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Improvement in Legislative Assessment of the Environmental Conservation Value Assessment Map Considering the Restriction on Acts of Special-Purpose Areas (용도 지역 행위 제한을 고려한 국토환경성평가지도 법제적 평가 개선)

  • Yang, Hyun-Jae;Kim, Geun-Han;Yoon, Jeong-Ho;Jun, Chul-Min;Lee, Eun-Jung;Hwang, So-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.13-30
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    • 2018
  • In terms of environmental friendly land use and objective environmental assessment, legislative assessment items of Environmental Conservation Value Assessment Map (ECVAM) consists of designated areas related to conservation and protection, and areas that are planned to be designated in the future. However, the gap with the reality due to omission of several protection areas and land use regulations, and assessment grades according to 3 division land use map of forest, agricultural land, and urbanized area, results in low application and utilization of ECVAM. Therefore in this study, the legislative assessment of the ECVAM was performed with new assessment items and its new ratings, to suggest an improvement in legislative assessment items of the ECVAM. As a result, legally protected areas of inhabited islands under absolute conservation, special wildlife protection districts, protected marine areas, environmental preservation sea areas, scenic spots, forest protection zone, traditional temple preservation zone, and 45 zone or district related to regulation of land use were additionally designated as new legislative assessment items. New grade ratings were given to each additional assessment items in consideration of the restrictions on acts. As a result of the legislative assessment based on the new assessment items and new grades, the 1st grade area increased by 3.47%, and the 2nd grade area increased by 19.35%. The 3rd grade area decreased by 8.54%, the 4th grade area increased by 2.95%, and 5th grade increased by 2.91%. In addition, the out-of-grade area decreased by 20.14%, considered to be a realistic assessment based on land use. With the improved legislative assessment, it is possible to provide a more accurate environmental assessment map. Increase usage of ECVAM is expected in providing regulations of land use and base data for integrated land management of land environmental planning.

Some Thoughts on the Issues and Improvement Strategies for Coastal Zone Safety through Field Survey-Safety Standards (실태조사를 통한 연안역 안전의 문제점 및 개선방향에 관한 소고-안전기준)

  • Yi, Gyu-Sei;Sung, Ik-Hyun;Bae, Sang-Won;Lim, Nam-Hyoung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.53-57
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    • 2011
  • Recently, the risk of safety accidents in the coastal zone has been increased due to revitalization of marine leisure and tourism. The effective measures, however, to prevent safety accidents in the coastal zone have not taken with increasing rate of the accidents. The nature of land and sea should be taken into account properly when the countermeasures to prevent the safety accidents in the coastal zone are devised, since the characteristics of land and sea are mixed in the environmental condition of the coastal zone. Through the field survey, this study analyzes the current problems on the safety in the coastal zone. Also, it suggests the future direction of the safety standards in the coastal zone on the basis of the safety improvement direction in the coastal zone.

Reclamation and Soil Improvement on Ultra Soft Soil (I) - Reclamation (초연약지반의 매립 및 지반개량 사례 연구 (I) - 매립)

  • Na, Yung-Mook;Hong, Eui;Han, Jung-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.23-31
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    • 2005
  • The "Silt Pond" is 180 hectares in size and contained ultra soft slurry-like soil varying between 3 to 20 meters in thickness. Reclamation works in the Silt Pond commenced in the mid of 1990s. A considerable amount of subsurface investigation inclusive of sampling, field vane and density logging tests were carried out prior to the reclamation of the Silt Pond. Since material in the Silt Pond is extremely soft, filling was done by spreading sand with high water content in thin and equal thickness lifts, allowing the stability of the slurry-like foundation. Despite the extreme care taken, failures occurred during the sand spreading phase. A large piece of high strength geotextile measuring $900m{\times}700m$ was placed to strengthen the slurry like soil foundation at locations where the ultra-soft soil was found to be exposed. Following the remedial works, the Silt Pond was again reclaimed by sand spreading up to +4.0m CD. The success of the reclamation was confirmed by marine CPT profiling.

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Effects of Water Temperature, Salinity, Rearing Density and Food Supply on the Growth and Survival of the Surf Clam, Tresus keenae Larvae (수온, 염분, 사육밀도 및 먹이공급이 왕우럭(Tresus keenae) 유생의 성장과 생존에 미치는 영향)

  • Kang, Han Seung;Kim, Chul Won
    • Journal of Marine Life Science
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.67-73
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    • 2018
  • This study was conducted to investigate the influence of environmental factors such as water temperature, salinity, rearing density and feeding amount on the survival and development of larvae in surf clam, Tresus keenae. As a result of this study, the optimum conditions of larval rearing were as follows. The optimum range of water temperature is 20℃ to 24℃, the optimum salinity is 30 psu, the optimum rearing density is 5 ind./ml and the supply of mixed feed organism for larva rearing such as Isochrysis galbana, Chaetoceros simplex and Tetraselmis suecica is 10×104 cells/ml. The results of this study suggest that the optimum conditions of environmental factors in larval rearing of Tresus keenae contribute to productivity improvement through rapid growth and high survival.

Present Status of the Quality Assurance and Control (QA/QC) for Korean Macrozoobenthic Biological Data and Suggestions for its Improvement (해양저서동물의 정량적 자료에 대한 정도관리 현실과 개선안)

  • CHOI, JIN-WOO;KHIM, JONG SEONG;SONG, SUNG JOON;RYU, JONGSEONG;KWON, BONG-OH
    • The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.263-276
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    • 2021
  • Marine benthic organisms have been used as the indicators for the environment assessment and recently considered as a very important component in the biodiversity and ecosystem restoration. In Korean waters, the quantitative data on marine benthos was used as one of major components for the marine pollution assessment for 50 years since 1970s. The species identification which is an important factor for the quantitative biological data was mainly performed by the marine benthic ecologists. This leads to the deterioration of the data quality on marine benthos from the misidentication of major taxonomic groups due to the lack of taxonomic expertise in Korea. This taxonomic problem has not been solved until now and remains in most data from national research projects on the marine ecosystems in Korean waters. Here we introduce the quality assurance and control (QA/QC) system for the marine biological data in UK, that is, NMBAQC (Northeast Atlantic Marine Biological Analytic and Quality Control) Scheme which has been performed by private companies to solve similar species identification problems in UK. This scheme asks for all marine laboratories which want to participate to any national monitoring programs in UK to keep their identification potency at high level by the internal quality assurance systems and provides a series of taxonomic workshops and literature to increase their capability. They also performs the external quality control for the marine laboratories by performing the Ring Test using standard specimens on various faunal groups. In the case of Korea, there are few taxonomic expertise in two existing national institutions and so they can't solve the taxonomic problems in marine benthic fauna data. We would like to provide a few necessary suggestions to solve the taxonomic problems in Korean marine biological data in short-terms and long-terms: (1) the identification of all dominant species in marine biological data should be confirmed by taxonomic expertise, (2) all the national research programs should include taxonomic experts, and (3) establishing a private company, like the Korea marine organism identification association (KMOIA), which can perform the QA/QC system on the marine organisms and support all Korean marine laboratories by providing taxonomic literature and species identification workshops to enhance their potency. The last suggestion needs more efforts and time for the establishment of that taxonomic company by gathering the detailed contents and related opinions from diverse stakeholders in Korea.

A Study of Status Analysis on the Color-Scape about National Harbor Gangneung-Anmock and Coastal Street (국가어항 강릉 안목항과 해안가로의 경관색채 현황분석 연구)

  • Cho, Won-Seok;Kim, Heung-Gee;Kim, Yong-Ki
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.59-66
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    • 2008
  • This paper analyzed the color of harbor and fishing village for the better landscape. Accordingly the aim of this study is to find out the color-scape in harbor, such as regional color and present status are to analyze with elements of design. In beginning point of development, it is to take practicable data about color planning for marine tourism. Regarding the utility of these characteristics, hue, value, chroma can be checked and design of color-scape may be possible to work out future harbor environments. This study suggests that harbor of contemporary is to be environmental harmony and regional color control. The result of this research, it is carried out that the color-scape is checked by partnership of experts, official and regional person with "agreement of landscape" to provide reasonable criteria in color surroundings. An analysis of regional color-scape is expected to use for landscape improvement of fishing village and harbor.

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The Effect of Remodeling Replacement of Photovoltaic Power Generation System in Fish Farm : Analysis of Energy Saving Effect through Simulation (수조식 양식장의 태양광발전시스템 리모델링 교체 효과: 시뮬레이션을 통한 에너지절감효과 분석)

  • Choi, Hyunseok;Na, Jonghyuk;Lee, Hyunyoung;Noh, Jayeop
    • Current Photovoltaic Research
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.11-16
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    • 2021
  • In the past, marine pollution caused by radioactivity and wastewater discharge caused mass destruction. As an alternative, the land farming system became common and operational. In recent years, safety and environmental problems caused by declining population due to aging of fishermen and underdeveloped facilities have always been lurking, so improvement is urgently needed. As part of the new renewable energy 3020 plan announced by the government in 2017, a new model was proposed to improve the environment as well as save energy when the roof of a water tank farm was remodeled into a solar power system. Study, when the existing roof was remodeled and replaced with a water tank farm in Busan as an empirical model, the energy saving rate was analyzed by comparing the actual electricity consumption and power generation.

Study on the Improvement of Ballast Water Risk Assessment of GloBallast (GloBallast 선박평형수 위해도평가 방법의 개선방안에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, S.G.;Kang, W.S.;Kim, E.C.;Shin, K.S.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.224-229
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    • 2011
  • Recently, the management of the marine invasive alien species introduced by ballast water has come to the core as an urgent task. Because, hazardous organisms cause harmful effects on the ecosystem. Hazardous organisms also negatively affect fisheries, commercial shipping activities, and marine resources. In this regard, IMO used to operate GloBallast, Ballast Water Risk Assessment System, in order to manage the introduction of invasive species by ballast water. GloBallast is constructed to assess the relative risk due to the movement of ballast water between nations, using the volume and the number of times of ballast water discharge, the environmental similarity between ports, and the abundance of hazardous species as the main factors. According to the results of the demo-operation of GloBallast, it was found out that the environmental similarity factor had affected most highly the results of risk assessment. Therefore, in this study, the correlation between the main factors used in GloBallast risk assessment were re-examined, and some methods were suggested in order to reflect these main factors in the risk assessment more reasonable.

Improvement of Water Quality in Shrimp Aquaculture Farms of Southwestern Coastal Area of Korea (서남해역 새우 양식장의 수질현황과 수질개선방안)

  • Kim Do-Hee;Lee Ha-Ju
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.159-163
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    • 2004
  • This study was performed to estimate the water quality of pH, salinity, dissolved oxygen, ammonium and sulfur hydroxides of sediment in shrimp aquaculture farms of Southwestern coastal of Korea from June to September, 2003. We surveyed the status of water quality and achieved the improve water and sediment quality to restraint the production of ammonium and sulfur hydroxides from sediment of shrimp aquaculture farms. The concentrations of dissolved oxygen increased from noon to the evening for 6 hour and decreased to 2.98 ppm at six o'clock in the next morning and increased repeatedly, even though DO level has a different level in sunny day and cloudy day. This results suggest that the most importance time of the control of DO in shrimp aquaculture farm is next early morning and if the DO concentration increased continuously which may be growing up the concentrations of NH₄/sup +/ and H₂S. The measured of pH and salinity were suitable to growth of shrimp. However, the level of ammonium and sulfur hydroxides produced from the sediments of shrimp aquaculture farms were 2.30 ppm and 0.075 ppm, respectively, which are exceeded to the concentration of guide line for the growth of shrimp. In the results of this study, we found it difficult to improve the water quality using of the present frame of shrimp aquaculture farms. Then, we can improved water quality of DO, NH₄/sup +/ and sediment quality of ORP, H₂S and also achieved down to the rate of shrimp fatal by changed the frame of shrimp aquaculture farms in the scale of laboratory.

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Strength Characteristics of Solidified Soil with Hardening Agents made of Industrial By-Products (산업부산물을 이용한 지반고화제 혼합토의 강도특성)

  • Kim, Youngsang;Yu, Geunmo;Mun, Kyoungju
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2012
  • In this study, geotechnical tests including unconfined compression test were carried out to evaluate the ground improvement effect of the hardening agent, which has been developed by using inter-chemical reactions between slag, fly ash, phosphogypsum and bypass dust on the weathered granite soil and dredged marine clay. Test results show that the strength of weathered granite soil mixed with hardening agent B-2, which uses phosphogypsum as an activator, is higher than that of B-1, which uses bypass dust as an activator. Strengths of B-1 & B-2 hardening agent mixed soil show only 44%~60% of strength of OPC(Ordinary Portland Cement, OPC) mixed soil. However, since B-1 and B-2 agents are made of industrial by-products, they seem economically more effective than ordinary portland cement as well as other present hardening agents. Test results on dredged marine clay show that unconfined compression strength increases with amount of agent and curing days. Unconfined compression strength of 14% B-1 agent mixed soil increases linearly with curing days and reaches only 40% of OPC mixed soil. While unconfined compression strength of 14% B-2 agent mixed soil increases exponentially and reaches 133% of OPC mixed soil. Relationship between deformation modulus and unconfined compression strength of B-1 and B-2 mixed soil can be expressed as $E_{50}=(20{\sim}47)_{qu,28}$, which is similar with lower limit of OPC mixed dredged marine clay.