and chemical water quality is prerequisite for sustaining healthy organisms. Therefore, biological assessment, along with other physical and chemical assessments, are crucial for evaluating the health of a water body. Overall, sustainability of water environment demands the attainment and maintenance of ecological integrity, which is resulted from the combination of physical, chemical and biological integrity. The biological criteria will play very important role in the water resource management and policy issues, and thus bioassessment program should be fully implemented and supported eventually by the law. To keep ecosystem health of water environment safely from the toxic pollutants and other stressors, the following suggestions need to be considered in environmental quality standards in Korea. For the first step, the biological indicators need to be introduced in evaluating river quality condition; they provide a qualitative description of biological condition of water body. Secondly, the biological water quality standards using biotic indices should be developed and implemented under the consideration of characteristics of Korean river systems. Lastly, the ecological status classification regime (ESCR) should be developed and introduced; it could be used in quality assessment of the water environment in general. In developing ESCR, integration of physico-chemical, biological, and habitat parameters should be taken into account.

A Study on Design Directives for the Elderly Housing Environment -based on an ecological approach- (생태학적 접근으로 본 노인 주거환경계획 지침에 관한 연구)

  • 우정민;홍형옥
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 1999.04a
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    • pp.11-15
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    • 1999
  • By taking an ecological approach, The purpose of this study was to 1. analyze the existing literary work about design directives for the elderly housing, 2. case study about actual housing conditions of elderly people, and analyze the level of satisfaction and level of requirement about housing environment by Korean elderly, By integrating the above three, suggested foundational data arranging the appropriate housing design directives pertaining to Korea's catual circumstances.

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Study on the Wild Ginseng and Cultured Ginseng in Northeast of China

  • Wang, Zhang-Huai;Li, Chang-Hai;Zhang, Cheong-Gang;Wang, Xiao-Dong
    • Proceedings of the Ginseng society Conference
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    • 1998.06a
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    • pp.109-114
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    • 1998
  • The northeast of China is the main productive area of wild ginseng, including Changbai Mountains the south of Little Xingan Mountains, Wanda Mountains and Zahang Guangcai Mountains. The author has been oberving the ecological environment of ginseng in more than 20 sites for 20 years and obtains a great deal of ecological environment data about the growth and development of ginseng. This research can provide theoretical basis for the development of ginseng culture and the protection of ginseng resource.

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An Ecological Study on Infant-Mother Attachment in a Nonmaternal Care (타인 양육 영아-어머니 애착에 대한 생태학적 연구)

  • 양연숙
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.40 no.7
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2002
  • This study investigated infant, mother/famny, and nonmaternal care characteristics contribution to infant- mother attachment through ecological perspective. Participants were forty 12-to 18-month-o1d infants and their mothers. Infants were observed in the Strange Situation to assess the pattern of infant-mother attachment; the Observational Ratings of the Caregiving Environment was used to assess the caregiving environment. Mothers were interviewed with the questionnaires, and observed in the laboratory "living room". There were significant effects of material sensitivity/responsiveness and good quality child care on secure attachment. Infant, mother/family, and nonmaternal care characteristics were mutually related.

What is 'Landscape Architecture'? (뉴스초점 - 조경(造景)의 이해)

  • Kim, Yun-Che
    • Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.49-53
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    • 2012
  • It has been a common misconception that landscape architecture is a gardening, landscape gardening or planting. However, landscape architecture is entirely different from gardening, landscape gardening and planting when it comes to professional category. Landscape architecture is a interdisciplinary science to improve a quality of citizen's life through analysing social culture, psychological configuration, aesthetic characteristic and integrating them in human society. Today's landscape architecture is a interdisciplinary technology including ecological and artistic value to create most of outdoor space used by human through preserving nature and enhancing the environment. The field has been changed constantly in the flow of the period and social development as providing green network system, recreation area, ecological environment in the city.

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Cultural Ecology on the Village Fengshui (마을풍수의 문화생태 - 지리산권역의 마을을 사례로 -)

  • Choi, Won-Suk
    • Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.259-269
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    • 2011
  • The meaning of fengshui was another cultural ecological environment in the pre-modern in Korea. Village residents made interrelations with village natural environment by the medium of the geomantic landscape. The functions of cultural ecology through the village fengshui are as follows: the spatial location, the population inflow, the regulation of the community's production or construction or land-use, the adjustment of the environmental carrying capacity, the environmental management, the forming of the collective environmental perception and attitude. Village fengshui is a cultural adaptation strategy to the local environment for the village residents. Fengshui can be evaluated as a traditional cultural ecological way and knowledge system for keeping sustainable village environment in East Asia.

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A Study on the Application of Regional Environmental Assessment to Small Area Development -The case of small area development in Hwasung-City, Gyunggi-Do- (소규모 개발사업에 대한 토환경영향성평가 적용에 관한 연구 - 경기도 화성시 소규모 개발 사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Oh, Seung Ryun;Kang, Seon-Hong
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.619-630
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    • 2009
  • The study area investigated in this research is Hwaseong city, Gyeonggi-Do where small scale development is currently in progress. For the last three years, we carried out the environmental and ecological assessment by using data from The Ministry of Environment and Han River Basin Environmental Office. Most of development works in Hwaseong city, Gyeonggi-Do are small scale developments which are related with factory and distribution complex based on individual laws and regulations. However, environmental and ecological assessment is not being sufficiently reflected beforehand. Especially, because the development takes place mainly in the outskirts of the city, the fine forest is continuously being damaged. We analyzed changes in green zone caused by the developments. As a result, the percentage of original green zone was decreasing while the percentage of artificial green zone was increasing. We should maintain the percentage of the original green zone in order to conserve natural environment. In the past three years, the damage of the DGN (Degree of Green Naturality, 7) area that has high conservative value was little, but, there was serious damage in the area of DGN 6. In order to conserve natural environment, political and institutional investigation should be seriously carried out for mitigation of environmental and ecological damages.