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A Study on Comprehensive Environmental Information System for Livestock Manure Management in Korea (가축분뇨 관리를 위한 통합환경정보시스템 발전방안)

  • Jeong, Dong-Hwan;Kim, Yongseok;Shin, Jinsoo;Rhew, Doughee;Cho, Hong-Lae;Lee, Taehwan
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.183-194
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    • 2013
  • The Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry, and Ministry of Construction, Transportation and Maritime Affairs are in charge of livestock manure management. There are national statistics regarding the livestock industry such as the National Pollution Source Survey, Livestock Statistic Survey, and Livestock-breeding Trend Survey. The current statistical data are focused on the scale of livestock breeding and the production of livestock manure using these data, but it is difficult to establish database due to lack of information. In order to plan relevant policies including management of livestock manure, the government established database systems such as the integrated information system of livestock manure, the integrated system of national infectious animal-disease prevention, and the Sae-ol public administrative system. We have tried to suggest improvements for the comprehensive environmental information system of livestock manure management by detecting problems in each level of the livestock manure life-cycle, making use of the existing systems, and considering the electronic transfer system of livestock manure. The services and functions of this comprehensive system include information of livestock farmers, the production, collection, transportation, and treatment of livestock manure, the area of agricultural land used for livestock manure, the report of approval and results on livestock manure products, management of statistical information, management of civil affairs, and relevant mobile application services. The system is made up of three processes: first, establishment of GIS-based management database of livestock manure; second, establishment of a history management system for livestock manure transactions; and third, development of a water quality assessment system.

Integrated Safety, Quality, and Environment Information System Based on Web Environment (웹 기반 하에서의 안전, 품질, 환경 통합 정보 시스템)

  • 박재현;김형준;나승훈;서지한;김귀남
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2000.05a
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 2000
  • This study presents the design of integrated safety, quality, and environmental information system based on the internet environment. Quality management system, environmental management system, and safety management system are adapted in many manufacturing and service organization respectively but those system does not work effectively. Especially safety management system and environmental management system are very similar with format and contents. Therefore, Those system must be integrated to increase effiency.

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Studies on Systematic Analysis and Management of Environmental Information (환경정보의 체계적 분석 및 관리방안 연구)

  • Kim, Myung-Jin;Chang, Chun-Ki;Lee, Jae-Woon;Kwon, Myeong-Hee;Kang, In-Goo;Seo, Chang-Wan
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 1994
  • For managing and analyzing effectively diverse and complicated environmental informations, informations should be built systematically, and techniques should be developed. Environmental Information System(EIS) is composed of environmental informations, GIS, and manpower. Recently it is applied to Environmental Impact Assessment and environmental management, etc.. For effective application, EIS techniques will be improved. This article has four components. First, it describes building of environmental information comprising geographic and attribute data using GIS in Chuncheon district. Second, it explains programming for effective information analysis and management using AML(Are Macro Language in ARC INFO). Third, it provides specific functional capabilities including suitability analysis. Based on these analysis, this study makes some examples for systematic analysis and management of environmental information using interactive system.

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Environmental Management by Using Weedy Plants

  • Oki, Yoko
    • Korean Journal of Weed Science
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.95-105
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    • 1998
  • The positive functions of aquatic and terrestrial weedy plants were reviewed in terms of water purification, soil erosion prevention, salt-affected soil utilization, etc.. Introduced were several examples to utilize weedy plants for environment management by exploiting their positive functions.

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An Empirical Study on the Influencing Factors, Practice Level, and Performanc of Green Supply Chain Management From the Innovation Diffusion Theory Perspective (혁신확산이론 관점에서의 Green SCM 도입 및 영향요인과 성과에 관한 실증연구)

  • Lee, Young-Chan;Oh, Hyung-Jin
    • Knowledge Management Research
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.59-78
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, we arrange the concept of 'Green' in SCM after literature study of Green SCM and investigate causal relationships between influencing factors, practice level and environmental performance focused on Korean firms empirically and conduct path analysis for hypothesis test using partial least squares regression with bootstrap. Firstly, we divide influencing factors of Green SCM into environmental and organizational factors through the previous studies of innovation diffusion theory and environmental management theory, and then we selected 'uncertainty', 'competitiveness' as the environmental factors and 'top management support', 'perceived benefit', 'training' as the organizational factors. Secondly, we classify practice level of Green SCM into 'internal environmental management', 'green purchasing', 'eco-design'. Finally, we selected 'financial performance', 'environmental performance' as the organizational performance. We conducted a survey on the middle manager of manufacturing companies implementing SCM and an empirical analysis. The results of analysis show that there exist causal relationships between influencing factors, practice level, and environmental performance of Green SCM. We expect that the result of this study will suggest useful information to managers who are responsible for SCM to design and execute Green SCM in strategic perspectives.

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A Review of Solid Waste Management using System Dynamics Modeling

  • Popli, Kanchan;Sudibya, Gamal Luckman;Kim, Seungdo
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.26 no.10
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    • pp.1185-1200
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    • 2017
  • Solid waste management is currently a topic of concern, particularly in the protection of humans and the environment from toxic pollutants and hazardous materials. The importance of solid waste management is recognized at international, national, and community levels. Different agendas have been prioritized and assigned to improve quality of life, productivity, and health, and reduce the burden of pollution. Suitable management of solid waste requires appropriate technology that is affordable, socially accepted, and environmentally friendly. The use of a smart management system involving system dynamics can save energy, money, and labor. System dynamics is a computer-based approach that aids in predicting the behavioral patterns of variables, and correlating dependent and independent variables. The inclusion of system dynamics-based models in solid waste management has recently become more common. In this review, we used system dynamics to determine methods to disentangle solid waste management systems and analyzed different studies on solid waste management using system dynamics in different countries in detail. We also discussed the various software packages that are available for system dynamics and their usefulness for waste management. This review may help in understanding current solid waste management practices using system dynamics.

A study on the establishment of isolation distances for environmental release of biotech crops

  • Lee, Bumkyu
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.188-195
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    • 2017
  • Biotech crops can only be commercialized after they receive safety approvals, which require thorough risk assessments of their release to the environment. Environmental release experiments are indispensable for environmental risk assessments, and each country has been preparing its own regulations for the safety management of experiments on the environmental release of biotech crops in confined fields. In this study, we compared and analyzed the safety management regulations of the environmental release of biotech crops in Korea, USA, Japan, European Union, and China. Each country had safety management regulations for the environmental release of biotech crops, and these regulations were generally not much different from the Korean regulations. However, there was a difference amongst the USA, Japan, and China in regulations for isolation distances to prevent gene diffusion through pollen-flow during environmental release experiments of biotech crops. In order to establish the isolation distance regulation suitable for the Korean environment, relevant data were collected and presented. For setting the isolation distance for environment release of biotech crops, it is suggested to refer to the isolation distance information provided in the Guidance of Seed Management in Korea. The results of this study are expected to help establish the safety management of biotech crops in Korea.

A Study on Reduction of Business Logistics Cost through Environmentally-Conscious Logistics Activity (친환경적인 물류 활동을 통한 기업 물류비 절감에 관한 탐색적 연구)

  • Choi, Jun-Ho;Oh, Sun-Il;Lee, Eun-Sook;Kang, Kyung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.145-152
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    • 2009
  • As the industry develops, the amount of wastes is increasing in the economic system with various needs. As a result, the environmental problems are emerging as serious social issues and all the parties are required to make their best efforts. Among the issues proposed as the environmental issues, the logistics-related issues are exhaustion of the resources, global warming, environmental pollution, and acidification and so on. In order to respond to the environmental issues of the earth, the advanced countries are setting retrenched goals, reduction of the new greenhouse gases and accomplishment of retrenched goals by cooperation between the nations. Economic activities inevitably bring environmental problems and logistics is implementing those activities. The companies should perform the roles to resolve the environmental problems as the main cause of environmental pollution. Therefore, along with spreading recognition of social demand, the companies are required to establish policies regarding the environment and they should approach the issues from the perspective of resource circulation. These environment-friendly activities are emerging as the new source of competitiveness in the logistics field. Therefore, this study analyzes the effects of environment-friendly logistics activities on the reduction of logistics cost to reduce and resolve the environmental issues such as environment preservation, recycling and so on.

An Empirical Study on Influencing Factors, Practice Level, and Performance of Green Supply Chain Management (친환경 공급사슬관리의 영향요인, 실행수준, 그리고 기업성과간의 구조적 인과관계)

  • Lee, Young-Chan;Oh, Hyung-Jin
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.173-203
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we arrange the concept of 'Green' in SCM after literature study of Green SCM and investigate causal relationships between influencing factors, practice level and environmental performance focused on Korean firms empirically and conduct path analysis for hypothesis test using partial least squares regression with bootstrap. Firstly, we divide influencing factors of Green SCM into environmental and organizational factors through the previous studies of innovation diffusion theory and environmental management theory, and then we selected 'uncertainty', 'competitiveness' as the environmental factors and 'top management support', 'perceived benefit', 'training' as the organizational factors. Secondly, we classify practice level of Green SCM into 'internal environmental management', 'green purchasing', 'eco-design'. Finally, we selected 'financial performance', 'environmental performance' as the organizational performance. We conducted a survey on the middle manager of manufacturing companies implementing SCM and an empirical analysis. The results of analysis show that there exist causal relationships between influencing factors, practice level, and environmental performance of Green SCM. We expect that the result of this study will suggest useful information to managers who are responsible for SCM to design and execute Green SCM in strategic perspectives.

A study on corporate social responsibility activities of fashion companies (패션기업의 사회적 책임 활동에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, So-Jeong;Rhee, YoungJu
    • Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.17-28
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    • 2018
  • This study reviewed corporate social responsibility activities of fashion companies and discussed strategies of social enterprises. The research was conducted on 6 Korean fashion companies with sales over KRW 1 trillion as of the end of the term in 2015. Corporate social responsibility activities of each company were investigated from economic, social and environmental viewpoints. The results of this study were as follows: First, each company promoted win-win growth, co-existence management, transparent management and ethics management through economic activities. They pursued win-win growth and co-existence management, which aimed to respect and grow with their partners. Also, they ensured transparent management and ethics management to show their moral management. Second, each company conducted various social contribution programs as part of their social activities. Through the programs, they made donations, supported welfare and culture, and practiced voluntary work, local activities, training and equal opportunities. Third, as for environmental activities, each company tried to protect nature through various activities such as donation to environmental organizations, environmental cleanup activities, environmental management from production to disposal, reuse, eco-friendly system, environmental volunteering, etc. Articles on fashion companies' social responsibility activities have an influence on boosting their attitude and image towards businesses.