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The Development of the Sustainability Appraisal Indicators for Clean Development Mechanism(CDM) Projects by Multi-Criteria Analysis(MCA) (청정개발체제(CDM)사업의 지속가능성평가 지표 개발 -다 기준분석법(MCA)을 활용하여-)

  • Yang, Chun-Seung;Park, Sung-Hwan;Park, Jung-Gu
    • Journal of Environmental Policy
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.83-118
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    • 2009
  • Clean Development Mechanism(CDM) projects under the Kyoto Protocol have two objectives. One is to assist the Parties included in Annex I in achieving compliance with their quantified emission limitation and reduction commitments in cost-effective ways by allowing them to implement emission reduction projects in Non-Annex I countries and receive CERs, which will offset their reduction commitments. The other is to assist Parties not included in Annex I in achieving sustainable development and technology transfers through investments by Annex I countries. However, in reality, it is said that the former objective is achievable but the latter is not. In this light, this article suggests sustainability appraisal criteria applicable for Korea. Among various methodologies, we used the 'multi-attributes utility theory(MAUT)'; one of the 'multi-criteria analysis (MCA)' methodologies judged to be the most practical and relevant. Based on the guidelines of the MAUT methodology, we identified sustainability criteria that meet the guidelines. We took two tracks, the first to find the preferences of Korean experts, and the other to check foreign cases. In all, 37 preliminary criteria were suggested to Korean experts and each criterion was scored, from between 1 and 3, in terms of relevance, possibility of real improvement, easiness of data collection, and preferences. We combined foreign cases and the results of a survey conducted in Korea and selected 12 core criteria and 10 additional criteria. After that, all the criteria were converted into indicators. The indicators were applied to a CDM project for case study. We chose the "Sihwa Tidal Power Project", which is currently the biggest tidal power plant in the world. Twelve core indicators and 3 additional indicators were applied. In order to weight each indicator, the 'analytical hierarchy process (AHP)' was used. A total of 30 experts were asked to suggest weights and 21 answered. Among them, only 14 respondents were proven to meet the consistency ratio. We analyzed the 14 responses through Expert Choice and the CDM project was scored (+)53.082. In addition, sensitivity analysis was undertaken with the result of (+)44.667 to (+)65.522. As a result of this study, it was proven that this project would contribute to the sustainable development of Korea.

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A Study on the Problems and Solutions of Environmental Impact Assessment System for Environmentally Sound and Sustainable Development (ESSD를 위한 지역 환경영향평가제도의 문제점 및 개선방안 연구)

  • Oh, Hae-Sub;Lim, Hyung-Baek
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.15-24
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    • 1999
  • There have always been dilemmas between development and environmental conservation throughout the world. Gradually environmental contamination threatens sustainable development and conservation. we try to study on the sustainable development with environmental conservation. One of the instruments to get this goal is Environmental Impact Statement. Environmental Impact Statement has now become a standard tool of decision making in Environmentally Sound and Sustainable Development. The objectives of this study is to explore and suggest some suggestions for improvements of EIA. 1. Identify all criteria and standards that apply to physical and social environmental components and dynamics. 2. Giving attention to the purpose of the criterion and standard, with respect to resource use and quality. 3. Demonstrate the relevance legal, technical, and scientific authority by early planning through construction, operation and maintenance phases. 4. Implement rationales and protocols for the documentation of standard analytical methods, location of sampling points and statistical analysis of data. 5. Establish precise protocols by predictions of environmental impact relevant for established criteria and standards. Reviewing these protocols with relevant legal authorities prior to their implementation is important.

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A survey on the perception of China private antidesertification afforestation support project and evaluation

  • Ji, Seung-Yong;Lee, Sang-Hyuk;Lee, Oh-Kyu;Choi, Jaeyong
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.43 no.2
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    • pp.288-297
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    • 2016
  • This study is to evaluate the 'Private antidesertification afforestation support project' in the Kubuqi Desert through a survey of local residents and interviews with relevant personnel. Based on this survey, gender, age, and occupational differences in perception of the project were analyzed. In addition, the project was evaluated based on the OECD/DAC criteria using survey results and in-depth interviews with the relevant personnel. The survey analysis results show that the participants answered most of the questions positively, claiming that they were receiving social, economic, and environmental benefits through the project. However, most of the participants answered negatively to questions regarding the understanding of the project and relevant information. Gender differences in perception of the project were not found, whereas, age and occupational differences in perception were found. Older age groups showed higher levels of perception. Participants in the agro-livestock industry and office workers showed higher levels of perception compared to middle/high school students, the unemployed and college students. Teenagers, in particular, showed the lowest level of perception of the project, and thus, promotional activities targeting teenagers should be conducted in the future. Results of this evaluation of the project based on the OECD/DAC's five criteria (relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability) showed that the project operated effectively for the most part.

An International Comparative Study on the Elementary Social Studies Curriculum and Textbooks (초등학교 사회과 교육과정과 교과서의 통합 편성에 관한 국제 비교 연구: 한국, 미국, 영국을 중심으로)

  • Park, So-Young;Kim, Dae-Hyun
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.168-183
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this paper was to compare and analyze the elementary curriculum and textbook integration of social studies in Korea, USA, and England in terms of content integration and to make suggestions for the improvement of Korean social studies curriculum and textbooks. For this study, social studies curriculum and textbooks of three different countries were analyzed according to the three criteria: sequence, types and focus of integration. In this comparative study, five suggestions were made for the improvement of the Korean elementary social studies curriculum and textbooks. First, Korean social studies curriculum should have a subject focus at each grade level. Second, it is recommended that Korean social studies curriculum should present clear interrelations among geography, history, and civics at each grade level. Third, Korean social studies curriculum needs to have diverse criteria on which to select and organize themes. Fourth, Korean social studies textbooks need to have increased number of interdisciplinary large units. Fifth, it is necessary that the authors of Korean social studies textbooks integrate contents in consideration of students' life context in order to raise the relevance of the contents of history and geography.

Fashion Attitude and Bag Purchase Behaviors of Males in their 20s-30s (20~30대 남성의 의복태도와 가방구매에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jung-Woo;Jin, Sun-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.267-280
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    • 2011
  • This study examined bag purchase behaviors for male consumers based on fashion attitudes. Data research were conducted on 304 males in their 20s and 30s located in Seoul & Gyeonggi province. The SPSS 17.0 software program was used to conduct data analyses such descriptive statistics, frequency analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, $X^2$-test, t-test, ANOVA, and Scheffe's test as a post-hoc analysis. The results of this study were as follows: Fashion attitude was identified with four factors personality, social recognition, practicality, and dignity. Customers were segmented into three subdivisions: conspicuous, recognition of individual style, and practicality of clothing. The factors derived from the factor analysis of selection criteria included intrinsic attributes and extrinsic attributes. Males in their 30s valued the intrinsic attributes and males in their 20s valued extrinsic attributes. The group of conspicuous of clothing, valued both intrinsic and extrinsic attributes as important. The factors derived from the factor analysis of bag pursuit benefit included pursuit of fashion/economic, famous brand, quality/convenience. Males in their 20s and 30s pursued famous luxury brands and fashion attitudes had a positive relevance to the bag pursuit benefit.

Secure and Robust Clustering for Quantized Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Mansouri, Majdi;Khoukhi, Lyes;Nounou, Hazem;Nounou, Mohamed
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.164-172
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    • 2013
  • We consider the problem of secure and robust clustering for quantized target tracking in wireless sensor networks (WSN) where the observed system is assumed to evolve according to a probabilistic state space model. We propose a new method for jointly activating the best group of candidate sensors that participate in data aggregation, detecting the malicious sensors and estimating the target position. Firstly, we select the appropriate group in order to balance the energy dissipation and to provide the required data of the target in the WSN. This selection is also based on the transmission power between a sensor node and a cluster head. Secondly, we detect the malicious sensor nodes based on the information relevance of their measurements. Then, we estimate the target position using quantized variational filtering (QVF) algorithm. The selection of the candidate sensors group is based on multi-criteria function, which is computed by using the predicted target position provided by the QVF algorithm, while the malicious sensor nodes detection is based on Kullback-Leibler distance between the current target position distribution and the predicted sensor observation. The performance of the proposed method is validated by simulation results in target tracking for WSN.

A Study on relevance criteria of retrieved documents according to the research stage (연구진행정도에 따른 검색문헌의 적합평가기준 연구)

  • 김홍렬;이두영
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Information Management Conference
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    • 1999.08a
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    • pp.5-8
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    • 1999
  • 본 연구는 이용자 지향적인 측면에서 적합문헌평가에 대한 다양한 기준들을 확인하고, 실제 연구자들이 그들의 연구 진행정도에 따라서 적합문헌을 평가하는 기준과 문헌의 적합여부평가에 인식적인 차이를 나타내는지를 밝히는데 그 목적이 있다. 이를 위하여 본 연구에서는 문헌조사연구 방법과 실험연구방법을 병행하여 사용하였다. 먼저 문헌조사 연구를 통하여 본 연구문제의 이론적 배경과 이용자 지향적 적합문헌 평가기준들을 종합적으로 분석하고, 실험에 사용할 평가기준들을 도출하였으며, 실험연구에서는 실제 연구문제를 가지고 있는 5명의 이용자를 무작위로 선정하여 그들의 연구진행 정도에 따른 적합평가기준을 시작(정보입수자각, 관련정보를 수집하는 최초의 단계), 진행(수집정보를 정리하고 초점을 형성, 집필의 시작단계), 완성단계(본격적인 집필과정으로 인용문헌들 결정하는 단계)로 나누어 조사하였다.

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APPAREL PRODUCTS RETRIEVAL SYSTEM BASED ON PSYCOLOGICAL FEATURE SPACE

  • Ohtake, Atsushi;Takatera, Masayuki;Furukawa, Takao;Shimizu, Yoshio
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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    • 2000.04a
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    • pp.240-243
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    • 2000
  • An apparel products retrieval system was proposed in which users can refer to products using Kansei evaluation values. The system adopts relevance feedback using history of the retrieval to learn the tendency of user evaluation. The system is based on a vector space retrieval model using products images expression as semantic scales. The system makes a query from user inputting information and retrieves closest products from the database. Revising algorithms of the difference method. linear multiple regression performed to investigate the effectiveness and criteria of the search. As a result of evaluation of the accuracy, it was found that the linear multiple regression and the neural network models are effective for the retrieval considering the individual Kansei.

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ASSESSMENT OF THERMAL FATIGUE IN MIXING TEE BY FSI ANALYSIS

  • Jhung, Myung Jo
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.99-106
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    • 2013
  • Thermal fatigue is a significant long-term degradation mechanism in nuclear power plants. In particular, as operating plants become older and life time extension activities are initiated, operators and regulators need screening criteria to exclude risks of thermal fatigue and methods to determine significant fatigue relevance. In general, the common thermal fatigue issues are well understood and controlled by plant instrumentation at fatigue susceptible locations. However, incidents indicate that certain piping system Tee connections are susceptible to turbulent temperature mixing effects that cannot be adequately monitored by common thermocouple instrumentations. Therefore, in this study thermal fatigue evaluation of piping system Tee-connections is performed using the fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis. From the thermal hydraulic analysis, the temperature distributions are determined and their results are applied to the structural model of the piping system to determine the thermal stress. Using the rain-flow method the fatigue analysis is performed to generate fatigue usage factors. The procedure for improved load thermal fatigue assessment using FSI analysis shown in this study will supply valuable information for establishing a methodology on thermal fatigue.

Investment Direction of Disaster Safety Projects Considering Characteristics of Disaster Safety (재난안전사고 피해특징을 고려한 재난안전사업 투자방향 제시)

  • Heo, Bo-Young;Cho, Sung-Eun
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.41-50
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    • 2017
  • Disaster and safety budget can be characterized as a large-scale public asset on which the government has a significant role. It is of a crucial importance to properly allocate the limited national budget to various areas as necessary. Higher investment efficiency of the budget related to disaster and safety management requires distribution criteria based on relevance and efficiency. Currently, the budget related to disaster and safety management is orchestrated through the prior consultation system. However, there is still no clear framework for reviewing the investment direction and setting the priority investment areas by prior consultation. This study analyzes the status and characteristics of disaster and safety management projects by damage type and proposes a structured system for prioritization. This framework can be useful in selecting the areas that need priority investments by damage type of disaster and safety management projects, thereby contributing to improving investment efficiency.