• Journal of Environmental Policy
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.31-54
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• 2004

This paper aims at analyzing the issues on how to improve UNEP's roles in international environmental governance context. Although UNEP has been presumed to play a leading role in addressing global environment problems, several problems (such as collective action problem, fragmentation, lack of authority and insufficient legitimacy) in its governance have led to losing its leadership to other entities such as the World Bank, OECD and CSD. While a position of changing UNEP's status to an independent international organization has not been developed enough, several efforts, which might not be sufficient to respond to the changing environment of international environmental governance, have been made to strengthen UNEP's roles in the short run. These include universal membership, strengthening the financing of UNEP, and issues concerning MEAs. Whether current efforts for enhancing UNEP's roles in international environmental governance will be successful or not, would rely on to what extent interested parties hold political wills for its reforms and how to draw a compromise on critical issues among those parties.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.154-154
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• 2022

The frequency of natural disasters, including floods and drought events, driven by climate change has increased in recent times. Investigating the climate regimes and the roles of climate variables are indispensable to forestall future climate change-related disasters. This study compares the variability of two popular and widely used climate indices i.e., the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) aridity index and the Modified De-Martonne (MDM) index to assess the trend of climate change in the Chungcheong provinces of South Korea. The trend of annual and monthly climate indices was conducted using a non-parametric Mann-Kendall test and Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test with daily climate data of 48 years (1978-2020) from 10 synoptic stations. The findings indicate that UNEP and MDM indices had a wet climate regime for the annual trend, with the UNEP index indicating a relatively humid trend of 60% humid, 20% semi-arid, and 10% sub-humid for the 48-years study period. However, the MDM index showed a high frequency of a severe wet climatic condition followed by the semi-arid condition. The months of July and August had the highest occurring frequency of the wet climatic condition (90%) for both UNEP and MDM indices. Comparing the two provinces, Chungnam showed a relatively wetter climatic condition using the UNEP index, while the MDM index indicated no significant regional difference in climate regime between the two provinces. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test showed that all the 10 stations are normally distributed for monthly climate conditions at a 5% significant level in the two provinces except five stations for UNEP index and four stations for MDM index in the month of January.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.54 no.11
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• pp.999-1009
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• 2021

As the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events due to climate change are increasing in recent years, it is very important to evaluate and analyze climate conditions to manage and respond to the negative effects of climate change in advance. In this study, the trends and characteristics of regional climate change were analyzed by calculating the climate indices for the Chungcheong Province. Annual and monthly UNEP-MP, UNEP-PM and MDM indices were calculated using daily data from 1973-2020 collected from 10 synoptic meteorological stations operated by the Korea Meteorological Administration. The normality of climate data was analyzed through the KS test, and the climate change trend was analyzed by applying the Spearman and Pearson methods. The Chungcheongnam-do region had a relatively humid climate than the Chungcheongbuk-do region, and the annual climate indices showed a dry climate trend in Cheongju and Chungju, while the climate of Seosan and Buyeo was becoming humid. Based on the monthly trend change analysis, a humid climate trend was observed in summer and autumn, while a dry climate trend was observed in spring and winter. Comparison of climate indices during the past (2001-2010) and the recent (2011-2020) years showed a higher decrease in the average climate indices during the last 10 years and a gradually drying climate change trend was recorded.

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.319-320
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• 2001

Passive sampler는 현장에서 제약 없이 사용할 수 있다는 간편성과 그 측정결과의 정확성, 정밀성에 대하여 입증된 바 있는 측정도구로써 대기질 측정 및 모니터링뿐만 아니라 최근에는 대기확산모델의 검증자료로도 활용되고 있다(김선태, 2001). 이러한 측정방법은 국내의 경우 1992년 이후 한정적으로 사용되었으나, 최근에는 국내뿐 아니라 해외에서도 passive sampler를 사용하는 사례가 증가하고 있으며, UNEP에서도 다양한 목적으로의 활용성을 언급하고 있다(UNEP, 1994). (중략)

• Bulletin of Korea Environmental Preservation Association
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.14-15
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• 1989

• Bulletin of Korea Environmental Preservation Association
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• v.9 no.16
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• pp.10-16
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• 1987

• Bulletin of Korea Environmental Preservation Association
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• v.6 no.22
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• pp.33-37
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• 1984

• Bulletin of Korea Environmental Preservation Association
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.4-4
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• 1990

• Environmental engineer
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• s.324
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• pp.72-73
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• 2013

• Bulletin of Korea Environmental Preservation Association
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• v.12 no.16
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• pp.35-36
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• 1990