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An Assessment on Environment Friendliness of National Park Facilities in Korea (국립공원 시설의 친환경성 평가)

  • 오구균;권태호;정승준
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.44-53
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this paper is to evaluate environmental friendliness for facilities of national park to improve naturalness of national park. We have evaluated environmental friendliness of the facilities in Chirisan national park in terms of resource conservation and environmental integration, which are consisted of 9 and 8 evaluation indicators, respectively. Environmental friendliness of the small facilities was not good due to not using locally obtained materials and natural material, and that of large and complex facilities was bad in the field of excessive damage during construction, inadequate maintenance, use of natural material, locally obtained material, environmental integration with surroundings. In evaluating environmental attributes, new facilities is better than the older ones. The small facilities appeared to be worse than those of the complex, and the large facilities are the worst in terms of environmental friendliness. In general, environmental friendliness turned out to be lower in the light of the facilities in the clustered area than those of the facilities of the other area. In the future, It is required that criteria for evaluating environmental friendliness of natural park facilities is established.

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An Evaluation of Interior Environmental Affordance and User's Satisfaction with Facilities in Senior Centers (노인복지관의 실내 환경 지원성 평가와 이용자의 시설 만족도)

  • Kim, Sun-Kyung;Kim, Mi-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.87-99
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    • 2010
  • The aim of this study is to evaluate interior environmental affordance for senior centers, to understand users' satisfaction with the facilities of senior centers, and to determine whether users have different levels of satisfaction with the facilities, according to their suitability to interior environmental affordance of facilities. This study will be used for planning the basic materials of the interior environmental design for senior center facilities and for developing ways to improve interior environments in order for them to be conveniently used. In studying a method, we conducted an observatory check to evaluate interior environment affordance, targeting five senior center facilities and their users located in G Metropolitan city. A questionnaire survey was then conducted to examine senior center users' satisfaction with facilities. This study investigated the suitability of center interior environments on the basis of the tools for interior environmental affordance. As a result of the study, users of the senior centers who are unsuitable to interior environmental affordance, have a tendency to be more dissatisfied with the facilities than the users of the senior centers who are suitable to interior environmental affordance

The Relations between Attitude toward Environmental Education and Using Experience of Environmental Education Facilities in Parents who have Elementary Students - Seattle City to - (초등학교 학부모의 환경교육 의식과 환경교육 시설 경험의 관련성에 관한 연구 - 시애틀시를 대상으로 -)

  • Kim, Bum-Soo;Lee, Sook-Jeong
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.18 no.12
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    • pp.1349-1360
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the relations between using experience of environmental education facilities and attitude toward environmental education in parents who have elementary students in Seattle, U.S. The findings of this study represented that elementary parents have a great understanding about the importance of environmental education. Parents have a strong agreement with the necessity of environmental education in childhood. This research also found the differences between grades and facilities for environmental education in expected effect on environmental education and desirable fields of environmental education. The awareness of the importance of environmental education increased according to frequency in using environmental education facilities. In addition, the more the experiences of using various environmental education facilities, such as museum of natural history, science museum, arboretum, and aquarium expanded, the more educational effects positively increased over time.

Estimation and Analysis of VOCs Emissions from Painting and Printing Facilities in Industrial Complexes of Gwangju (광주지역 산업단지 도장·인쇄시설의 휘발성유기화합물 배출 특성 평가)

  • Kim, Seung-Ho;Seo, Dong-Ju;Kim, Ha-Ram;Park, Jin-Hwan;Lee, Ki-Won;Bae, Seok-Jin;Song, Hyeong-Myeong
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.479-494
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    • 2020
  • This study analyses the characteristics of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emissions from the painting and printing facilities, as well as ambient VOCs at industrial complexes in Gwangju. The major components of VOCs emissions from painting facilities were toluene, acetone, 2-butanone, ethyl acetate, ethyl benzene, o-xylene and m,p-xylene. The printing facilities mostly emitted ethyl acetate, 2-butanone, acetone and toluene. Aromatics (49.9%) and oxygenated VOCs (43.6%) were dominant in painting facilities, while oxygenated VOCs (92.7%) were the largest group in printing facilities. The total hydrocarbon concentration (THC) in printing facilities was approximately six times higher than in the painting facilities. The painting and printing facilities use many solvents. Their THC concentrations differed considerably depending on the type of prevention facilities. To reduce THC, it is necessary to improve the prevention facilities and operating conditions. The dominant species of ambient VOCs in industrial complexes were investigated with toluene, ethyl acetate, 2-butanone, ethyl benzene, m,p-xylene, butyl acetate, o-xylene, hexane and acetone. Factor analysis of ambient VOCs showed that the main sources of the VOCs were organic solvents used in painting, coating, and printing, as well as automobile emissions.

A Study on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Planning of Urban Mixed-use Commercial Facilities - Focused on the Users' Consciousness - (도시 복합상업시설의 범죄예방 환경계획을 위한 연구 - 이용자 의식조사를 중심으로 -)

  • Ha, Mi-Kyoung;Lee, Hyo-Chang
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.3-14
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    • 2015
  • The most important issue of modern cities is a crime. Crime prevention through environmental planning is needed in the urban mixed-use commercial facilities which have an important role of modern urban life, and have a positive elements for local society. The purpose of this study is to propose a direction of crime prevention through environmental planning for the urban mixed-use commercial facilities. In order to accomplish this purpose, a questionnaire survey is performed on users of urban mixed-use commercial facilities to evaluate the importance and satisfaction. The conclusions are as follows; 1) Crime prevention through environmental planning is needed in the public space which forms boundary between urban mixed-use commercial facilities and other urban facilities. 2) Safety support planning is necessary for women and children for crime prevention of urban mixed-use commercial facilities. 3) Crime prevention planning is needed in urban mixed-use commercial facilities of the various isolation space. 4) Crime prevention through environmental planning is needed for facilities of after business hours. 5) Various security alarm system considering the characteristics of the space is needed for crime prevention. 6) Community program is necessary in order to increase the utilization of external public space. 7) A sign is necessary to prevent a criminal act in urban mixed-use commercial facilities. 8) The connection of commercial facilities and activity inducing factors is needed.

Analysis on the Actual Environmental Conditions of Domestic and Oversea Police Detention Facilities (국내외 경찰서 유치시설의 환경 실태 분석)

  • Cho, Hyeonmi
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.339-349
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    • 2013
  • The primary purpose of this research was to set up the standard guidelines for the planning of interior architectural environments of the detention facilities at the Korean Police Stations. By visit-studying the actual interior environmental conditions of 5 different kinds' domestic Correcting Facilities and 5 domestic police detention facilities and 2 foreign police detention facilities, comparing them to the existing Korean correctional institutions' cell facilities, that the strengths and weaknesses had been analyzed to extract the main concepts and the planning scheme for the Standard Korean Police Detention Facilities. By reserching the National human Right Commitee's Anual Reports, three different indexes were picked out for those analysis : the Environmental control index, the Detention Service support index, the Environmental support index. These three indexes will be used as Key factors for the planning of interior architectural environments of the detention facilities at the Korean Police Stations.: (1)the Environmental control index to establish the Space Program, the Spatial Hierarchy and the horizontal & vertical Security Blocks, (2)the Detention Service support index for the central Environmental Control & Security System, the Secured Privacy for both detainees & police offices, (3)the Environmental support index for the gender-respected segregation of cell zones, the psychological & physical safety design factors, the construction standards of all rooms in a detention facility. The result of this study should be used as the guidelines for "The Standard Plans and Regulations for the Korean Police Detention Facilities" to respect fundamental human rights.

Estimation of Resident Support Fund Regarding Types of Environmental Foundational Facilities - Focus on Gangwon Provincial Government - (환경기초시설별 주민지원금 산정방안 - 강원도 중심으로 -)

  • Choi, Yong-Bum;Lee, Hae-Seung
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.28 no.9
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    • pp.905-910
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    • 2006
  • This research is conducted to calculate optimum residents grant regarding types of environmental foundational facilities. In the case of Gangwon province, it was particularly referred in this study, the residents grant of waste treatment facilities was excessively discharged as $1.6{\sim}75.0%$ of construction cost. This kind of excessive residents grant has overweighted the local governments' financial conditions. Accordingly, it is necessary to increase the amount of charge on the national treasury. In the calculation method of optimum residents grant reasonable resident support fund of waste treatment facilities was computed the range of 20%, food waste treatment facilities was 10% ranges and sewage and night soil combination treatment facilities was $3{\sim}5%$ ranges.

A Study on the Interior Environmental Planning Factors for Improving Safety and Security in Early Children Facilities (안전성 향상을 위한 유아시설 실내환경 계획요인에 관한 연구)

  • Byun, Gi-Dong;Kwon, Ju-Yeong;Ha, Mi-Kyoung
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.197-205
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    • 2015
  • Recently in most homes, children are mostly cared in early childhood education facilities. However, the increased number of safety accidents on children cared in such facilities has become a social issue. For that, the purpose of this study is to suggest interior environmental planning elements to improve safety level of early childhood education facilities. This study was carried out by performing literature review analysis and survey. First, in total of 42 environmental planning elements that can be applied domestically were derived from analyzing safety related guidelines for children facilities located both domestically and internationally then a survey was carried out targeted for teachers and staffs in the facilities on importance of the factors. The results of this study are as followings. First, it is required to intensify the level of safety related training for teachers and staffs in the facilities including better treatment for them. Second, the necessity of safety environment by each space in such facilities is required to be approached upon the level of child activities. Third, facilities planning and finalizing planning are important for improving safety of early childhood education facilities. Forth, from factor analysis on the extracted environmental planning elements that are considered as important by the teachers from both day care centers and kindergartens, they were categorized in 5 groups including 'collision and fall prevention plan', 'physical characteristic consideration plan', 'evacuation safety plan', 'lock security plan' and 'outer control plan'. It is fair to say that constructing a better safety environment for children can be achieved by the environmental planning factors by this study.

Estimation of stormwater interception ratio for evaluating LID facilities performance in Korea

  • Choi, Jeonghyeon;Lee, Okjeong;Lee, Jeonghoon;Kim, Sangdan
    • Membrane and Water Treatment
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 2019
  • To minimize the impact of urbanization, accurate performance evaluation of Low Impact Development (LID) facilities is needed. In Korea, the method designed to evaluate large-scale non-point pollution reduction facilities is being applied to LID facilities. However, it has been pointed out that this method is not suitable for evaluating the performance of relatively small-scale installed LID facilities. In this study, a new design formula was proposed based on the ratio of LID facility area and contributing drainage area, for estimating the Stormwater Interception Ratio (SIR) for LID facilities. The SIR was estimated for bio-retentions, infiltration trenches and vegetative swales, which are typical LID facilities, under various conditions through long-term stormwater simulation using the LID module of EPA SWMM. Based on the results of these numerical experiments, the new SIR formula for each LID facility was derived. The sensitivity of the proposed SIR formula to local rainfall properties and design variables is analysed. In addition, the SIR formula was compared with the existing design formula, the Rainfall Interception Ratio (RIR).

Simple priority setting method for Screening in public health assessment of waste incineration facilities (폐기물 소각시설 주변 환경보건평가 중 스크리닝 단계에서의 우선순위 선정기법에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Gi Young;Hong, Seung Cheol
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.813-821
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    • 2012
  • Environmental and public health concern for the emission of air pollutants from burn-up process in waste incineration plants located in the vicinity of living environment was increased during the past decade. The purpose of this study was to suggest of the simple and rapid method of priority setting model for the decision of full-scale public health assessment. This method was consists of total 5-step. Step 1 was "secure the satellite map" and we can use the satellite map which serves from the website such as NAVER Co. Step 2 was "drawing mesh on the map" for catch the point of occupation of environmental sensitivity facilities, and step 3 was "identification and sorting of the facilities", Step 4 was "setting of weight" using the "weighted linear combination (WLC) method". Finally, all facility was sorted by score. As a result, we can set a priority of 145 facilities based on 177 facilities which managed in local government. Facilities in Seoul metropolitan area was high rank in priority list. On the other side, Facilities located at the country or rural area was low rank because of low occupation of the house and the environmental sensitivity facilities such as kindergarten, elementary school, and hospital. In this study, we suggested simple and rapid method that using for screening procedure of public health assessment.