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A Study on 'the Ecological Archive' in the Anthropocene (인류세 시대 '생태 아카이브' 구축에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Kyong Rae
    • The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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    • no.68
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    • pp.205-241
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    • 2021
  • This article explores how to incorporate the topic of the global environmental crisis called the "anthropocene" into archives studies and connect it to ecological practical reasons. In order to encourage discussion of archival studies, which puts the environmental crisis at a kind of archive constant value, this study seeks to examine the possibility of a quality shift in archival studies based on ecology. This article aims to go beyond the pragmatism of preparing improvements to eco-friendly record management, which is recently claimed by the "Green Archive" in Western archival studies. It calls for a new concept called 'ecological archive', which theoretically combines a more archives-based and ecological paradigm, and its epistemological transformation. Specifically, the ecological approach of archives is first discovered in the discussion of archival studies and at the same time, through the "ecological turn" of archives emphasized by recent anthropocene discourses, the concept of "ecological archive" emphasized by this article is embodied. This study uses 'ecological archive' as a universal and theoretical framework for archives as a basic concept for building ecological 'living' archives. In other words, for the construction of ecological archives, we reinterpret and extend so-called democratic values for archives, i.e., post-custodianship, community archives, and archives of emotions. Finally, the records of foot-and-mouth disease killing burial sites, an important site and example of the anthropocene tragedy, exemplifies the methodology of the actual application of ecological living archives. The case analysis aims to seek a new qualitative shift in record management that adapts to global ecological transformation, while also emphasizing the documentation by archival activism in ecological field practices jointly organized by archivists and citizens.

A Study of the Reuse of Old Industrial Facilities through Ecological Design (에콜로지컬디자인을 통한 노후산업시설의 재활용에 관한 연구)

  • Yu, Wen-Ting;Hong, Kwan-Seon
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.144-151
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    • 2015
  • With expansion of modern cities, a huge number of old industrial facilities have been abandoned. Thus, in the development of ecological city, this study aims to conclude on these old facilities and their ecological landscape designs by analyzing successful cases. The approaches adopted are as follows. Starting with literature review, whereby old industrial facility's definition and developing process are pinpointed, the paper studies representative cases with reuse and re-development theories of ecological design for old industrial facilities, of which renovation types, reuse effects, and design features are particularly examined. Case studies also demonstrate considerations in ecological reuse designs, such as ecological restoration, energy conservation, rainwater collection, and utmost pollution reduction, etc. However, technology, environment and circumstance differences determine that each design project requires concrete analysis, which should also be considered in future ecological design for old industrial facilities.

A case study of ECN data conversion for Korean and foreign ecological data integration

  • Lee, Hyeonjeong;Shin, Miyoung;Kwon, Ohseok
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.41 no.5
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    • pp.142-144
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    • 2017
  • In recent decades, as it becomes increasingly important to monitor and research long-term ecological changes, worldwide attempts are being conducted to integrate and manage ecological data in a unified framework. Especially domestic ecological data in South Korea should be first standardized based on predefined common protocols for data integration, since they are often scattered over many different systems in various forms. Additionally, foreign ecological data should be converted into a proper unified format to be used along with domestic data for association studies. In this study, our interest is to integrate ECN data with Korean domestic ecological data under our unified framework. For this purpose, we employed our semi-automatic data conversion tool to standardize foreign data and utilized ground beetle (Carabidae) datasets collected from 12 different observatory sites of ECN. We believe that our attempt to convert domestic and foreign ecological data into a standardized format in a systematic way will be quite useful for data integration and association analysis in many ecological and environmental studies.

Evaluation indicators for the restoration of degraded urban ecosystems and the analysis of restoration performance (훼손된 도시생태계 생태복원 평가지표 제시 및 복원성과 분석)

  • Sohn, Hee-Jung;Kim, Do-Hee;Kim, Na-Yeong;Hong, Jin-Pyo;Song, Young-Keun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.97-114
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    • 2019
  • This study aims to analyze the effect of urban ecosystem restoration projects by evaluating the short-term restoration performance of the project sites, from both qualitative and quantitative evaluations. In this study, for the qualitative evaluation, we derived the evaluation frame from previous studies and literature. For the quantitative evaluation, the changes in ecological connectivity after the restoration project were described using landscape permeability and network analysis. In addition, changes in habitat quality after the restoration project were evaluated by using InVEST Habitat Quality Model. These evaluations were applied to the three natural madang (ecological restoration) projects and two ecosystem conservation cooperation projects. As a result, three categories, 10 indicators, and 13 sub-indicators were derived from literature as the evaluation frame for this study. In the case of quantitative evaluation of restoration performance, habitat quality increased by 45% and ecological connectivity by 37% in natural-madang, and habitat quality by about 12% and ecological connectivity by about 19% in ecosystem conservation cooperation projects. This implies that the ecological restoration project can increase the ecological connectivity and the habitat quality of degraded sites even in a short period of time by improving the land-cover and land use. The results by applying the evaluation frame indicated that ecological and environmental factors and the ecological functions were improved by the restoration works, even though the magnitude of performances were diverse depending on the specific evaluation items, project type, and site characteristics. This study clarified that the success of ecological restoration project should be assessed by both of the short-term and long-term goals, which can be achieved by the maintenance and sustainable management, respectively.

An Attempt for Constructing a New Paradigm of Home Economics - Ecological Approach and An Integrative Model - (가정학의 새로운 패러다임 구축을 위한 시론 II-통합적 모형)

  • Yoo Young-Ju;Sohn Jung-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.37 no.12 s.142
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    • pp.179-192
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    • 1999
  • Thesedays, Home Economic in Korea is faced with the danger of a discord caused by the outer pressure of reorganization in the process educational reformation. The first purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of the informatized society and the changes of families lived in the informatized society. The second was to assert to strengthen Home Economics in the informatized society. Ultimately we suggested an integrative and interdisciplinary model about Home Economics from the ecological and informative perspective. This model consist with three parts: Human development(Child studies, Gerontology, & Adolescent studies) and family studies division(Family relation studies, family resource management studies, & Consumer studies) Environmental division(Clothing and Textiles, Food and Nutrition, & Housing) and HEIS(Home Economics Information System). This classification is correspond with the one Human-Behavioral Environment and Human-Constructed Environment of Ecological theory.

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Growth and Photosynthetic Responses of Cuttings of a Hybrid Larch (Larix gmelinii var. japonica x L. kaempferi) to Elevated Ozone and/or Carbon Dioxide

  • Koike, Takayoshi;Mao, Qiaozhi;Inada, Naoki;Kawaguchi, Korin;Hoshika, Yasutomo;Kita, Kazuhito;Watanabe, Makoto
    • Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.104-110
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    • 2012
  • We studied the effects of elevated ozone ([$O_3$]) and $CO_2$ concentrations ([$CO_2$]) on the growth and photosynthesis of the hybrid larch $F_1(F_1)$ and on its parents (the Dahurian larch and Japanese larch). $F_1$ is a promising species for timber production in northeast Asia. Seedlings of the three species were grown in 16 open top chambers and were exposed to two levels of $O_3$ (<10 ppb and 60 ppb for 7 h per day) in combination with two levels of $CO_2$ (ambient and 600 ppm for daytime) over an entire growing season. Ozone reduced the growth as measured by height and diameter, and reduced the needle dry mass and net photosynthetic rate of $F_1$, but had almost no effect on the Dahurian larch or Japanese larch. There was a significant increase in whole-plant dry mass induced by elevated [$CO_2$] in $F_1$ but not in the other two species. Photosynthetic acclimation to elevated [$CO_2$] was observed in all species. The net photosynthetic rate measured at the growing [$CO_2$] (i.e. 380 ppm for ambient treatment and 600 ppm for elevated $CO_2$ treatment) was nevertheless greater in the seedlings of all species grown at elevated [$CO_2$]. The high [$CO_2$] partly compensated for the reduction of stem diameter growth of $F_1$ at high [$O_3$]; no similar trend was found in the other growth and photosynthetic parameters, or in the other species.

Analysis of Ecological Elements in the Nursery Rhymes, Stories, and Plays of the Guide for Educational Activities and Materials for Kindergarten (『유치원 활동 지도 자료집』에 수록된 동시·동화·동극의 생태적 요소 분석)

  • Shin, Se Ni;Seo, Young Hee;Kim, Eun Ju;Han, Mi Ra;Lim, Boo Yeun;Jo, Hea Soog
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.163-173
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    • 2007
  • This study analyzed ecological elements of 140 nursery rhymes, stories, and plays in the $6^{th}$ edition of the Guide for Educational Activities and Materials for Kindergarten. The results show that 24 works(17.1%) have ecological elements. Content analysis of ecological elements in these works show works that deal with the side effects of environmental development(3 nursery stories), the cult of nature(1 nursery rhyme), recognition of the eco-cycle(2 nursery rhymes, 4 stories, 2 plays), dignity of life and recovery of human nature(12 nursery stories). On the basis of the results, children's literature containing ecological elements were suggested.

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Ecological land cover classification of the Korean peninsula Ecological land cover classification of the Korean peninsula

  • Kim, Won-Joo;Lee, Seung-Gu;Kim, Sang-Wook;Park, Chong-Hwa
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.679-681
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    • 2003
  • The objectives of this research are as follows. First, to investigate methods for a national-scale land cover map based on multi-temporal classification of MODIS data and multi-spectral classification of Landsat TM data. Second, to investigate methods to p roduce ecological zone maps of Korea based on vegetation, climate, and topographic characteristics. The results of this research can be summarized as follows. First, NDVI and EVI of MODIS can be used to ecological mapping of the country by using monthly phenological characteris tics. Second, it was found that EVI is better than NDVI in terms of atmospheric correction and vegetation mapping of dense forests of the country. Third, several ecological zones of the country can be identified from the VI maps, but exact labeling requires much field works, and sufficient field data and macro-environmental data of the country. Finally, relationship between land cover types and natural environmental factors such as temperature, precipitation, elevation, and slope could be identified.

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A Study on the Planning of the Eco-Villages for Aging Society - Focused on the Cases of the Environmental Co-Housings in Western America - (고령화 사회를 위한 생태 공동주거 계획에 관한 연구 - 미 서부 생태 공동주거 단지 사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Koo, Jae Oh
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.111-116
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    • 2010
  • Ecological villages should be designed not only for simply reducing environmental impact such as energy saving and alternative energy use, resource conservation and circulation, harmony with surrounding environment and nature, but also for encouraging social contact and community activities with the residents, especially the aged people. The aim of this paper is to find the ecological and social design elements for the ecological village planning derived through case studies. The case studies are selected from the environmental Co-housings in Western America, surveyed in the years of 2008 and 2009. The results are as follows; 1. The ecological design elements, although there are some differences in size and type, were found to be basically applied in every ecological villages. 2. The community activities are actively conducted with the participation of the residents based on a variety of programs. The two main purposes of the community activities are strengthening the residents' familiarity with each other and the volunteer services to the local community where they belong.

Exploring Community Structure and Function with Network Analysis: a Case Study of Cheonggye Stream (생태계 네트워크 분석을 이용한 생물 군집의 구조와 기능에 대한 연구: 청계천을 사례로)

  • Lee, Minyoung;Kim, Yongeun;Cho, Kijong
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.370-376
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    • 2018
  • It is important to consider interaction between species in understanding structure and function of the biological community. Current ecological issues such as climate change and habitat loss emphasize the significance of the concept of species interaction in that varying species' interaction across environmental gradients may lead to altered ecological function and services. However, most community studies have focused on species diversity through analysis of quantitative indices based on species composition and abundance data without considering species interactions in the community. 'Ecological network analysis' based on network theory enables exploration of structural and functional properties of ecosystems composed of various species and their interactions. In this paper, network analysis of Cheonggye stream as a case study was presented to promote uses of network analysis on ecological studies in Korea. Cheonggye stream has a simple biological structure with link density of 1.48, connectance 0.07, generality 4.43, and vulnerability 1.94. The ecological network analysis can be used to provide ecological interpretations of domestic long-term monitoring data and can contribute to conserving and managing species diversity in ecosystems.