• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.107-116
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• 2023

This article reviews the experience of applying the Identification, Diagnosis, Prospective, and Action (IDPA) facilitating method as a means of promoting practices of dialogue between stakeholders in the radiological protection field. After presenting the characteristics of the IDPA method and its ability to promote active listening, participation, and dialogue among stakeholders facing complex situations, as well as the procedural aspects associated with its practical implementation, the article describes three examples of the application of the method in the field of radiological protection. The first one presents how the IDPA method supported a debate among decision-makers, authorities, experts, professionals, and representatives of non-governmental organizations about how to engage stakeholders in radiological protection. The second example presents how the IDPA method was used in a series of dialogue meetings to explore the challenges of the post-nuclear accident situation resulting from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. The third one presents the application of the method in the context of a training course organized by Nagasaki University in the affected area close to the damaged plant. Experience has shown that the IDPA method makes it possible to develop responses to problems posed in very different contexts and, in many cases, to find compromises regarding their solutions. The IDPA method has the merit of allowing each of the participants to better understand the situation they are faced with, even if such a positive result is not always achieved.

• 대순사상논총
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• 제45집
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• pp.103-151
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• 2023

본 연구는 대순진리회의 국제개발협력 활동을 살펴보고 향후 방향을 논의하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 또한, 대순사상적 관점에서 국제개발협력과 관련한 활동을 어떻게 이해할 수 있는지를 논의한다. 국제사회에서는 정부와 공공기관, 그리고 다자기구 등 전통적인 공여자뿐만 아니라 다양한 공여자의 적극적인 참여가 촉구되고 있다. 이에, 시민사회의 NGO 뿐만 아니라, 종교계의 FBO의 역할이 중요하게 인식되고 있다. 대순진리회는 2013년 대진국제자원봉사단이 공식적으로 발족함으로써, 종단의 3대 중요사업의 수행을 위한 해외 봉사 등을 더 확대하여, 국제개발협력 활동을 체계화해왔다. 이러한 활동과 더불어 2022년에는 한국국제협력단의 시민사회협력 프로그램에도 선정됨으로써 종단의 활동을 더욱 확대해 나가고 있다. 대순진리회는 신종교로써 여타 전통종교의 FBO에 비해 그 지원 규모와 범위가 넓지 않지만, 종단의 전문성과 역량(교육, 의료 등)을 활용해 전략적인 국제개발협력의 수행이 가능하다. 실제로, 이들 FBO와 대순진리회가 수행하는 사업의 본질과 내용에서는 유사했으며, 아직 지원 활동이 초기임을 감안할 때 괄목할만한 성과를 보였다. 무엇보다 대순진리회는 선교와 같은 종교적 목표 또는 수단을 배제하고, 그 재원이 도인들의 후원과 성금으로 이루어지기 때문에 더 의미 있다고 볼 수 있다. 향후 국제개발협력의 수행에 있어, 종단의 3대 중요사업(구호자선사업·사회복지사업·교육사업)의 전략적 연계를 기반으로 국제개발협력 활동의 전문성을 도모할 필요가 있을 것이다. 또한, 상생에 기반한 평화와 공존의 국제개발협력이 될 수 있도록 그 가치와 정신을 중요하게 인식할 필요가 있을 것이다.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제99권5호
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• pp.655-662
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• 2010

Desertification has been expanding with a remarkable speed across the Northeast Asia. Desertification in Northeast Asia significantly influences Korea's economy and environmental health conditions in recent years. For these reasons, a number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Korea have carried out the reforestation projects to combat desertification in China and Mongolia. Several tree plantation projects were implemented in Mongolia and China. The objective of this study was to analyze and evaluate the performance of tree plantation aid projects carried out by Korean NGOs in Mongolia. The performance of tree plantation projects was examined through effectiveness, efficiency, equity and responsiveness of those projects. The performance was analyzed with the survival rate of planted trees and planting cost, the recognitions of Mongolian people. The analysis of the performance showed that the tree plantation cooperation projects carried out by Korean NGOs in Mongolia had comparatively high performance from a larger point of view. Especially, effectiveness and responsiveness of their projects were highly marked in spite of all the difficulties of carrying out the tree plantation. Such a high effectiveness represented the relatively higher survival rates of trees and Mongolian's positive recognition of plantation projects. Furthermore, the responsiveness also turned out to be high with a great satisfaction of the Mongolian people for plantation projects conducted by the Korean NGOs. Survey results indicated that the efficiency and equity of the projects would be increased by promoting the cooperation projects for tree planting throughout Mongolia with reinforcing infrastructures. By comparison between Korean NGOs and Mongolian Government plantation projects, confirmed the importance of sustained financial support and maintenance activities in the plantation sites.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.325-353
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• 2018

Agricultural systems in South Asian countries are dominated by smallholder farmers. Additionally, these farmers have limited access to pre- and post-harvest technologies due to their high initial cost. The lack of these technologies in postharvest handling is responsible for 20% to 44% of fruit and vegetable losses. These high losses are largely the result of a generally weak basic postharvest infrastructure for the preservation of products, which avoids damage from improper handling, transportation, packaging, and storage. High postharvest losses of products negatively affect food availability, food security, and nutrition, as the producer is able to sell less of the farm yield and the net availability of these food commodities for consumption is reduced. An underlying cause of these postharvest losses is the limited awareness and knowledge bases of stakeholders (researchers, farmers, governments, non-governmental organizations, and merchants) in the traditional supply chains in which these losses occur. The analysis presented in this paper explores the state of postharvest practice in South Asian countries and discusses options for low-cost postharvest technologies in the region that can support small-scale farmers and provide a viable pathway for supply to the market, joining with modern value chains and bringing about individual and regional reduction in postharvest losses of fruits and vegetables. The improvement of basic and simple low-cost technologies through precise research efforts has the potential to prevent such huge losses of products, and help meet the ever-increasing demand for food in South Asian countries.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.415-426
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• 1997

Some arguments have been about over the representativeness of government-run air quality monitoring stations among scholars and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). However, it is not a simple problem to move monitoring stations because of continuity of data and high cost. So it is necessary to complement the monitoring data if it do not represent the ambient air quality properly. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the representativeness of some monitoring stations using passive $NO_2$ samplers and to find a complementary method from linear regression. Two stations were chosen for the evaluation: Shinlim Station was one of the most controversial stations in Seoul and Banpo Station had the best reputation. Air qualities were surveyed at seven points around each monitoring station with consideration of land use and distance. The ratios of the average $NO_2$ levels of the areas to these at the monitoring stations were 1.59 for Shinlim Station and 1.03 for Banpo Station. The differences between the average $NO_2$ levels and those at the monitoring stations were 10.75 ppb for Shilim Station and 0.34 ppb for Banpo Station. The correlation coefficients between the two levels were 0.7668 for Shinlim and 0.7662 for Banpo. The average coefficients of determination $(R^2)$ were 0.61 for Shinlim and 0.61 for Banpo. The Shinlim Station could not represent the air quality of Shinlim-Dong good because it is located in a green area at an outskirt of Shinlim-Dong. But the Banpo Station located in a central residential area of Banpo-Dong showed a fair representativeness. However, air quality turned out to be different with land use such as residential area, green area or road: the air quality data from a monitoring station located at a certain land use should not be interpreted as representing the air quality at any sites around the station. Equations to predict the average $NO_2$ levels of each area from the data from the monitoring stations were presented based on linear regression.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.163-173
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• 2006

The so called Antarctic Treaty System, started from the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, has gradually been enlarged into the concept of an international environmental regime, which has been included in not a few international institutions, treaties, conventions, and international non-governmental organizations (INGO). This kind of movement, as in the role of an international environmental regime, has recently been highlighted in the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty. This Protocol is taking appropriate measures as an international environmental regime in regulating its member nations by enforcing principles in protecting Antarctic resources and environment, regulating member nations' Antarctic activities, establishing norms in the adoption of international and domestic laws, and devising regulations for deciding administrative actions through the member nations' collective decision-making procedures. h this context, this paper is to test a few questions; firstly, how the Antarctic Treaty System can be related with the role of international environmental regime; secondly, how the theories of international environmental regime, such as the hegemony theory, rational choice theory, and international morality theory, can be tested in the role of Antarctic Treaty System as an international environmental regime. Finally, this paper provides a solution for the future problems of the Antarctic Treaty System as an international environmental regime regarding the regime's principle (conflict between the environmental principle and the right of nation-state), norms and regulations (the conflict between the developed and underdeveloped nations in terms of the concept of 'common but differentiated environmental responsibility'), cooperation directions (the leadership problems between hegemonic nation and multilateral leading groups), and management methods (cooperation and arrangement problems among expert institutions, observer groups, and INGO).

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.170-179
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• 2007

본 연구는 효율적 재난대응체계 구축을 위한 네트워크체계를 구축하고자 일본과 한국의 재난 대응 사례를 비교 분석하였다. 일본의 경우 중앙정부와 지방정부 등의 공공부문과 민간부문 및 NGO간 상호 네트워크에 의해서 협력적으로 재난에 대응하고 있으나, 한국의 경우 각 부문간 네트워크 협력체계 구축이 미약하여 더 많은 재난피해를 불러일으키고 있었다. 즉 우리나라 재난대응 서비스는 그동안 공공부문에서만 담당해 왔던 것이다. 공공부문은 관리에 필요한 자원을 광범위하게 가지고 물리적 강제력과 법적 권한의 보유로 재난관리에 강력하게 대응할 수 있는 조직이다. 그러나 현대사회의 특성상 중앙정부와 지방정부 등의 공공부문의 노력만으로는 재난관리를 효과적으로 수행하기에 한계가 있음이 밝혀졌다. 따라서 향후 한국이 재난대응을 효율적으로 수행하기 위해서는 국가재난대응 통합 네트워크 체계를 마련하고, 각 주체들을 연결할 수 있는 매개조직이 필요하며, 재난대응 네트워크에 참여하는데 있어 각 기관들의 역할과 기능 분담을 위한 재난대응 교육 훈련 프로그램이 요구된다.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.769-787
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• 2007

본 연구의 목적은 한국을 사례로 학생관점 접근을 통해 환경학습의 원천을 밝히는데 있다. 다른 나라에서 이루어진 연구에 의하면, 환경학습의 원천에는 미디어, 학교, 개인적 기회, 그리고 비정부기구 등이 있다. 본 연구는 한국을 사례로 하여 토의집단과의 면접과 설문조사에 기초하여 이루어줬으며, 그 결과는 다른 나라의 것과 비교하였다. 한국 학생들의 경우 환경에 대한 정보를 호주, 중국, 인도를 포함한 다른 나라와 유사하게 미디어와 학교에서 얻는 것으로 나타났다. 환경정보 습득의 원천으로 가장 중요한 것은 텔레비전과 학교 그리고 인터넷이었으며, 지역사회, 가족 그리고 친구와 같은 개인적 기회는 그다지 중요하지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 외국과 비교해 보면, 한국 학생들은 다양한 출처, 특히 기업, 지역사회, 그리고 외국으로부터의 정보에 대해 비교적 덜 신뢰하는 것으로 드러났다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권15호
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• pp.6669-6672
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• 2015

Background: Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among females worldwide. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and practice about breast cancer and its related factors among women in Baghdad city, Iraq. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 508 women aged 18 to 55 years from four non-governmental organizations (NGO) in Baghdad city, Iraq. A self-administered questionnaire on breast cancer knowledge and practice was distributed to participants during weekly activity of the NGO. Results: A total of 61.2% of the respondents had poor knowledge, only 30.3% performed breast self-examination (BSE) and 41.8% said that they did not know the technique to perform BSE. Associations between knowledge and marital status and age were significant. For practice, working status, education, age and family income were significant. After controlling for cofounders, the most important contributing factors for poor knowledge among respondents were marital status and not performing BSE, with adjusted odds ratio of 1.6 and 1.8 respectively. Conclusions: Breast cancer knowledge and practice of BSE are poor among women in Baghdad city, Iraq. More promotion regarding breast cancer signs and symptoms and also how to perform BSE should be conducted using media such as television and internet as these constituted the main sources of information for most women in our study.

• 한국임상약학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.9-13
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• 2006

Patient counseling is emerging as one of the most important roles of community pharmacists because the information on the standard labeling for the prescription drug is not sufficient to ensure the correct use of the drug. However, excessive workload of the community pharmacists in Korea discourages the provision of the effective patient counseling. The use of auxiliary label may be an efficient tool to help patients correctly use the prescription drug in this situation. As a preliminary study to encourage the use of auxiliary label, we have performed a survey analysis of familiarity and willingness of community pharmacists to use the auxiliary label. About three quarters of the participating community pharmacists have heard of the auxiliary label, however, there was not a single pharmacist who uses the label. Furthermore, only one fifth of the participating pharmacists were willing to use the label if they have to purchase. Therefore, it is recommended that governmental and non-profit organizations such as Korean Pharmaceutical Association educate community pharmacists regarding usefulness of the auxiliary label with focus on enhancing patient compliance and constrainment of healthcare expense.