• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.781-790
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• 2012

In midst of growing interest and awareness towards sustainability and being "green", there has been increased demand for sustainable clothing. In the purpose of boosting eco-friendly textiles industry, this research was conducted by investigating environmentally-conscious clothing behavior of university students and assessing their views on eco-friendliness of fibers. Thus, their awareness on recycled polyester fiber was evaluated. The research was conducted by surveying 257 university students residing in Daejeon. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, factor analysis, and reliability analysis, using SPSS 19.0. The results were as follows. 1) The majority of the subjects answered "Disposing clothing in the clothing recycling container" to reduce environmental impact. 2) Six factors of eco-friendliness of fiber were extracted as reutilization, unfinishedness, economics, environment preservation, natural materials, and slow fashion by using factor analysis. 3) Subjects scored organic cotton as most eco-friendly among various fibers. Recycled polyester fiber was graded less sustainable than natural fiber, but more eco-friendly than artificial one. 4) In assessment of subject's awareness of recycled polyester fiber, they highly valued on resource-reutilization and economics, but less valued on its hygiene, thermal insulation and health-functionality.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.185-207
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• 1996

It is frequently pointed out that the Korean economy, with its scarce natural resources, would never have been able to achieve current levels of economic development without the massive provision of well-educated, hardworking human resources. Throughout the industrialization process ,full-fledged deployment and mobilization of qualified human resources have been the foundation to industrial policy and S&T policy. This paper describes the development of S&T human resources in Korea using various statistics including educational enrollment rates, unemployment rates, the allocation of researchers and R&D expenditures among sectors of performance, educational composition of employment within and across industries, technical human resource shortage rates, relative wage levels of SMEs, and composition of labor force by age-group and gender. While analyzing S&T human resources development, this paper discusses issues such as the mismatched demand and supply of skill and knowledge levels of the highly educated, the unbalanced distribution of S&T human resources between sectors, and the low utilization of the female and aged labor force. This paper suggests that the policy maker applies a hybrid of quantitative and qualitative policies to reduce the mismatches of supply and demand of skill and knowledge levels for each labor market categorized according to supply side.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.61-78
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• 2013

The following four aspects should be examined in detail to revitalize North-East Asian agricultural cooperation specialized with Korea, Japan, and China. First, quality and safety standards of agricultural food should be unified. Secondly, it is necessary to build a food security cooperative system in North-East Asia. If three countries build the system, they can overcome a problem such as unstable supply and demand due to natural disaster, and also they can cope with food crisis. Thirdly, to establish North-East Asian Agro-valley is needed. After forming food production belt that connects Korea, Hokkaido in Japan, and the three north-eastern provinces in China, it is possible to realize high value-added agriculture with producing and processing of complementary food for partner country. Lastly, trilateral FTA negotiations should be managed carefully with operating the agricultural special zone and exclusion or prolong period of removal of tariff on sensitive items.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제67권2호
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• pp.173-178
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• 2018

This study organizes scenarios on the power supply and demand plans considering the uncertainties and the portion of distributed energy resources. In analysing the scenarios, it estimates total electricity supply cost in the social aspect, natural gas demand and air pollutants emission including carbon dioxide. Also the analysis is performed to estimate the marginal cost of carbon dioxide reduction for the fuel switching from coal to liquified natural gas. In result, the social cost could be decreased by replacing some portion of renewable energy by LNG-based combined heat and power and delaying the construction of large base-load generators such as coal and nuclear plants. The marginal carbon dioxide reduction cost by fuel switching is in plausible range for fuel switching to be an option for carbon dioxide emission reduction when the social cost is considered.

• Human Ecology Research
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• 제53권1호
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• pp.93-106
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to understand what we have learnt thus far on the sustainable consumption of natural resources by household in Korea. We propose a two-wing model designating households as the main agent of sustainable living where both the production of human resources and the consumption of natural resources take place. In the current study, we focused on the sustainability of natural resource consumption. Undertaking an empirical study, we selected 10 major journals that represent each area of human ecological research and then, identified 120 relevant studies regarding sustainability published since 2000. First, we classified 381 keywords into three categories: production, consumption, and social environment, and the identified studies were then classified in one of the seven categories created by combinations of the abovementioned three categories: production (P), consumption (C), social environment (S), production-consumption (PC), production-social environment (PS), consumption-social environment (CS), and production-consumption-social environment (PCS). The results showed that the sustainability of natural resources has been mainly investigated in the fields of clothing & textiles and food & nutrition. Further, consumer science research has been conducted in the area of consumption-social environment and consumption-production. The current study indicates that the field of human ecology has created and accumulated knowledge to support sustainable living. In the future, we need to conduct more integrated research across disciplines and methods and promote research interest in the underdeveloped area of sustainability research in human ecology.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.583-615
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• 2014

우리나라는 2011년 발생한 순환정전사태를 비롯하여 지난 5년간 급격한 전력소비 증가, 수요 예측 실패에 따른 전력 수급난을 겪고 있다. 또한 일본의 후쿠시마 원전사태와 국제 연료가격 상승, 기술 발전 및 적용 가능한 발전원 증가로 인해 발전 환경의 불확실성이 큰 폭으로 증가하였다. 이러한 대내외적 환경 변화로 인해 안정적 전력공급에 대한 정책적 검토가 필요하게 되었고 신규전원구성에 대한 다양한 논의가 이루어지게 되었다. 실제로 "민관 합동 워킹그룹" 에서는 에너지 기본계획 및 원전 비중 변화, 전원구성에 대한 시나리오 검토를 수행한 바 있다. 이러한 국내외 여건에 따라 본 연구에서는 제6차 전력수급기본계획과 정책 제안 그리고 우리나라의 전력 설비를 고려하여 포트폴리오 이론을 적용, 신규 전원구성 연구를 수행하였다. 본 연구의 전원 구성 결과에 따르면 향후 신재생 발전원의 비용하락과 화석 연료 발전원의 비용이 증가할 경우 신재생 발전원의 비중이 큰 폭으로 증가하며 발전믹스 내 발전원의 다양성이 증가 할 것이라는 결과가 도출되었다. 특히 위험수준(표준편차) 0.06~0.09 사이에서 가장 다양한 발전원을 보유한 효율적 전원구성이 나타남을 확인하였다. 이 밖에 기존 계획안은 효율적 곡선상에 위치하지 않기 때문에 비용-위험 기준에서 보다 개선될 수 있음을 확인하였으며 기존 방법론과 상호 보완적으로 본 연구의 방법론이 활용될 수 있음을 확인하였다. 마지막으로 본 연구 결과를 바탕으로 안정적이고 효율적인 전원믹스 운영을 위해서는 신재생 발전원의 확충과 더불어 전력저장시스템, 에너지관리시스템과 같은 전력 기술 개발 및 인프라 구축이 수반되어야 함을 확인하였다.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.305-330
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• 2014

그 동안 에너지 소비 변화요인을 규명하기 위한 많은 연구가 이루어져 왔다. 그런데 상당수의 연구에서 최종 에너지를 기준으로 분해분석을 수행, 에너지 소비나 이산화탄소 배출량을 집약도, 구조, 생산 효과로 나누어 분석하였다. 그러나 최종 에너지를 기준으로 할 경우 많은 전환 손실이 발생하는 전력 부문으로 인하여 정확한 소비량 변화 요인의 규명이 어려울 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 전력 소비 위주로 변화하고 있는 우리나라의 에너지 소비 구조를 보다 명확하게 반영하여 에너지 소비 변화 요인을 살펴보고자 1차 에너지 소비를 기준으로 지수분해 분석을 수행하였다. 분석 방법론으로는 Refined Laspeyres 모형과 LMDI 모형을 사용하였다. 분석 결과, 1차 에너지 소비량을 기준으로 분해분석 한 결과와 최종 에너지를 기준으로 분해분석 결과의 차이가 점차 커지는 경향을 확인하였다. 최종 에너지를 기준으로 분석 한 결과 1981년 대비 2011년 집약도 효과는 0.607배 감소, 구조 효과는 0.227배 증가 한 것으로 나타난 반면, 1차 에너지를 기준으로 분해분석 한 결과를 보면 집약도 효과가 0.236배 감소하고, 구조 효과가 0.434배 증가하는 것으로 분석되었다. 따라서 향후 분해분석 연구 수행에 있어서는 반드시 1차 에너지를 기준으로 분석을 수행해야 할 것이다.

• 한국항만경제학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항만경제학회 2006년도 국제학술대회
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• pp.1-12
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• 2006

As national economies globalize, demand for intercontinental container shipping services is growing rapidly, providing a potential economic boon for the countries and communities that provide port services. On the promise of profits, many governments are investing heavily in port infrastructure, leading to a possible glut in port capacity, driving down prices for port services and eliminating profits as ports compete for business. Further, existing ports are making strategic investments to protect their market share, increasing the chance new ports will be overcapitalized and unprofitable. Governments and port researchers need a tool for understanding how local competition in their region will affect demand for port services at their location, and thus better assess the profitability of a prospective port. We propose to develop such a tool by extending our existing simulation model of global container traffic to incorporate demand-side shipper preferences and supply-side strategic responses by incumbent ports to changes in the global port network, including building new ports, scaling up existing ports, and unexpected port closures. We will estimate shipper preferences over routes, port attributes and port services based on US and international shipping data, and redesign the simulation model to maximize the shipper's revealed preference functions rather than simply minimize costs. As demand shifts, competing ports will adjust their pricing (short term) and infrastructure (long term) to remain competitive or defend market share, a reaction we will capture with a game theoretic model of local monopoly that will predict changes in port characteristics. The model's hypotheses will be tested in a controlled laboratory experiment tailored to local port competition in Asia, which will also serve to demonstrate the subtle game theoretic concepts of imperfect competition to a policy and industry audience. We will apply the simulation model to analyze changes in global container traffic in three scenarios: addition of a new large port in the US, extended closure of an existing large port in the US, and cooperative and competitive port infrastructure development among Korean partner countries in Asia.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.139-160
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• 2018

리스크에 대한 개인의 태도와 원자력발전 수용성의 관계에 대한 기존의 연구가 다수 존재함에도 불구하고 최근 경주 지역을 중심으로 하여 빈번하게 발생하는 지진과 같은 자연재해의 경험이 원자력 수용성에 미치는 영향에 대해 분석한 국내 연구는 많지 않다. 본 연구는 2017년 3월 1,349명을 대상으로 실시된 설문조사 데이터를 기초로 하여 지진의 경험 및 정부의 보상조건(10년간 전기료 '10% 인하', '30% 인하', '50% 인하', '100% 인하')을 주요 변수로 하여 원전 유치 태도의 결정요인을 분석하였다. 프로빗 모형을 이용한 분석 결과에 따르면, 인근 원전의 존재 자체가 원전에 대한 위협감을 높이는 요인으로 작용하지는 않지만, 지진의 경험이 더해지면 원전 유치를 반대할 확률이 높아졌다. 물론, 정부의 보상 수준이 높아지면 원전 유치를 반대할 확률은 낮아진다. 그러나 10년간 전기료 무상지원이라는 보상이 주어진다고 해도 원전 유치에 찬성할 확률은 50%를 밑돈다. 특히 최근 지진이 빈번하게 발생하며 시민들의 지진 경험이 높아진다는 점을 고려할 때 원전 건설에 대한 국민의 동의를 얻어내기 위한 경제적 비용은 더욱 커질 것으로 예상된다.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.371-381
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• 1983

This study is aimed at identifying the economic effects of drainage improvement projects. The total area of poor drainage is equivalent to 170,000ha, 13% of the total area of paddy field in Korea. The development of poor drained paddy is an urgent problem considering the low rate of self-sufficiency of food grain and the limitation of farmer's income increase. Rapid development of Korean economy has brought labor shoriage in rural farming sector. Accordingly farm mechanization is an important agricultural policy to hike labor productivity and to save production costs of rice farming. The expected economic benefits of the drainage improvement project are derived from increasing land productivity, expanding double cropped area and farming the farm mechanization base in paddy fields. The economic and financial rate of return of the project are considered very important decision making criteria for project implementation by resource allocation. Therefore this study covered benefit and cost analysis of the sampled area, the estimated financial rate of returns in $Buy{\check{o}}$ and Jinsung are represented 15% and 51% respectively and the economic rate of returns in both project area are also showing 1% and 26% respectively. The rate of return of the projects has showed an outstanding variance according to the locational and natural characteristics of the project area. As showing the above economic rate of return, $Buy{\check{o}}$ is very low Jinsung is very high. But the financial rate of return of both projects are considered comparatively high. Cosequently, the drainage improvement projects should be promoted from the view point of farm income increase to make narrow the income gap between rural and urban incomes and farm mechanization to solve labor shortage in the rural area.