• 농촌계획
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to analyze emergy flows of rice for evaluating the value of rice production and sustainability. Emergy analysis evaluates the sustainability of systems or processes considering all the inputs to make a product or a sevice. In this study, we analyzed the emergy flows and indices of rice productionand compared the regional emergy values using statisticcal analysis: input materials, hours per unit area(10a), and production costs. As the results, we found that the rates of external investment (EIR= 18.87) and environmental loading (ELR=21.7) are significantly high during the rice cultivation. However, emergy yield ratio(EYR) shows that rice is a valuable resource because EYR is 5.12 and environmental Sustainability IndexSI value is as low as 0.24 and it shows rice has low sustainability. This study also shows that Chungcheongnam-do has the highest SI value for rice production due to low environmental loading and abundant natural energy during rice cultivation. These results of rice emergy flows and sustainability assessments could provide a way of sustainable rice cultivation with decrease of environmental loading from fertilizer.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.335-343
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• 2017

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is an important policy implemented before starting development projects to estimate and reduce environmental impact. However, the difficulty of quantification on several rating categories has hampered comprehensive analysis. Instead of it, the current EIA just summarizes outcome of investigation. Therefore, EIA fails to definitively ascertain whether the development shold be approved or not. This study aimed at providing the way to comprehensive decision-making by applying Emergy analysis and Emergy indicators to EIA. Production (P), Emergy Yield Ratio (EYR), Environmental Loading Ratio (ELR) and Emergy Sustainability Index (ESI) were selected for indicators. The indicators of range approving the development were set up with comparing before and after development or according to circumstances of which view of average that was classified as region or industry is appropriate to analysis. As a result, the value after development of P should be higher than the value before development. EYR and ESI of the value before development should be higher than region or industry average. On the contrary to these, ELR of the value after development should be lower than region or industry average. To verify applying Emergy indicators to EIA comprehensive analysis, Emergy evaluation was conducted to real case. As a result, applying Emergy analysis could suggest whether the development is appropriate or not. These indices and the result of this research are expected to be applied decision-making on environmental impact for sustainable development.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.87-92
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• 2002

The emergy (spelled with an 'm') concept was introduced to provide a new insight into ecosystem restoration efforts in Korea. The emergy is defined as the available energy of one kind previously required directly and indirectly to make a product or service. It is an effort to evaluate the true contributions of natural resources to our economy. It tries to include both contributions from natures free works and human services to develop and process natural resources. The emergy evaluation can be used to select a restoration alternative that yields more to the economy with less stress to the environment, by comparing different alternatives with indices expressed in emergy. It can also be used to assess the success of ecosystem restoration projects. Pulsing dynamics in which a slow build-up of production is followed by a frenzied consumption in relatively short time period seems to be a general feature of all systems. Any ecosystem restoration effort, therefore, should consider the whole pulsing cycle for a successful implementation.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.689-700
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• 1996

1992년 국민총생산의 $1.85\%$를 차지하는 한국수산업을 자연환경과 경제활동을 하나의 시스템에서 동일한 가치 척도인 태양에너지로 나타내는 EMERGY 분석을 이용하여 자연환경의 기여도와 EMERGY지표를 작성하였다. 한국수산업의 전체 EMERGY유입량은 $634.64\times10^{20}\;sej/yr$이고, 이중 태양에너지는 전체 EMERGY의 $2.54\%$, 바람은 $1.21\%$, 비는 $23.55\%$, 조석은 $7.67\%$, 파도는 $9.77\%$, 하천은 $26.27\%$, 연료 $6.17\%$, 원양어획물은 $16.19\%$, 수입수산물은 $5.19\%$ 그리고 재화와 용역은 $1.44\%$를 나타내고 있었다. 자연환경 에너지원과 경제적인 에너지원의 점유율은 전체 수산업의 경우 $66\%,\;34\%$, 일반해면어업의 경우 $92\%,\;8\%$로 자연환경의 의존도가 높은 구조적인 특성을 잘 반영하고 있으며, 천해양식업의 경우 $44\%,\;56\%$을 차지하고 있어 일반해면어업과는 대조적으로 경제활동에 의존도가 높은 산업적 특성을 나타내고 있다. Net EMERGY yield ratio의 평가에서 전체 수산업, 일반해면어업, 천해양식업의 경우, 각각 2.98, 11.85, 1.78의 값을 나타내고 있어 한국의 일반해면어업의 경우는 뉴우질랜드 트롤어업의 자원으로서의 가치 보다는 적으나 1986년, 1987년도 시가로 원유와 석탄에 준하는 자원으로서의 가치를 나타내고 있었다. EMERGY investment ratio는 0.50, 0.09, 1.28로 나타나 바다라는 자연환경을 대상으로 하는 1차 산업의 특성때문에, 자연환경에 대한 경제적인 개발과 투자가 다른 시스템 (선진 공업국, 육상의 대도시)에 비해 적게 이루어지고 있음을 나타냈다. EMERGY exchange ratio로 전체 수산업, 일반해면어업, 천해양식업의 생산물을 평가하면 각각 6.93, 10.63, 1.25로, 소비자의 측면에서 보면 수산물에 내재된 자연환경 활동의 가치는 제대로 지불하지 않은 채로 인간의 경제활동에 대한 가치만 화폐로 지불하여 소비함으로 6.93, 10.63, 1.25배 만큼의 EMERGY 이득을 보고 있음을 나타났다. EMERGY 분석을 통한 한국수산업의 거시경제적인 가치 (Macroeconomic value)와 시장경제에 의한 평가사이에는 전체 수산업, 일반해면어업, 천해양식업의 경우 각각 6.98, 10.69, 1.25배의 가치 평가에 있어서 차이를 보이고 있었다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.507-514
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• 2013

The Nakdong River being used as drinking water sources for the Busan metropolitan city has the vulnerability of water management due to the fact that industrial areas are located in the upper Nakdong River. This study used emergy analysis method to evaluate ecological-economics of water treatment systems of D water treatment plant (WTP) where located in the downstream of the Nakdong River. The emergy methodology is a system evaluation tool that uses energy as the common currency to compare different resources on a common basis. Emergy yield ratio (EYR) and emergy sustainability index (EmSI) of D WTP were 1.16 and 0.18, respectively. It means not resources and sustainable system but consumer goods and not sustainable system. Ratio of emergy benefit to the purchaser (EBP) shows 2.7 times higher than economic costs. To change the weak water source and situations we need to diversity water intake.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.169-179
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• 2005

With the industrialization in Korea, the economy has invested more resources on industry and less on agricultural production. However, agriculture is still an important industry, since the whole nation depends on rice for their living. And the proportion of agricultural land is relatively large, which leads issuing environmental aspects of agriculture in this country. This study was conducted to evaluate the environmental and economical aspects of agriculture in Korea, using system ecological concept, Emergy. The total Emergy inflow of Korean agriculture was $336.57{\times}10^{20}\;sej{\cdot}yr^{-1}$ in 2003. Emergy yield ratio, the ratio of non-renewable and imported Energy use to renewable Emergy use, was 5.21, which shows the agriculture in Korea has such a value as that of the world oil resources in 1986. Also, total agricultural product was $13.55{\times}10^{16}\;J{\cdot}yr^{-1}$ in 2003 and the Energy inflow was $121.09{\times}10^{20}\;sej{\cdot}yr^{-1}$. From these data, solar transformity of Korean agriculture was estimated as $8.68{\times}10^4\;sej{\cdot}J^{-1}$.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.185-191
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• 2000

Sustainable development has been the key concept, both in economic policies and in environmental management since 1970s. In the view of systems ecology, sustainable resource use strategies are considered to be essential in achieving sustainable development. During the last three decades, the discipline of systems ecology has applied ecological energetic analysis to the evaluation of the contribution of natural environments to economic systems. ENERGY analysis of main energy flows driving the economy of humans and life support systems of a city was made including environmental energies, fuel, and inputs, all expressed as solar emjoules. Total EMERGY use of Pusan was 3.89 E22 sej/yr, about 90 percent of it was purchased sources from outside during eleven years from 1985 to 1995. EMERGY flows from the environment were less than 10 percent. EMERGY yield ratio and environmental loading ratio were 1.10 and 10.45, respectively. EMERGY sustainability index is there(ore less than one, which is indicative of highly developed consumer oriented economies. Development of a city has been achieved in the short run by the economic growth, but it can be sustained in the long run by the use of renewable resource systems.

• 환경생물
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.482-496
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• 2023

지난 수십 년간 국내 벼농사 시스템은 규모와 구조 측면에서 많은 변화가 있었으나, 이 시스템의 지속가능성에 대한 연구는 충분히 이뤄지지 않았다. 본 연구에서는 에머지 분석방법을 이용하여, 시스템 생태학의 관점에서 국내 벼농사 시스템의 지속가능성 변화를 분석하고자 했다. 이를 위해서, 2011년, 2016년, 2021년의 국내 벼농사 시스템에 대한 에머지 테이블을 작성하고 에머지 기반 지표 분석을 수행하였다. 에머지 분석 결과, 2011~2021년 동안의 논면적 감소에 따라 벼농사 시스템에 투입된 총 에머지는 10,744E+18 sej year^-1에서 8,342E+18 sej year^-1로 감소했고, 재생가능한 자원의 비율은 1.4% 감소한 것으로 나타났다. 면적당(ha) 투입된 에머지는 2011년 13.13E+15 sej ha^-1 year^-1에서 2021년 11.89E+15 sej ha^-1 year^-1로 감소한 것으로 분석되었고, 질소 비료 사용량 및 노동시간의 감소가 주된 원인이었다. 벼 1 g을 재배하는 데 투입되는 에머지는 2016년과 2021년 사이에 변화가 없었으나(specific emergy: 13.3E+09 sej g^-1), 벼농사 시스템의 지속가능성(emergy sustainability index, ESI)은 2011년부터 2021년까지 계속해서 낮아진 것으로 나타났다(2011년: 0.107, 2016년: 0.088, 2021년: 0.086). 본 연구는 국내 벼농사 시스템의 에머지 투입 구조 및 특징에 대한 정량적인 정보를 제공했다. 이 연구 결과는 국내 벼농사 시스템의 생태적 지속가능성 향상을 위한 방안을 구축하는 데 중요한 자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.134-143
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• 2016

전국 및 지역별 갯벌을 대상으로 갯벌생태계의 생태적 과정을 유지하고 생태계서비스를 제공하는데 기본 토대인 자연환경에너지(태양, 바람, 파도, 강수, 조석 등)를 통한 에머지 유입 특성을 분석하였다. 우리나라 갯벌생태계로 유입하는 자연환경에너지가 공급한 에머지 총량은 $4.98{\times}10^{21}sej/yr$이었는데, 이는 갯벌생태계의 유지에 필요한 기본적인 환경 조건이 제공하는 에머지량에 해당한다. 갯벌생태계로 유입하는 에머지량을 화폐 단위로 환산하면 1조1,412억 원/yr으로, 이것은 갯벌생태계가 제공하는 생태계서비스를 생산하는데 토대가 되는 환경적 조건의 가치에 해당한다. 지역별 갯벌의 면적 차이를 고려하여 단위면적당으로 나타낼 경우 우리나라 연안의 일반적인 조차 분포를 따라 인천-경기 지역에서 부산 지역으로 갈수록 단위면적당 에머지 유입량이 감소하였다. 지역별 갯벌의 단위면적당 에머지 유입량과 단위면적당 수산물 생산의 에머지량을 이용하여 갯벌생태계를 유지하는데 필요한 자연환경에너지의 에머지 유입 특성과 생태계서비스 사이의 관계를 개괄적으로 살펴본 결과 지역별 갯벌로 유입한 에머지량과 수산물 생산의 에머지량 사이에는 아주 명확한 관계가 나타나지는 않았다. 그러나 단위면적당 에머지 유입량이 더 많은 서해안 갯벌에서 생산한 수산물의 에머지량이 남해안 갯벌에서 생산한 수산물의 에머지량보다 더 많아 개별 갯벌생태계의 생태계서비스 잠재력을 나타내는데 자연환경에너지를 통한 에머지 유입량의 활용 가능성을 보여주었다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.243-252
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• 2006

The emergy concept was used to valuate the contributions of a tidal flat ecosystem included in the fourth stage reclamation plan for the Youngsan River area to the Korean economy. Emergy contributions of the ecosystem were compared with those of economic valuations performed on the same ecosystem. The tidal flat ecosystem contributed 3.55 million EmW/ha annually. This, however, cannot be compared directly with those of the economic valuations because both methodologies approach the valuation of ecosystems in different perspectives. The emergy methodology is a donor-based valuation in which what goes into making a product or service is measured, while the economic valuation is a receiver-based approach in which human receivers determine the value of an ecosystem product or service. An emergy valuation was conducted for the three ecosystem functions included in the economic valuations to compare the results of both methodologies on the same basis. Fishery production and pollutants removal contributed 9.86 million EmW/ha/yr and 0.88 million EmW/ha/yr, respective1y. The conservation value of the tidal flat ecosystem was 3.55 million EmW/ha/yr. Overall, the emergy valuation that try to include works of both human and nature on the same basis resulted in higher economic contribution of the tidal flat ecosystem than that calculated by the economic methodologies in which only human works are measured based on the willingness-to-pay of people. This study showed that the emergy concept could provide an alternative tool for policy decision-making regarding utilization and conservation of ecosystems by approaching the ecosystem valuation from a different perspective than that of economic methodologies.