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The Value, Knowledge, and Sustainable Consumption Behavior of Fashion Consumers (패션 소비자의 가치, 지식 및 지속가능한 소비행동에 관한 연구)

  • Suk, HyoJung;Lee, Eun-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.37 no.3
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    • pp.424-438
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    • 2013
  • This study examines the value, knowledge and sustainable consumption behavior of fashion consumers. The study shows that universalism/harmony, security/benevolence, power, and tradition/faith have positive effects on buying/usage behavior; however, hedonism/wealth has a negative effect. Stimulation/self-direction and universalism/harmony positively influence boycott behavior; however, power has a negative influence. Universalism/harmony and politeness have positive impacts on care/disposing behavior. Consumer knowledge about fashion related environmental problems, labor practices, ethical issues and sustainable environment knowledge influence sustainable buying/usage behavior; in addition, knowledge about ethical issues and sustainable environmental problems positively influence boycott and care/disposing behavior. Moreover, there were significant differences in values, knowledge, and consumption behavior by age.

A Study of The Modern Furniture's Material and Sustainable (현대 가구에서 나타나는 재료의 지속가능성에 대한 연구)

  • Baik, Eun;Suh, Myoung Won
    • Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.80-90
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    • 2016
  • The idea of Sustainable, first mentioned in "Our Future (Bruntdland)" from the United Nations report released in 1987 has been highly affect design disciplines in developed countries in 21st century. It relocated industrial society and structure's attentions to nature and recourse conservation and reuse. Designed and manufactured products eventually disposed and it leads to waste of resources as well as creates environmental issues. Unfortunately, vast majority of designers starts designing without anticipation of this matter and produce more believing this leads to more sales. However shorter life of a product will create bigger increase of resource consumption and waste than, importance of re-usage and recycle will eventually increase. In modern furniture industry metal and plastics are frequently used beside wood that material has been diverse than in past. However, there are lack of plans and regulations of re-usage of those material due to difficulties of separating each different materials and collecting due to it's size. This study would like to look into recycling rate, methods and usage of three major materials (wood, metal, plastic) that is typically used in current furniture industries. Furthermore, see the potential of sustainable furniture by analyzing furniture practices made by each different recycled material from old furniture and what designers should consider to achieve feasibility of sustainable furniture.

A Study of Sustainable Architectural Design Elements Based on the Classification of Natural Elements (자연요소 중심으로 분류한 친환경 건축계획 요소에 관한 연구)

  • Yim, Su Hyun;Park, Hyeon Soo
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.3-12
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    • 2010
  • Sustainable design is getting to be controversial issue in all industries over the world particularly, in architecture as the amount of energy usage in architecture occupies 40%. Therefore, it is essential to make the standard for the sustainable design. In order to construct the sustainable design, firstly it should be considered that sustainable design elements based on natural resources to increase building energy efficiency is established and classified. The method of sustainable design divides into passive design and active design. Passive design method should be examined with active one simultaneously for more efficient usage of energy. Next, the study is followed how the sustainable design elements is adopted in buildings through the comparison of cases study of domestic and oversea. The result of case study shows similar adoption of sustainable design elements between oversea and domestic. However, the difference is shown in the building orientation and shape and the window size and position in Solar energy as well as high performance structure in Heat energy. These elements are the most significant elements in order to reduce energy load. In oversea, sustainable design is generated by architects, a client, and consultants based on the close cooperation in the beginning of early design phase before deciding building shape and envelope while in the domestic field adoption for sustainable design is conducted after deciding building shape and material. In order to design sustainable architecture more study is necessary in early stage for Zero Carbon and reducing building energy load through relation with specialists, a client and architects.

Analyzing Optimal Economic Fishing Efforts of the Coastal Snow Crab Gillnet Fishery (대게 연안자망어업의 경제적 적정 어구사용량 분석)

  • Kim, Do-Hoon;An, Heui-Chun;Lee, Kyoung-Hoon
    • The Journal of Fisheries Business Administration
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.25-39
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    • 2008
  • The Korean government is in the establishment process of plan for managing fishing effort by setting up the maximum fishing gear usage per fishery type for the recovery of fishery resources, for the settlement of disputes between fishery sectors over fishing gears, and for the stability of fishing business condition. Especially in the setting up of the maximum fishing gear usage, economic standards as well as biological standards are being considered as a significant factor to promote the sustainable and economically viable development of fisheries. This study is, thus, to analyze the optimal economic fishing gear usage ($E_{MEY}$) as the most economically efficient one for the coastal snow crab gillnet fishery, one of the most controversial sectors in establishing the maximum fishing gear usage. The data of logbooks per trip were used for concentrating on the estimation of $E_{MEY}$ per trip because it was considered there were limitations of data available for analyses. As a finding drawn from the analyses, the optimal economic trap usage ($E_{MEY}$) of coastal snow crab gillnet vessels per trip has to be decreased by about 13%. That is, reducing the trip gillnet usage up to the level of $E_{MEY}$ can lead to the reduction of trip fishing costs, thereby resulting in the increased trip profits.

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A Study on the Effect of e-Lifestyle on the Use Factors and Satisfaction of Self-Service Kiosk (비대면셀프서비스 이용자의 e-라이프스타일이 키오스크 사용요인과 만족요인에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Eun Mi Lee
    • Korea Trade Review
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    • v.45 no.2
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    • pp.121-135
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    • 2020
  • This study was to identify the effects of four types of e-Lifestyle(life-friendly lifestyle, development-oriented lifestyle, sociality-oriented lifestyle, information-oriented lifestyle) on sustainable behavior (usage and satisfaction) of Kiosk service. The study was based on convenience sampling of 222 consumers, who have at least three months experience of kiosk system use. Results showed that all of the four types of e-Lifestyle had not significant effect on ease of use. However, development-oriented lifestyle and sociality-oriented lifestyle had a positive effects on usefulness of Kiosk service. Results also indicated that e-Lifestyle had significant and positive effects on customer satisfaction and recommendation. In particular, life-friendly lifestyle had an effect on customer satisfaction, and sociality-oriented lifestyle and information-oriented lifestyle had statistically significant effects on recommendation. Since e-lifestyle could potentially influence sustainable behavior for using Kiosk, this study investigated the distribution of usage and consumer satisfaction for every lifestyle type, so as to understand the attitudinal and behavioral evaluation as sustainable behavior in the use of kiosk services. These findings allow researchers and marketers to identify the needs and expectations of specific types of kiosk users.

An Empirical Study on the Influential Factors to User's Continuos Usage and Recommendation of SmartPhone-Games (구조방정식을 이용한 스마트폰 게임의 지속적 사용의도와 추천에 미치는 영향에 관한 실증적 연구)

  • Kwon, Hyeog-In;Kim, Ho-Il;Choi, Yong-Seok
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.115-125
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    • 2011
  • Recently, a sharp increases of users of smartphone is not only cause an rapid growth smartphone-games market, but also secured it's position as a high value market. thus have to begets a multilateral study to the smartphone of newly-rising. however the earlier studies were researched previous smartphone, despite extended research is needed for smartphone-games. therefore the study's purpose is to draw a main factors it has a decisive effect for recommendation and sustainable-usage through recognizing the cause-and-effect relationship with purchase intention, purchase action, satisfaction, recommendation, and sustainable usage that based purchase-effect-factors of smartphone-games. for this study the questionnaire of 293 was taken. and structural equation model was adopted to analyze this study.

Sustainable Buildings - or Sustainable Cities?

  • Schwettmann, Mark
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.103-107
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    • 2015
  • China's rapidly growing cities offer a unique opportunity to create highly sustainable communities. Architects and their clients, typically real estate developers, are highly focused on strategies that are effective at reducing energy and water usage at the scale of the individual building or within a master plan of multiple related buildings. However, a closer look at energy consumption reveals that transportation uses more energy worldwide than residential and commercial buildings combined. In light of this, it is appropriate that China is making massive investments in transportation infrastructure like heavy rail rapid transit and grade separated expressways, but the end result of these investments to date has been to enable people to live further from where they work and shop rather than closer - while simultaneously not creating walkable communities. Using positive and negative examples from Asia and the rest of the world, this article will investigate the specific urban design policies such as height limits, setbacks, land use restrictions, parking ratios, and parcel size which might change to enable the creation of truly sustainable communities for China's 21st century.

A Study on the Factors Affecting Continuous Intention and Expansion of Communication Channels in Social Network Service (소셜네트워크서비스에서 지속사용의도 및 관계채널확장에 영향을 미치는 요인에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Seon-Hwa;Gim, Gwang-Yong
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.319-337
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    • 2012
  • To stress the importance of privacy in social networking, I presented an analysis on how information control and information management vulnerability influence trust and privacy concerns in social networking, and how trust and privacy concerns influence the sustainable usage intention of social network services. I also analyzed the factors affecting privacy concerns to present the method to alleviate social network users' concerns about privacy. Information collection control, information processing control and information management vulnerability were chosen and analyzed as the factors affecting privacy concerns. The results showed that information collection control and information management vulnerability significantly affected trust and privacy concerns; and information processing control did not significantly affect privacy concerns. The relationship between trust and privacy concerns, and sustainable usage intention was statistically significant; and the relationship between trust and expansion of communication channels was also statistically significant.

Sustainable Luxury Fashion Consumption and the Moderating Role of Guilt

  • Ki, Chungwha;Kim, Youn-Kyung
    • Fashion, Industry and Education
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.18-30
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    • 2016
  • This study explores whether consumers' sustainable luxury purchase (SLP), which refers to luxury consumers' conscientious purchase behavior of "buying luxury for its timeless style and durable quality that leads to extended product usage and less waste," leads to luxury consumer pleasure (LCP). Furthermore, the current study examines whether LCP leads to positive post-purchase behavior reflected by sustainable divestment intention (SDI) and repurchase intention (RI). In addition, by building on Coping Theory, we explore whether luxury consumer guilt (LCG) positively moderates the relationship between LCP and SDI. Our empirical findings of the SEM analysis based on 452 valid responses demonstrate the significant relationships between SLP and LCP, between LCP and SDI, and between LCP and RI. This implies the importance of SLP in creating a favorable consumer response, which further leads to consumers' intentions to make a sustainable divestment and to repurchase luxury. Furthermore, the critical moderating role LCG plays in the relationship between LCP and SDI was supported, stressing the importance of guilt as a trigger of consumers' sustainable divestment behavior.

A Study on the Sustainable Features of Realized and Planned Floating Buildings

  • Moon, Chang-Ho
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.113-121
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    • 2012
  • According to the climate change and the improvement of income level, floating building on water has been emerging as a strong alternative. This study was intended to suggest some reference materials of sustainability for new floating building projects. The concept of sustainability and floating building was investigated, and 3 realized projects and 3 planned projects were reviewed in terms of sustainability. Sustainable features of the sample projects can be summarized as recycled and relocatable usage, adoption of various renewable energy techniques, installation of self-supporting plant, application of modular system and others like new material & open layout. Sustainable features need to be developed more and more in detail and applied to many types of floating buildings.