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Residents' Consciousness about the Energy Resource and the Environmental Impact at Green Building Certificated Housing Complex (친환경건축물인증 단지 거주자의 에너지자원 및 환경부하에 대한 의식 연구)

  • Kim, Jae-Eun;Kwon, Oh-Jung
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.257-262
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    • 2009
  • In green building certificated housing complex, although various planning factors in terms of 'Energy resource and Environmental impact' were adopted, the residents' consciousness for their economical and psycholgical effect has not been found. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to find out the usability of environment-friendly factors, with regard to the aspects of 'energy resource and environment impact' and residents, consciousness for them in order to provide the useful information to design the user-oriented green building house complex better than previous ones. the finding were summarized as follows: 1)Increasing awareness of 'green building certificated housing complex', Resident should feel contribution to the environment. 2)When mass housing planning, the development of sensible certification is required. 3)Green building certificated housing complex should change from 'certification for the Financial compensation' to 'certification for the Contribution to the environment'.

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The System of Waste Home Appliances Recycling in Taiwan

  • Ma, H.K.;Li, K.C.;Wu, N.M.;Chang, W.C.
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.43-47
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    • 2001
  • The waste home appliances including television sets, refrigerators, washing machines and air conditioners have increasingly received environmental concerns in Taiwan. In light of the enforcement of Waste Disposal Act (WDA), the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) has certified 60 recycling/storage facilities and given permission for qualified companies to build six treatment plants around the island. Now the recycling and well treatment home appliances are estimated to be 3,342,369 units until May 31, 2001. This paper describes the present status of waste home appliance recycle and its treatment in Taiwan. The principle guidelines and policies regarding recycling, resource recovery and environmental concerns are presented.

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Water Pollution and Economic Growth in Western China

  • Lu, Xing;Lei, Shi;Weili, Ye
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.629-641
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    • 2007
  • Chinese government has implemented the West Development Strategy since 1999 to boost the region's growth and prevent the environmental degradation. Until now, the regional economy and living standard in Western China have been greatly improved, while it also indicated by the State Council that the ecological environment still deteriorated with part improvement, and pressure of water shortage increased. The paper focus on the relationship of GDP per capita and the volume of industrial waste water discharge of all the 12 provinces in Western China from 1989 to 2004, by the expanded EKC model in the cubic form. Results show that they mainly have down trend in the whole sample space but small up trend in the recent years. That means controlling of industrial wastewater discharge is still an important task to be insisted in the Western China.

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Recent Trend for the Application of Total Economic Value (TEV) Estimation to Groundwater Resources (지하수자원의 경제적 가치 평가 적용과 관련한 최근동향)

  • Song, Sung-Ho;White, Paul;Zemansky, Gil
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2012
  • Total Economic Value (TEV) provides a framework to estimate the economic value of water resources including groundwater with multiple applications to natural resource economics and environmental economics. Crucial to the application of economic analysis to natural resources are techniques to value the resources as an economic value that is expressed in monetary terms. On the other hand, the aim of TEV estimation is to determine the economic value of water resources including 'use' with production and recreation and 'non-use' such as existence values. TEV is used to assess the economic value of water resources for the multiple goods, and environmental 'services' that are provided by a water resource and also used to assess options for water use, for example balancing production values provided by water resource use against the cost of resource degradation by that use. The value of TEV can be assessed over time where pollution or unsustainable use may reduce the economic value of an environmental asset. Therefore, values are used to assess options of resource use, sometimes leading to policies on resource conservation or allocation. In conclusion, the application of TEV would be well adjusted over Jeju Island where groundwater resources account for more than 98% water resources and the budget of water demand/supply shows disparity over the Island.

Modelling Study on Sustainable Resources Management System Using Material Flow Analysis(MFA) in Korea (물질흐름분석을 이용한 국내 지속가능한 자원관리 시스템 모형 연구)

  • Kim, Yu-Jeong;Kim, Seong-Yong;Heo, Eun-Nyeong
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.253-265
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    • 2008
  • Sustainable resource management(SRM) is regarded as the core strategy to achieve Dematerialisation and Decoupling of economic growth from the use of natural resources and environmental degradation. This paper presents status SRM policy and research in worldwide, and analyzes decoupling of economic activity from energy consumption of domestic manufacturing, using decoupling factor. Also This paper suggests methodologies and strategies of SRM in Korea. SRM is established through various analysis and survey as following; forecasting of resource demand, material flow analysis and value chain analysis, resource market structure analysis. Through these analysis, we can obtain hot-spot and solution of environmental burden, recycling market management, recycling technology and best-optimal supply rate of primary and secondary resource. In Korea, resource management system must be linked with national and regional material flow analysis, and it is necessary to make SRM-law of national dimension for effective run of sustainable resource management system.

Calculation and Analysis of Actual Recycling Rate and Final Disposal Rate of Industrial Waste by Material Flow Analysis (물질흐름분석을 통한 사업장폐기물의 실제적인 재활용률과 최종처분율의 산정 및 분석)

  • Oh, Gil-Jong;Cho, Yoon-A;Kim, Ji-Yeon;Kim, Ki-Heon
    • Journal of Korea Society of Waste Management
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    • v.35 no.8
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    • pp.785-798
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    • 2018
  • Since the Framework Act on Resource Circulation was enacted in 2018, the government should establish a National Resource Circulation Master Plan every 10 years, which defines mid- to long-term policy goals and directions on the efficient use of resources, prevention of waste generation and recycling of waste. In addition, we must set mid- to long-term and stepwise targets for the final disposal rate, recycling rate (based on sorted recyclable materials and recycled products), and energy recovery rate of wastes, and relevant measures should be taken to achieve these targets. However, the current industrial waste (IW) statistics have limitations in setting these targets because the final disposal rate and recycling rate are calculated as the ratio of the recycling facility input to the IW generation. In this study, the material flow from the collection stage to the final disposal of industrial waste was analyzed based on the generation of 2016, and the actual recycling amount, actual incineration amount, final disposal amount and their rates were calculated. The effect on the recycling, incineration and final disposal rates was examined by changing the treatment method of nonhazardous wastes from the factory and construction and demolition wastes, which were put in landfills in 2016. In addition, the variation of the waste treatment charge was investigated according to the change of treatment methods. The results of this study are expected to be effectively used to establish the National Resource Circulation Master Plan and industrial waste management policy in the future in South Korea.

The Distribution of Pollution Abatement Costs among Income Classes in Korea (환경오염 저감비용의 소득계층별 분담)

  • Kim, Il Chung;Shin, Dong Chun
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.545-562
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    • 2000
  • Environmental regulation affects real income distribution as well as resource allocation. The consumers' quality of life is sure to be improved by the pollution abatement, but consumers should pay part of the abatement cost through the increased prices of consumption goods they purchase. This paper computes pollution abatement costs that each of 15 income classes in Korea paid indirectly by consuming goods whose prices include the abatement cost in 1993. The distribution of pollution abatement costs among income classes turns out to be regressive as expected.

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A Study of the Resource-Recycling Waste Management at Schools (자원 순환형 학교 폐기물 관리 방안 연구)

  • Nam Young-Sook;Ji Seung-Hyun;Woo Jung-Ae;Jo Yi-Sang;Ahn Young-Hee
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.19 no.2 s.30
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    • pp.69-80
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    • 2006
  • A 'Resource recycling society' is the common goal to reduce environmental impact from human activities and to conserve natural resources. The Resource-Recycling Waste Management is necessary to explicitly show objectives, and to evaluate the achievement level gained by school administration. In this paper, focusing on resource-recycling school waste management, three indicators are designed to evaluate the present conditions of school waste management, which include evaluation of school policy, waste management and education for waste management by school administration. Each indicator is made up of three or four questions that are supposed to be answered by school managers, teachers and students. Questionnaire surveys, which is based on the resource-recycling school waste management indicators, were carried out in elementary school, middle school and high school in the National Capital region. The resulting of indicators well describe the situation of school waste management among these schools. Influential strategies towards resource-recycling school waste management have been found in analysis.

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