• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2023년도 학술발표회
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• pp.394-394
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• 2023

The world's sustainable growth is being severely hampered by the inefficient use of water resources. Despite the widely acknowledged importance of trade in global and regional water and food security, societal reliance on local production as well as international trade remains inadequately assessed. Therefore, using South Korea as a case study, this study fills in this research gap by applying the virtual water concept, the logarithmic mean divisia index (LMDI) method, and the Tapio decoupling model. The virtual water concept was used to estimate South Korea's net virtual water trade for major grain crops from 1992 to 2017. Then, the LMDI method was utilized to assess the driving factors causing changes in net virtual water trade. Lastly, the Tapio decoupling model was used to investigate the decoupling relationships between economic growth and the driving factors of net virtual water trade. Results showed that South Korea remains a net importer of virtual water flows with respect to grain crops, with an average import of 16,559.24 million m³ over the study period. In addition, the change in net virtual water trade could be attributed to water intensity effect, product structure effect, economic effect, and population effect. However, water intensity and economic effects were the major decisive factors for decrease and increase in net virtual water trade respectively, while the population and product structure effects had minor positive influences on the net virtual water trade. Furthermore, water intensity and economic growth showed a strong decoupling in most periods, while the decoupling state between product structure and economic growth was observed as expansive negative decoupling. Likewise, population size and economic growth showed a weak decoupling in most periods. The results reveal South Korea's status as it concerns the virtual water trade of grain crops, thus providing valuable insights into the sustainability of trade activities for the management of local water resources.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2020년도 학술발표회
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• pp.211-211
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• 2020

The concept of virtual water has been largely applied in the study of regional, national, and global water flows with particular emphasis on water scarcity. Despite water traditionally being managed locally, certain global forces influence the local water resource scarcity/availability and hence virtual water exchanges worldwide. It is therefore of necessity that the significant forces be examined to understand the relationship between available water in a region and the variability and trends in environmental, social, and economic factors that are of utmost importance in the formulation of water resources management policies. This study therefore reviewed recent literature from 2003 - 2019 to determine the significant indicators of virtual water trade at different spatiotemporal levels. The study examined and compared the major approaches to virtual water trade flows accounting, and also identified and discussed policy implications and future research options concerning the analysis of virtual water trade. Available information has shown that virtual water trade is significantly influenced by economic (GDP, Demand-Supply of goods and services), geographical (Distance), institutional (population) and environmental (water availability, arable land, precipitation) factors. Reports further show that the selection of a given approach for virtual water trade flows accounting will depend on the scope of the study, the available datasets, and other research preferences. Accordingly, this study suggests that the adoption of multidisciplinary approaches to virtual water trade, taking into consideration the spatial and temporal variations in water resources availability and the complexity of environmental and socioeconomic factors will be pivotal for establishing the basis for the conservation of water resources worldwide.

• 무역학회지
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.75-92
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• 2022

This study aims to analyze the International trade network of Water transport service using Social Network Analysis for defining the status of Korean Water transport industry. This study use World Input-Output Table of Asian Development Bank from 2000 to 2020 and build the International trade matrix of Water transport service from that. Therefore, this study analyze Out-degree centrality, In-degree centrality and betweenness centrality of Korea and other main countries in the matrix of World Water transport industry. As a result, Korea rank above 10th in the all centralities and the total output also rank 8th in the world, therefore, this study show the importance of Korean Water transport industry in the world. However, Singapore has the highest centrality in the world, even though China has the largest Total output among 63 countries.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2016년도 학술발표회
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• pp.190-190
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• 2016

The Water, Energy, and Food (WEF) nexus is an emerging concept for sustainable resources planning and management. The three valuable resources are inevitably interconnected, that is, it takes water to produce energy; it takes energy to extract, treat, and distribute water; and both water and energy are required to produce food. Although it is challenging to fully understand the complicated interdependency, a few studies have been devoted to interpret the concept and develop the assessment tools. The tools were mainly developed for nation-wide simulations without considering inter-basin or inter-state resources trade. This study tries to present an idea to develop and implement the WEF nexus simulation model in regional scale by advancing the existing nation-wide model with additional capability to simulate the inter-basin trade. This simulation could help local planners and engineers to determine optimal policies and infrastructure solutions to reach and ensure local demand satisfaction. The simulation model is implemented in hypothetical areas with different conditions of WEF demands and supplies. Although the inter-basin trade scenarios are simulated manually, it shows that the inter-basin resources trade could enhance the resources security for a longer time period. In future, an optimization model might be developed to provide the automatic calculation to reach optimum amount of WEF for the trade, which can be a helpful tool in decision making process.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2022년도 학술발표회
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• pp.161-161
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• 2022

Despite the impressive development of water infrastructure and management in recent decades, Korea still faces a number of threats to water security owing to such factors as climate change. This puts the country at the top spot amongst the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries in terms of water stress. It is suggested that increasing food imports and decreasing domestic food production can contribute to water and land savings and in extension, to increased water and land security. This study therefore aimed at analyzing the impact of virtual water import through food trade on the water and land savings in Korea. It was concluded that over the period 2000 - 2017, significant amounts of national water and land was saved through the importation of major upland crops. In addition, we estimated the virtual water trade (VWT) that refers to the trade of water embedded in food products. The results showed a significant increase in the amount of virtual water traded over the study period.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2018년도 학술발표회
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• pp.153-153
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• 2018

Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus is a new holistic resources management concept that considers the interconnections among resources for sustainable resources planning and management. The current challenge is to fulfill the required demand in the lack of available resources. A traditional way to provide more available resource is by increase in production, but it caused increment of indirect demand of other interlinked resources. Importing resources from other area (where local supply is redundant) is another option to secure local resources with additional economic expenditure. The WEF nexus-trading model adapts the previously developed nationwide nexus simulation model with additional input parameters and functions to simulate trading scenarios. In general, the analysis starts with the quantification of local resources deficit (potential importing amount) and redundancy (potential exporting amount) of each area. Then, a trade module is initiated by determining possible donor area and importation amount. Finally, the nexus simulation for all area is re-run to determine final resources supply-demand results including the trading amount. The trade option provides an opportunity to meet local demands without draining local resources. However, the production capability of donor area may limit the importation amount. The newly developed trade option allows more alternatives for stakeholders to determine resources management plans.

• 물과 미래
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• 제52권12호
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• pp.80-86
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• 2019

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제53권spc1호
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• pp.765-772
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• 2020

수자원 수급계획은 보통 물수지분석에서 파악된 수자원의 양에 따라 수립한다. 그러나 그것은 상품의 이동과 같은 국제교역을 고려하지 않은 폐쇄적인 수급계획이다. 물수지분석에 가상수 개념을 도입하면 상품의 수출량과 수입량을 고려한 수자원 수급계획을 수립할 수 있다. 기존에 활용하는 직접적인 물 사용(지역 내에서 가용한 각종 수자원)과 가상수를 고려한 간접적인 물 사용(지역 외에서 수입한 상품생산에 소요된 타 지역의 수자원)을 종합적으로 고려하기 때문이다. 그러나 한국에서는 아직 가상수의 개념이 국가 수자원계획 수립에 본격적으로 반영되고 않고 있다. 국내외에서 발표된 가상수 산정연구 논문에서는 가상수 산정과정이 생략되거나 일부만 제시된 사례가 많다. 따라서 가상수의 산정과정 및 거래량의 적절성을 파악하여 실무에 활용하는데 큰 어려움이 존재하고 있다. 본 연구는 한국에서 수출입하는 가상수량 산정을 위한 물발자국 적용값을 구체적으로 제시하고자 한다. 농축산물의 국제 이동량, 물발자국 적용값, 가상수 거래량을 파악하는 과정을 기술하고, 이를 기존연구와 비교하고자 한다. 따라서 본 연구에서 제시한 산정과정과 산정기준은 물발자국 및 가상수 연구를 수행하는 연구자들에게 유용한 기초자료를 제공할 것이다.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제53권9호
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• pp.691-699
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• 2020

한국은 좁은 국토에 많은 인구가 거주하여 1인당 가용 수자원량이 세계 평균에 비하여 매우 적다. 이에 따라 국민 개개인이 안정적인 생활을 영위하는데 필요한 수자원의 확보가 절실하다. 더구나 한국은 이미 선진화된 공업국가로서 농업에 대한 국가경제의 의존도가 크게 낮아졌다. 따라서 한국은 외국의 수자원을 활용하지 않으면 국민 개개인에게 현재와 같은 식생활 수준에 맞는 농축산물의 제공이 불가능하다. 그럼에도 불구하고 한국은 아직 가상수에 대한 연구가 미흡하여 수자원계획 수립에서 가상수의 국제교역을 고려하지 못하고 있다. 본 연구는 이러한 상황을 타개하기 위하여 한국을 중심으로 교류하는 가상수의 국제적인 흐름을 분석하였다. 이를 위하여 한국과 세계 248개국과의 국가별, 품목별 가상수 수출입 거래량을 파악하였다. 본 연구의 결과에 따르면, 우리나라의 농축산물 가상수의 국제교역은 수입량이 수출량보다 월등히 많고, 수입 가상수는 농산물 부산물을 수입하면서 발생하는 양이 월등히 많았다. 2018년 한국이 전 세계에서 수입한 가상수량은 722억 ㎥으로 수출한 가상수량 25억 ㎥에 비해 무려 29배나 많다. 본 연구의 결과는 향후 국내에서 수립되는 국가 수자원계획의 수립에 필요한 기초자료를 제공하게 될 것이다.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.171-181
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• 2021

Purpose: This study aims to identify effective ways to induce water resources conservation for general water consumers. Methods: In order to find the core factors to motivate water saving behavior for general consumers, this study utilized the theory of reasoned action which is well known as one of the most frequently used theory in consumer's green behavior analysis. Results: Among six hypothesized relationships in the research model four were proved to be statistically significant. The relationship between attitude toward water savings and the water saving behavior was found to be significant but only through the behavioral intention. Conclusion: Consumers with positive attitude on water conservation will practice water saving behavior with behavioral intention. However, consumers only with high knowledge on water conservation naturally and habitually practice water saving behavior without recognizing the intention to save the water. Thus, both positive attitude on the water conservation and subjective norm must be satisfied since the two factors tend to lead to actual green behavior using different psychological routes.