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PACRIM SCIENCE APPLICATIONS: A DECADE WITH AIRSAR

  • Milne, A.K.;Tapley, I.J.
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.428-428
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    • 2002
  • The scientific objectives of PACRIM (Pacific Rim) are to advance the understanding of polarimetric and interferometric radar and to promote its application in environmental research designed to detect and quantify changes found in both the physical and humanly dominated ecosystems on the earth's surface. The information derived is used to more readily identify environments at risk; improve environmental decision making and the management of resources and thereby lead to the implementation of more effective and sustainable land use practices. PACRIM is a collaborative research project was organized by NASA's Mission to Planet Earth, Airborne Sciences Program; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; CSIRO-COSSA and the Centre for Remote Sensing and GIS at the University of New South Wales. A decade of working with AIRSAR data (1993-2003) in the Australia-Asian-Pacific region has provided the opportunity for more than 400 investigators from 20 countries to collect, analyse, interpret and apply state-of-the-art radar data to earth-science studies. This has been achieved by scientists working within seven broad research themes; o Forestry and vegetation o Geology and tectonic processes o Interferometry o Disaster management o Coastal analysis o Agriculture o Urban and regional development. This paper presents an overview of the three data acquisition missions (1993,1996 and 2000) and the science research outcomes achieved from analyzing high quality radar data.

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Assessment of Ecosystem services under changing climate in the Bagmati Basin of Nepal

  • Bastola, Shiksha;Seong, Yeon-Jeong;Lee, Sanghyup;Jung, Younghun
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2019.05a
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    • pp.148-148
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    • 2019
  • The 2006 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) defines ecosystem services (ES) as "the benefits people obtain from ecosystems". Identifying where ES originates, whom it benefits and how it is changing over a period of time is critical in rapidly developing country like Nepal, where the risk of ES loss is high. In the context of various ecosystem services provided by watershed, this study, particularly deals with water yield, Soil loss and Carbon sequestration computation and evaluation in Bagmati Basin of Nepal. As Bagmati Basin incorporates capital city Kathmandu of nepal, land use change is significant over decades and mapping of ES is crucial for sustainable development of Basin in future. In this regard, the objectives of this study are 1) To compute the total and sub-watershed scale water yield of the basin, 2) Computation of soil loss and sediment retention in the basin, and 3) Computation of carbon sequestration in the basin. Integrated Valuation of Environmental Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST), a popular model for ecosystem service assessment based on Budyko hydrological method is used to compute Ecosystem services. The scenario of ES in two periods of time can be referenced for various approaches of prioritization and incorporation of their value into local and regional decision making for management of basin.

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Does Local Government Affect Community Satisfaction of the Younger Generation in Rural Areas? The Case of Jeonbuk, South Korea

  • Cho, Younghyun;Lee, Kyung-Young
    • Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.214-239
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    • 2021
  • This study examines the relationship between public service satisfaction, trust in local government, and community satisfaction. Previous studies on community satisfaction have insufficiently dealt with public services or trust in local government and have not fully conducted an integrated analysis. To close these knowledge gaps, this study includes public service satisfaction that was constructed with the subcomponents economic support, education, and public safety and trust in local government as factors affecting community satisfaction. Moreover, this study verified the mediating effect of trust in local government between public service satisfaction and community satisfaction. Online surveys were carried out with 980 residents in Jeonbuk, Korea, and structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed. The results indicated that public service satisfaction affected community satisfaction directly or indirectly. In particular, the satisfaction with public safety influenced community satisfaction both directly and indirectly. In addition, trust in local government had a mediating effect between all sub-components of public service satisfaction and community satisfaction. Today, regional disparity between urban and rural areas in developing countries is widening. As a result, residents in rural areas are gradually moving to urban areas. Therefore, rural areas need to increase the community satisfaction of their residents. In this regard, this study suggests important policy implications for community satisfaction enhancement.

The Provenance of Lapis Lazuli, the Written Sources, and its Distribution as Pigment in the Wall Paintings of Central Asia and the Middle East

  • Claudio, SECCARONI;Michael, JUNG
    • Acta Via Serica
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.89-108
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    • 2022
  • Since the most ancient times, lapis lazuli had been used for luxury goods such as jewelry and seals, to embellish sculptures and weapons or the precious objects of tombs, such as the golden mask of Tutankhamon or the famous "Standard" of the royal cemetery of Ur. Much more recent seems to be its frequent use as a pigment in wall paintings or polychrome stucco. In this article, the question of the sources for this extremely rare mineral is briefly discussed and the places proposed by ancient scholars as deposits of the mineral are presented and examined. The information provided in the medieval Arabic and Persian scientific literature has been considered and compared with the data of our modern geological knowledge. A list of sites in Central Asia, the Middle East, and India with lapis lazuli occurrence on wall paintings illustrate its wide use in different artistic cultures and periods between the 2nd and 10th centuries C.E. These cultures are in fact different in ethnic and linguistic origin and in the religious, economic, and social sphere, but closely interconnected by common pan-regional artistic traditions in style, materials, and techniques employed. A case study investigated by the authors in the Friday Mosque of Iṣfahān gives an example of the use of lapis lazuli pigment in Islamic wall paintings and stuccoes.

The Importance of Employees Redistribution in South Sulawesi Higher Educations, Indonesia

  • SALEH, Haeruddin;HAMKA, Husain;MAIDIN, Rusdi;MANDA, Darmawati
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.43-53
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: This research aims to provide solutions for human resource problems in public educational institutions to improve employee performance. Research design, data, and methods: The study used a quantitative approach with a survey method. Data were obtained through questionnaires and documentation. Meanwhile, the model used path analysis using Analysis Moment Structure (AMOS) software. Results: Results showed that there was a significant relationship between locus of control and redistribution variables on employee empowerment as well as on employee performance. This result implied that good management through the locus of control and employee redistribution in public organizations could be better to serve the community and organizations. Public change to be superior and demanded by the community to make it a good place to learn. Employees' good behavior and increasing competence can satisfy users of educational and sustainable institutions. Conclusion: To sum up, research on management development of locus of control and employee redistribution is needed to make public organizations, especially those engaged in education. This study provides academic implications by revealing that the locus of control factor and employee redistribution in public organizations are needed to improve institutional services.

A Study on the Characteristics of Advanced Farm Managers - Focusing on the Achievement Contents of the Prize Winners of the Daesan Rural Culture Award - (선진 농업경영인 특성에 관한 연구 -대산농촌문화상 수상자들의 공적 내용을 중심으로-)

  • Lee, S.Y.;Joo, J.S.;Shin, Y.K.;Kim, J.S.
    • Journal of Practical Agriculture & Fisheries Research
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.87-101
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    • 2019
  • This study analyzed the executive characteristics of farmers in the achievement contents of prize winners who can be called advanced farmers. According to the analysis, advanced farmers were responsible for developing new agricultural technologies and extending into farmers in the 1990s to increase productivity. In the 2000s, individual farmers were organized to contribute to regional agricultural development by the advanced farmers. In the future, advanced farmers should play a role in the sustainable agriculture through the multi functional value oriented agriculture.

Grounded Theory Analysis of Youth Local Entrepreneurship in the Digital Nomad Era (디지털 노마드 시대의 청년로컬창업에 대한 근거이론 분석)

  • Cho Jaehee;Pack Sanghyeok
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.149-160
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    • 2024
  • This paper was conducted to improve understanding of how the start-up process affects the local community and how young entrepreneurs build and grow their businesses in the process through analysis of young people who started businesses in the region. The research method was conducted through in-depth interviews with 10 young entrepreneurs who started businesses in the western Gyeongsangnam-do region, where population decline is prominent, and the collected data was analyzed through a grounded theory approach to derive common and meaningful themes between each case. proceeded. As a result of the study, insights were derived about the background of entrepreneurs settling in the region, the motivation for starting a business using local resources, the impact of government and local government support, business strategies for sustainable growth, and the entrepreneurs' personal performance. Through this analysis, we hope to provide important insights into the positive impact local entrepreneurship has on the community and how young entrepreneurs contribute to local development.

A Study on Spatial Characteristics and Models for Rural Revitalization in Gurye-Gun, Jeollanamdo (농촌활성화를 위한 전라남도 구례군의 농촌공간특성 및 모델 연구)

  • Im, Hyo-Won;Lee, Se-Yeon;Lee, Ji-In;Yun, Se-Eun;Lee, Min-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.21-32
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    • 2024
  • This study aimed to suggest the direction of sustainable rural development through the analysis of existing rural revitalization policies and rural status. This study also aimed to explore ways to revitalize the agricultural-oriented rural economy and improve the settlement environment in consideration of the characteristics of rural spaces. Based on the results, we created a regional crop-specific agricultural space, planned concentration, farmland maintenance, and joint agricultural facilities to secure agricultural competitiveness. It also plans a walking-oriented settlement environment to create a safe and pleasant rural village. Finally, by overcoming the limitations of the existing land-use plan, a sub-concept rural spatial plan reflecting the characteristics of rural areas was proposed, and the rural revitalization plan was studied.

Analysis of the Ecological Efficiency of Chinese Provincial Based on the Three-stage DEA Model (3단계 DEA모델을 이용한 중국의 에코 효율성 측정에 관한 연구)

  • Na, Sang Gyun;Niu, Jian Guang
    • Management & Information Systems Review
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.307-327
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    • 2017
  • Ecological efficiency is an important index measuring and reflecting the sustainable development level of economy, resources and environment in a region. This paper makes an empirical study on the ecological efficiency of 31 provinces in China in 2014 with the three-stage DEA model. The results show that the three indexes, the total investment in environmental governance (Unit: hundred million Yuan), the second industry proportion(%), and per capita automobile ownership (car/ten thousand people) functioning as the external environmental variables have significantly impacted the regional ecological efficiency. Excluding the impact of the external environment and statistical noise, the technical efficiency of regional ecological efficiency has increased from 0.526 to 0.639, and the pure technical efficiency has increased from 0.650 to 0.858, with the scale efficiency decreased from 0.833 to 0.740, accurately reflecting the regional ecological efficiency level. 31 Chinese provinces are classified into four different types according to the pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency. Every region shall, according to the characteristics of its efficiency, emphasize differently on improving the management level or expanding the scale of production so as to improve the ecological efficiency.

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Carbon control and environmental policy in the U.K. : A reappraisal of strategies for the green state (영국의 탄소규제와 환경정책 : 녹색국가 전략의 재평가)

  • Choi, Byung-Doo;Shin, Hae-Ran
    • Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.301-323
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    • 2013
  • The government of the UK since the 1990, especially under the new Labour Party, has pursued sustainable development or carbon control as a core strategy for its national development. The seemingly prominent environmental policy for 'greening the government' of the UK as well as considerable achievements in energy and environment indices have attracted much attentions of policy makers and researchers for the 'low carbon green growth' in Korea. This paper tries to see the character of carbon control and environmental policy in the UK not merely as the integrating or mainstreaming policy but a new strategy for national development, that is, for the 'ecologically modernized' state, eco-state, or green state. It defines the environmental policy for carbon control in the UK as the strategy for the green state which has provided it as a principal guide for integrating national policies as a whole, and which has pursued it through market-dependent neoliberal measures. From this point of view, this paper introduces the development process of carbon control and environmental policy mainly under the new Labour Party government in the UK, and gives a reappraisal of both its policy and of energy-environment indices.

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