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Environmental Impact Assessment of the Carbody of a Electric Motor Unit(EMU) Using Simplified Life Cycle Assessment(S-LCA) (간략화 전과정 평가(S-LCA) 기법을 이용한 전동차 구체의 환경성 평가)

  • Lee Jae-Young;Mok Jai-Kyun;Jeong In-Tae;Kim Yong-Ki
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.8 no.6 s.31
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    • pp.520-524
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    • 2005
  • It is consequential to reduce the environmental impact of a product for sustainable development in 21st Century. In the field of transportation, especially, the technological market concerned about reduction and assessment of greenhouse gas emission is expected to be extended. The LCA gas been esteemed and utilized as a realistic alternative greenhouse gas emission is expected to be extended. The LCA has been esteemed and utilized as a realistic alternative to improve the environment by the assessment of environmental impacts. In this study, simplified life cycle assessment(S-LCA), was performed to analyze the environmental impacts quantitatively, which were produced through the life cycle of a electric motor unit(EMU). The object of the present work is rth investigate main parameters of environmental impacts and to establish the plans to improve the environment impact of EMU. As a result of quantitative assessment for environmental impact and manufacturing, the EMU carbody made of SUS showed acidification(AD) and marine water aquatic ecotoxicity(MAET) the most, while that made of Mild showed high impact of global warning(GW) and abiotic resources depletion(ARD). For the SUS EMU, the high AD and MAET impact is occurred by the discharged pollutants during acid-washing process. Also, high value of GW and ARD for Mild EMU is resulted from the consumption of iron ore, coal and crude oil during manufacturing. Therefore, the environment impact of carbody would be decreased by enhancing of energy efficiency and the lightening the weight of it.

Strategy for Development and Management of a Long-term Heatwave Plan Addressing Climate Change (기후변화에 따른 폭염 중장기적 적응대책 수립 및 관리 방안)

  • Choi, Jihye;Ha, Jongsik
    • Journal of Environmental Policy
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.21-40
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    • 2015
  • Heat waves are not new, but due to climate change, the probability of occurrence and severity of heat waves increases, which results in more adverse impacts and damages on local community. Accordingly, the need to tackle heat waves in a more comprehensive and precautionary manner increases. Our study therefore lays emphasis on 1) a long-term plan which not only includes short-term plans in response to the observed damages, but also incorporates relevant sectors to deal with potential impacts in longer term perspective; and 2) a mechanism to manage and adjust the plan in a sustainable manner. In doing so, it examines the impacts of heatwaves and existing plans to tackle them. Based on that, two key conceptual frameworks, namely policy integration and adaptive management, are applied to provide strategies for the development and management of a long-term adapting heatwave plan addressing climate change.

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The Effects of Experience and Environment Factors in Offline Stores on the Perceived Value and Revisit Intention (오프라인 매장의 체험특성과 환경특성이 지각된 가치 및 재방문의도에 미치는 영향)

  • Chen, Yi Tao;Park, Hyun Jung
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.167-178
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    • 2019
  • This research examined how the experience factors and environmental factors of experience store impact the perceived value of the brand and whether the perceived value enhance revisit intention. We collected 258 survey responses and formed structural equation modeling. The results indicated that education experience and esthetics experience had positive impacts on emotional value, while entertainment experience had a positive impact on functional value. Among environment factors, lighting, employee service and layout of the store had positive impacts on functional value, while lighting and employee service had positive impacts on emotional value. Both of the functional value and emotional value enhanced the revisit intention of customers. The results of this study are expected to provide useful information about consumers to the companies managing offline experience stores.

Effect of Climate Change Characteristics on Operation of Water Purification Plant (정수장 운영에 영향을 미치는 기후변화 요인 분석)

  • Youjung Jang;Hyeonwoo Choi;Seojun Lee;Jaeyoung Choi;Hyeonsoo Choi;Heekyong Oh
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.89-100
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    • 2024
  • Climate change has a broad impact on the entire water environment, and this impact is growing. Climate adaptation in water supply systems often involves quantity and quality control, but there has been a lack of research examining the impacts of climatic factors on water supply productivity and operation conditions. Therefore, the present study focused on, first, building a database of climatic factors and water purification operating conditions, and then identifying the correlations between factors to reveal their impacts. News big data was analyzed with keywords of climatic factors and water supply systems in either nationwide or region-wide analyses. Metropolitan area exhibited more issues with cold waves whereas there were more issues with drought in the Southern Chungcheong area. A survey was conducted to seek experts' opinions on the climatic impacts leading to these effects. Pre-chlorination due to drought, high-turbidity of intake water due to rainfall, an increase of toxins in intake water due to heat waves, and low water temperature due to cold waves were expected. Pearson correlation analysis was conducted based on meteorological data and the operating data of a water purification plant. Heavy rain resulted in 13 days of high turbidity, and the subsequent low turbidity conditions required 3 days of high coagulant dosage. This insight is expected to help inform the design of operation manuals for waterworks in response to climate change.

Residents' Attitudes toward Natural Environment and Perceptions on Recreation Forest Development (지역주민(地域住民)의 자연환경태도(自然環境態度) 수준(水準)이 휴양림(休養林) 개발(開發) 지각(知覺)에 미치는 영향(影響))

  • Song, Hyung Sop
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.88 no.2
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    • pp.205-212
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    • 1999
  • The purposes of this study were to investigate the influence of local residents' nature environment attitudes to recreation forest development impact perceptions and to examine application possibility of nature environment attitude to resolution information of recreation forest management conflicts. 30 items of residents' perceptions and opinions were designed from previous tourism impact studies. The new environmental paradigm(NEP) was used to measure local residents' nature environment attitudes. In October 1995, 204 questionnaires were obtained from interview survey in local residents' villages near two recreation forests. Generally most local residents perceived low economic effects and negative environment impacts for recreation forest development. Nature environment attitude levels were significant differences due to socioeconomic variables of local residents, specially high in age, education level and influenced their perceptions toward recreation forest development impacts. The results suggested that the nature environment attitudes could be provided a useful referential framework in resolution of recreation forest management conflicts.

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Public Attitudes to Saemangeum Development Project and Its Effects on Marine Environment (새만금 개발사업이 해양환경에 미치는 영향에 대한 인식)

  • Baek, Min-Ji;Choi, Hyo-Yeon;Yoo, Seung-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.492-500
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    • 2015
  • This paper attempts to analyze the public's attitudes about the Saemangeum development project and its impact on marine environment with the data from a national survey of 1,000 households obtained by a professional survey firm with face-to-face interviews using two split samples: a sample of 400 households in on-site area (Saemangeum area) and a sample of 600 households in off-site area (the nation except for Saemanguem area). More specifically, ordered probit model is employed to investigating the factors affecting the public attitudes to the Saemanguem development project. The results show that over 70 percentage of respondents in both the samples opposed Saemanguem development project when they considered its economic gain and impacts on marine environment at the same time. Futhermore, over 90 percentage of respondents judged that environmental management of Saemanguem open sea is necessary. Therefore, making appropriate actions are required to manage marine environment of Saemanguem open sea.

Life Cycle Assessment(LCA) of Rolling Stock (철도차량시스템의 전과정평가(LCA))

  • Kim Yong-Ki;Yoon Hee-Taek;Jung Woo-Sung
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.533-538
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    • 2004
  • Rolling Stock life cycle can not provide weakness of environment due to the absence DB on about environment information for contaminant, expense analysis on each step which consists of raw material-design-manufacture-running-waste step. In order to estimate environmental impacts on LCA for rolling stock system, scientifically and internationally fair standards of assessment method for pursuing environmental friendly in environment regulation policy, application of LCA system is proposed and introduced in the present paper.

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A study on trade show's service quality, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty (무역전시회의 서비스품질, 고객만족 및 고객충성도에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Yunsil
    • International Commerce and Information Review
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.359-378
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    • 2015
  • This study intends to provide strategic implication for enhancing trade show's competitiveness by analyzing its structural relationships among service quality, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. In order to measure service quality factors influencing customer satisfaction and customer loyalty, the empirical analysis was conducted on three kinds of service quality (physical environment quality, interaction quality, outcome quality). The study results indicated that all of the physical environment quality, interaction quality and outcome quality had positive impacts on customer satisfaction. In relationship between service quality factors and customer loyalty, interaction quality and outcome quality showed positive impacts on customer loyalty, whereas physical environment quality did not. The customer satisfaction turned out to have positive impact on customer loyalty.

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High-resolution Simulation of Meteorological Fields over the Coastal Area with Urban Buildings (건물효과를 고려한 연안도시지역 고해상도 기상모델링)

  • Hwang, Mi-Kyoung;Kim, Yoo-Keun;Oh, In-Bo;Kang, Yoon-Hee
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.137-150
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    • 2010
  • A meso-urban meteorological model (Urbanized MM5; uMM5) with urban canopy parameterization (UCP) was applied to the high-resolution simulation of meteorological fields in a complex coastal urban area and the assessment of urban impacts. Multi-scale simulations with the uMM5 in the innermost domain (1-km resolution) covering the Busan metropolitan region were performed during a typical sea breeze episode (4~8 August 2006) with detailed fine-resolution inputs (urban morphology, land-use/land-cover sub-grid distribution, and high-quality digital elevation model data sets). An additional simulation using the standard MM5 was also conducted to identify the effects of urban surface properties under urban meteorological conditions. Results showed that the uMM5 reproduced well the urban thermal and dynamic environment and captured well the observed feature of sea breeze. When comparison with simulations of the standard MM5, it was found that the uMM5 better reproduced urban impacts on temperature (especially at nighttime) and urban wind flows: roughness-induced deceleration and UHI (Urban Heat Island)-induced convergence.