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Review of Environmental Assessment for Climate Factors in Urban Planning (도시계획에서의 기후요소 평가기법에 관한 고찰)

  • Eum, Jeong-Hee
    • Journal of Environmental Policy
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.27-48
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    • 2012
  • The aim of this paper is to review the environmental assessment of urban climatic factors relating to urban planning in Korea and Germany, and suggest efficient ways to consider climatic factors in the environmental assessment process for urban planning in Korea. For these purposes, current assessment systems concerning urban master plan and urban management plan in Korea were reviewed to know how urban climatic factors are assessed. Furthermore, two German cases of Strategic Environmental Assessment were investigated to know how urban climatic factors are assessed and considered in the urban and regional planning of Germany. Based on the results, efficient ways to consider climatic factors in the environmental assessment for urban planning were suggested from three aspects of factors, methods and available data for climate assessment.

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Factors Influencing Environmental Accounting Information Disclosure of Listed Enterprises on Vietnamese Stock Markets

  • NGUYEN, Tung Dao
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.7 no.11
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    • pp.877-883
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of the article is to evaluate the factors that affect the degree of environmental accounting information disclosure. Data are collected from 87 industry companies listed on the Vietnamese stock market from 2009 to 2019. I focus on the effect of factors such as the Firm size, Profitability, Leverage, Firm age, and Independent auditors. To explain the causal relationship between factors, I construct the regression model and then test it by using different statistical method approaches, including the pooled OLS, the fixed effects model, and the random effects model. Then I conduct testing of model defects: White Test, Wooldridge Test, Hausman Test, and Wald Test. The Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) method is used to analyze the image factors that affect environmental accounting information disclosure. The results show that the extent of environmental accounting information disclosure is influenced by factors: firm size, uptime and independent audit. These factors positively affect the level of environmental accounting information disclosure; independent audit has the greatest influence. Based on the research results, the author gives recommendations to improve the disclosure of environmental accounting information for industrial enterprises listed on the Vietnamese stock market, increasing the competitiveness of the public company in terms of global integration.

Evaluation of Environmental Education of Public Servants in NIERD based on CIPP Model (CIPP 모형에 기반한 국립환경인력개발원의 공무원 환경교육에 대한 평가)

  • Seo, Woo-Seok;Kim, Jin-Mo;Jeon, Yeang-Uk
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.106-117
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study was to evaluate the environmental education of public servants in National Institute of Environmental Human Resource Development(NIERD). Based on CIPP model, Evaluation areas and items were made. The data were collected through interviews, questionnaires and training and development team's internal information from November, 2005 to January, 2006. Based on the interviews and survey of 11 employee from training and development team, context factors, input factors, process factors, product factors were evaluated. The major findings of this study were as follows: First, the problem of the environmental education of environmental officials indicated lack of interest about education of Ministry of Environment, lack of education expense, lack of expertise of employee in training and development team, and so on. Second, the curriculum for environmental officials was not considered the environmental officials' readiness for education, developmental level and competency. Suggestions for future research were offered.

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A Study on the Evaluation of Environmental Friendliness in the Bundang Area (분당 지역 주거환경의 환경친화성에 대한 조사 연구)

  • Park Nam-Hee;Kim June-Young
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the factors of environmental friendliness perceived among residents, and to provide housing designers and housing policy makers with the relevant information. Literature review and questionnaire survey were used in this research. Data drawn from 320 residents living in the Bundang area were analyzed. Data were analyzed with the SPSS PC+ 11.0 window version. The results were summarized as follows: 1) Residents were satisfied with the amenity of their residential environment but they were unsatisfied with other ecosystem among environment friendly factors. And they pointed out that three factors are very important factors among environmental friendliness, which are the environmental friendliness apartment community plan, the minimization of environmental pollution, the energy saving. 2) There was significant difference the evaluation of environmental friendly factors according to sex, age, educational level of wife, and income. Especially, women are unsatisfied with environmental friendliness of their residential environment and it was founded that the older the age, the more positive evaluation on their residential environment. 3) There was significant difference in the evaluation of environmental friendly factors according to location, housing type, homeownership, and residential period. Location was related to the amenity of their residential environment, housing type, homeownership, and residential period were related to the convenience of their residential environment.

Studies on the Phisical Environmental Factor Analysis for Water Quality Management in Man-made Lake of Korea (국내 인공댐호의 물리적 환경인자에 의한 호수특성 고찰에 관한 연구)

  • 김좌관;홍욱희
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.49-57
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    • 1992
  • First, We classified man-made lakes in Korea as 4-type lakes, that is, there were River-run lakes, Dendritic lakes, Reservoir-lakes, River-mouth lakes, We studied on the environmental factors of 3-type lakes except River-mouth lakes, compared these lakes with natural lakes in foreign country. Environmental factors were watershed area, lake storage, mean depth, hydraulic retention time. As a results, 3-type lakes in Korea had remarkable differences one another according to above-mentioned environmental factors. First, We recognized that River-run lakes had higher nutrient loading according to having wider watershed area than natural lakes, and had lower algal growth rate according to shorter hydraulic retention time than natural lakes. Dendritic lake had higher nutrient loading than natural lakes, longer retention time than River-run lake. Reservoir-lakes had environmental factors between Dentritic lakes and River-run lakes. Therefore, If this studies had no quantitative results about various factors, We recognized that man-made lakes in korea had different environmental factors as compared with natural lakes, and had clear classification among 3-type lakes.

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Evaluation of Indoor Environmental Factors in Office Building with Underfloor Air-Conditioning (UFAC) System

  • Chung, Kwang-Seop
    • International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.36-45
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    • 2001
  • During the last decade, an increasing interest in Underfloor Air-Conditioning (UFAC) systems has emerged. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the indoor environmental performance of office buildings with UFAC system in order to develope the design prototype of this system. The physical measurements and the Interviewing survey of occupant's sensation responses to the environment were carried out. Measurements and survey were made of the thermal environmental factors such as air temperature, relative humidity, air velocity, globe temperature, and the other several environmental factors such as the sound level and the illuminance of working plane, etc. And, the air quality was evaluated by measuring the concentration of suspended particles, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide in the room. Furthermore, the paper appraises the various indoor environmental factors of the room by using post-occupancy evaluation (POE) method in office building with UFAC system, and thus, it suggests the basic data for assessing the indoor comfort based on field measurements and survey .

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Environmental Factors Influencing Tree Species Regeneration in Different Forest Stands Growing on a Limestone Hill in Phrae Province, Northern Thailand

  • Asanok, Lamthai;Marod, Dokrak
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.237-252
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    • 2016
  • Improved knowledge of the environmental factors affecting the natural regeneration of tree species in limestone forest is urgently required for species conservation. We examined the environmental factors and tree species characteristics that are important for colonization in diverse forest stands growing on a limestone hill in northern Thailand. Our analysis estimated the relative influence of forest structure and environmental factors on the regeneration traits of tree species. We established sixty-four $100-m^2$ plots in four forest stands on the limestone hill. We determined the species composition of canopy trees, regenerating seedlings, and saplings in relation to the physical environment. The relationships between environmental variables and tree species abundance were assessed by canonical correspondence analysis (CCA), and we used generalized linear mixed models to examine data on seedling/sapling abundances. The CCA ordination indicated that the abundance of tree species within the mixed deciduous forest was closely related to soil depth. The abundances of tree species growing within the sink-hole and hill-slope stands were positively related to the extent of rocky outcropping; light and soil moisture positively influenced the abundance of tree species in the hill-cliff stand. Physical factors had a greater effect on tree regeneration than did factors related to forest structure. Tree species, such as Ficus macleilandii, Dracaena cochinchinensis, and Phyllanthus mirabilis within the hill-cliff or sink-hole stand, colonized well on large rocky outcroppings that were well illuminated and had soft soils. These species regenerated well under conditions prevailing on the limestone hill. The colonization of several species in other stands was negatively influenced by environmental conditions at these sites. We found that natural regeneration of tree species on the limestone hill was difficult because of the prevailing combination of physical and biological factors. The influence of these factors was species dependent, and the magnitude of effects varied across forest stands.

Analysis of Individual, Social, and Environmental Factors influencing Korean Adolescents' Depression and Suicidal Ideation by Gender (성별에 따른 청소년의 우울증과 자살사고에 미치는 개인적, 사회적, 환경적 접근에 따른 영향요인 분석)

  • Yi, Yunjeong;Pyo, Eunyoung;Jeong, Jinok;An, Jiyeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.189-200
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: The purpose of the study is to examine the factors that influence Korean adolescents' depression and suicidal ideation from individual, social and environmental perspectives by gender. The study used the date of the 2015 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey and the subjects were 68,043 middle and high school students. The levels of depression and suicidal ideation were the dependent variables and the factors influencing the dependent variables included 11 individual factors, 3 social factors and 7 environmental factors. The data were analyzed using odds ratios (OR) from multi-variable logistic regression analysis. As a result, the most significant individual factors that influenced both depression and suicidal ideation were stress and subjective happiness both in boy and girls, the most significant social factor was participation in violence treatment programs, and the most significant environmental factors were economic status, father's educational level, and whether or not they lived with their family. Therefore, programs and policies to improve adolescents' mental health should be developed considering individual, social, and environmental factors.

Factors of the High School Students' Environmental Friendly Activities in Kwangyang and Suncheon (광양.순천 지역 고등학생들의 친환경적 행동 변인 연구)

  • Kim Dae-Hee;Park Eun-Joo
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.19 no.2 s.30
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    • pp.12-25
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    • 2006
  • This research is carried out to investigate what factors affect high school students' environmental friendly activities iii Kwangyang and Suncheon. Questionnaire Survey was conducted with second-year students each three high schools in Kwangyang and Suncheon areas. Major research results were as follows; 1. High school students' environmental friendly activities were strongly affected by those behaviors of their parents. 2. High school students' environmental friendly activities were strongly affected by school environmental educations. 3. High school students' environmental friendly activities were affected by environmental factors of home, society and school. According to the above result I'd like to suggest inter-related environmental education between home and school and society, some devices which could strengthen the parents' environmental friendly activities, and systematic school environmental education should be conducted.

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