• Title/Summary/Keyword: environmental issues

Search Result 2,482, Processing Time 0.034 seconds

The Cultivation of Environmental Sensitivity through Environmental Literary Experience (환경문학체험을 통한 환경감수성 함양)

  • Baek, Gye-Eun;Nam, Sang-Joon
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
    • /
    • v.24 no.4
    • /
    • pp.41-50
    • /
    • 2011

  • This study examines how literary experiences cultivate environmental sensitivity. In this study we have 3 children(6th graders) to experience 3 selected literary works. The experience of 3 children focusing on characters is divided into 'sympathy', 'identification' and 'hostility' by empathy types. In literary experiences, children naturally support the values pursued by main characters. The experience focusing on plot events is consists of 'sympathy' and 'advice'. The children agreed with the way how the characters solved environmental issues while involved in the events by offering advice to characters whose actions they did not agree to. The experience focusing on topics is divided into 'assimilation' and 'reflection'. The children experienced the assimilation process. Furthermore, they reflected on new environmental issues. This result suggests literary experience subserve children to reflect value through empathy and cultivate their intention toward pro-environmental behavior by generating environmental sensitivity.

  • PDF

Review of Epidemiological Research and Perspectives for Future Environmental Health Progress in Korea (한국 환경보건 발전에 대한 역학 연구의 기여 및 전망)

  • Lee, Kyoung-Mu;Park, Moon-Young
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
    • /
    • v.48 no.3
    • /
    • pp.138-150
    • /
    • 2022

  • Background: Epidemiology is a fundamental study of public health, including environmental health, since the features and causes of diseases discovered through epidemiology provide crucial information for developing successful disease prevention strategies. Objectives: This paper tried to define the role and function of epidemiologic research in the field of environmental health, summarize examples of epidemiological studies with regard to selected environmental health events in South Korea, and address important issues that should be considered when conducting epidemiological research in the future. Methods: Epidemiological studies of selected environmental health events were reviewed and summarized in terms of their contribution to environmental health in South Korea. Based on the information, important issues were suggested for future epidemiological studies in environmental health. Results: The role and function of epidemiologic research in the field of environmental health includes the systematic description of the health effects caused by environmental exposure, verification of the causal relationship between environmental exposure and health effects, and provision of background data for conducting prevention strategies and developing policies. A number of epidemiological studies have contributed to characterizing and assessing the environmental risks involved in a series of environmental health events in South Korea. Conclusions: Important issues for future epidemiological studies may include health effects from chronic low-level environmental exposure, application of analytical epidemiology to elucidate causal relationships, use of exposure/disease/susceptibility biomarkers, accurate reconstruction of past exposure status, cohort recruitment and long-term follow-up, and in-advance surveillance of diseases with environmental causes.

  • https://doi.org/10.5668/JEHS.2022.48.3.138 인용 PDF KSCI

Study on the Differences of Managing to Environmental Issues of Firms between Korea and U.S. (한국과 미국 기업간 환경관리 실천차이에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Heon-Bae;Lee, Il-Han
    • International Commerce and Information Review
    • /
    • v.8 no.2
    • /
    • pp.275-296
    • /
    • 2006

  • Environmental management systems offer a set of management tools and principles that can help integrate environmental concerns into daily business practices. Such systems have been in existence since the 1980's. This research identifies the firm's implementation of environmental management that is the most and least popular for managing the environmental management such as 3R's, EM, EMS, environmental awareness. This article investigates the differences of managing to environmental issues of firms between Korea and U.S. The research results suggest that the U.S. firms control of 3R's, EM and EMS better than Korea's, while Korean firms have higher environmental awareness than U.S. firms.

  • PDF

Environmental Economic Studies in Korea (한국의 환경경제학 연구)

  • Kim, Il-Chung;Park, Keun Soo
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
    • /
    • v.10 no.3
    • /
    • pp.289-322
    • /
    • 2001

  • This paper introduces the environmental economic studies in Korea, focused especially on the environmental regulation policy and valuation of environmental resources in Korea. It can be seen from this survey that the Korean environmental economists have had most of their interests in socially hot issues such as the evaluation and alternatives of the existing environmental policy instruments, and the impacts of both the environmental regulation and greenhouse gas reduction policies, as well as economic valuation of environmental assets including air, water, and ecosystem. We need more intensive research on issues of the evaluation of individual public investment, enforcement, transaction costs and income distribution and inter-generational equity. More attention should also be paid to the valuation methods and environmental data.

  • PDF