Central odontogenic fibroma (COF) is an uncommon slow growing benign neoplasm that is derived from the mesenchymal tissue. Differential diagnoses include fibrous dysplasia, calcifying odontogenic cyst, and central ossifying fibroma. Clinically, the lesion shows expansion of cortical bone. Radiologically, unilocular or multilocular lesion with well-defined borders is found. Histologically, fibroblastic tissues with bundle of collagens including inactive odontogenic epithelium can be observed. In this case report, a 45-year-old male with central odontogenic fibroma of the maxilla is examined. The lesion was surgically removed without any postoperative complications. In order to diagnose the disease properly, histopathologic analysis was performed.

우리나라 동남해 연안 해역에 위치한 이기대 지역에서 2010년 5월부터 2011년 2월까지 계절별로 해조상 및 군집구조에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 조사기간 동안 녹조류 9종, 갈조류 14종, 홍조류 43을 포함한 총 66종이 동정되었으며, 16종의 해조류는 조사지역에서 연중 출현하였다. 계절별 평균 현존량은 봄 123.6 g·m–2, 여름 2,061.6 g·m–2, 가을 412.0 g·m–2, 겨울 678.9 g·m–2로 나타났다. 종조성의 차이는 주변의 오염원이 존재하지 않는 정점 3과 4에 비하여 주변 하천의 영향을 받는 정점 1로 갈수록 종조성이 상대적으로 낮은 경향을 보였는데 이는 주변의 용호천, 대연천, 남부하수처리장 방류수에 의한 영향으로 판단되었다. 해조군집의 생태적 특성을 판단할 수 있는 R/P, C/P, (R+C)/P 값은 각각 3.07, 0.64, 3.71로 나타났으며, 해조류의 외부형태와 내부구조 등에 따라 구분되는 6가지 기능형군에 따른 분류결과는 성긴분기형 39.39 %, 엽상형 30.30 %, 다육질형 13.64 %, 사상형 12.12 %, 각상형 3.03 %, 유절산호말형 1.52 %으로 나타났다. 한편, 이기대 지역의 해조류 개체수는 1996년부터 1997년에 96종, 2010년부터 2011년에 66종으로 감소된 것을 확인하였다. 이는 주변하천과 하수처리장의 방류수 등에 의한 영향으로 판단된다. 결론적으로 대도시 인근 연안의 해조군락 보호 및 육성을 위하여 연안역에 유입되는 오하수의 처리 및 해조장 복원과 같은 적극적인 해양환경 유지관리방법이 체계적으로 추진되어야 할 것이다.

연안생태계의 영양상태와 환경적 질을 평가하기 위하여, 2007년 2월 남해연안의 총 25개 소해역, 131개 정점을 대상으로 표층 퇴적물의 입도조성, 광합성 색소, 총유기탄소, 총질소, 생화학적 조성(단백질, 탄수화물, 지질) 등을 분석하였다. 다차원 분석 결과 4개의 그룹으로 나뉘었으며, 일원분산분석에서 단백질, 탄수화물, biopolymeric carbon 농도의 차이가 뚜렷하게 나타났다. 이를 토대로 퇴적물 내 생화학적 조성을 이용한 영양상태 기준을 설정하였으며, 조사해역의 영양상태를 평가한 결과 산업폐수 및 생활하수 유입이 많은 마산만, 진해만, 행암만을 포함한 I그룹을 과영양 상태, 양식시설이 밀집한 통영, 고성 자란, 거제연안 등의 II그룹은 부영양 상태로 추정되었으며, 가막만, 득량만, 여자만 등의 III그룹은 중영양 상태로, 나머지 신안, 진도, 무안을 포함한 IV그룹은 빈영양 상태로 추정되었다. 본 연구결과로 퇴적물의 생화학적 조성을 이용한 영양상태 구분은 연안역의 영양도 평가를 위하여 유용한 방법으로 사용되어 질 수 있다고 판단된다.

한반도 연안에 서식하는 고래의 조직 내 미량금속 농도 잔류특성을 알아보기 위하여 2009년 동해안에서 혼획된 밍크고래의 간, 창자, 근육, 표피, 지방 내 미량금속(Cu, Cd, Pb, As, Zn, Hg) 농도를 측정하였다. 조직 내 Cu, Cd, Zn, Hg은 간에서 가장 높고 지방에서 가장 낮았다. 이와 대조적으로 As는 지방에서 가장 높은 농도를 보였으며, 근육에서 가장 낮은 농도를 나타내었다. 전반적으로 밍크고래의 조직 내 미량금속은 Zn > Cu > As > Pb > Hg > Cd의 순으로 높은 농도를 나타내었다. 성별에 따른 미량금속은 수컷은 간과 표피에 Cu, As, Zn을, 암컷은 창자와 근육에 Cu와 Pb을 더 효율적으로 축적하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 성숙도에 있어서는 간의 경우 Cd, 근육은 Hg, 표피와 지방은 As와 Hg, 창자는 Cd, As, Hg이 성숙한 개체에서 미성숙한 개체보다 상당히 높은 농도를 보였다.

전 세계적으로 연안양식산업의 중요성은 날로 증대되고 있지만, 반폐쇄성 내만의 연안환경은 양식의 장기화 및 과밀식에 의하여 연안 오염이 가중되고 있다. 지속적인 연안양식을 위하여, 해양생태계에 부하를 주지 않는 생태학적 수용능력 산정을 통한 친환경적 어장관리의 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 생태학적 수용능력 산정 모델링의 경우, 전체 생태계와 모든 양식활동을 고려해야 하기 때문에, 그 개발 및 적용에 있어 아직 초기단계에 있다. 대안으로, 양식장의 생태학적 능률을 산정하는 생태지표에 대한 요구가 있다. 본 연구는 대상해역의 기초생산력과 굴 양식장의 섭취율을 고려한 여과압 지표를 사용하여 생태학적 수용능력 산정을 시도하였다. 2008년, 거제한산만에 시설되어있는 굴 양식장의 여과압 지표값은 0.203으로 나타났으며, 생산량은 4,935M/T로서 49개체/m3로 시설되어 있다. 거제한산만의 현재 시설된 굴 양식장과 환경적 특성에 따라, 해양생태계에 부하를 주지 않는 생태학적 수용능력에 관해 새로이 산정된 여과압 지표는 0.102였다. 결과적으로, 거제한산만의 굴 양식장의 생태학적 수용능력은 현 생산량에서 49.8% 저감된 2,480M/T, 25개체/m3였고, 이는 생태학적 과정, 종, 군집에 현저한 변화를 주지 않고서 거제한산만에 도입될 수 있는 양식장의 수용능력을 나타낸다. 본 연구는 굴 양식장의 지속적인 생산을 위하여 생태학적 수용능력을 산정할 수 있는 생태지표를 활용하였으며, 이는 친환경적 어장관리의 과학적 근거로 활용될 수 있다.

지금까지 연안 양식장의 지속적인 생산 및 체계적인 관리를 위해 어장환경용량 산정 및 활용에 관하여 많은 연구가 선행되어 왔다. 그러나, 생태학적 부하를 고려한 지속적 적정 생산을 위해서는 4가지 계층구조(물리적 수용능력, 생산 수용능력, 생태학적 수용능력 및 사회적 수용능력)에 의한 어장환경용량 산정 개념을 활용할 수 있다. 생태학적 수용 능력 산정의 경우, 환경과 패류 양식의 상호작용에 관한 좀 더 전체적인 접근이 필요하여 아직까지 모델 개발은 초기 단계에 있으므로, 이에 대한 대안접근으로 패류양식장이 해양생태계의 가능을 어떻게 변화시킬 수 있는지 패류양식장의 생태적 효율을 평가할 수 있는 생태지표의 필요성이 대두되었다. 현재 거제한산만 굴양식장의 정화율 생태지표는 0.331, 여과압 생태지표는 0.203으로 계산되었으며, 이는 연안 생태계에 부하를 주지 않는 생태학적 수용 능력인 0.05를 초과하고 있음을 나타내었다. 본 연구에서는 생태학적 수용 능력의 개념에 근거한 생태지표를 거제한산만에 적용하여, 현재의 굴 양식장의 개발 수준이 어느 정도인지를 평가하여 지속적인 생산과 효과적인 양식어장 관리 지침으로 활용하는 방안을 마련하고자 하였다.

굴 양식 산업은 우리나라의 대표적인 양식수산업으로서 중요한 역할을 수행하여 왔지만, 최근에는 수출 감소, 국내 내수시장 소비의 한계, 양식 환경 악화와 같은 여러 문제에 직면하여 있다. 적정하고 지속적인 굴 생산은 어장환경의 공간정보를 기반으로 하는 적지 선정을 통하여 달성 가능하고, 양식장의 적지 선정은 양식장의 성공적 개발에 중요한 열쇠이며, 지속가능한 개발에 절대적 영향을 미친다. 이 연구는 GIS 기반의 다중 평가 방법을 이용하여 수하식 굴 양식장의 적지를 규명하고자 하였다. 대부분의 인자들은 GIS에서 보간법에 의해 추출되었고, 여덟 개의 환경 인자들이 두 가지 기본 서브모델로 그룹화 되었다. 이는 굴 성장에 관련된 인자(수온, 염분, 해수유동, 클로로필 a)와 양식장 주변 환경에 관련된 인자(저층 DO, 총유기탄소, 퇴적물 산휘발성 황화물, 저서군집 다양도) 등으로 구성되어 있다. 적합 점수는 가장 적지인 8점에서부터 가장 적합하지 못한 1 점까지의 규모로 가점되었으며, 총 80.1%의 잠재 지역이 가장 높은 점수 5점과 6점으로 채점되었다. 이 지역들이 거제한산만에서 굴 양식을 위한 가장 최적의 조건을 가지는 것으로 나타났으며, 이러한 GIS 기반의 적지 선정 기법은 공간적인 의사 결정을 지원함으로서 어장관리시스템으로 활용될 수 있다.

The six kinds of natural factors(It refers to wind, cold, summer-heat, dampness, dryness and fire.) is constantly moving to maintain the balance of whole climate of one year. Four seasons are the largest mediation of whole climate of one year. The cold and the heat have the relationship of mutual intervention. The dampness and the dryness have it also. In this process they raise various climate appearance. And that various climate appearance influence the whole lives on the earth. This paper is concerned with the classification of them.

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is an important policy implemented before starting development projects to estimate and reduce environmental impact. However, the difficulty of quantification on several rating categories has hampered comprehensive analysis. Instead of it, the current EIA just summarizes outcome of investigation. Therefore, EIA fails to definitively ascertain whether the development shold be approved or not. This study aimed at providing the way to comprehensive decision-making by applying Emergy analysis and Emergy indicators to EIA. Production (P), Emergy Yield Ratio (EYR), Environmental Loading Ratio (ELR) and Emergy Sustainability Index (ESI) were selected for indicators. The indicators of range approving the development were set up with comparing before and after development or according to circumstances of which view of average that was classified as region or industry is appropriate to analysis. As a result, the value after development of P should be higher than the value before development. EYR and ESI of the value before development should be higher than region or industry average. On the contrary to these, ELR of the value after development should be lower than region or industry average. To verify applying Emergy indicators to EIA comprehensive analysis, Emergy evaluation was conducted to real case. As a result, applying Emergy analysis could suggest whether the development is appropriate or not. These indices and the result of this research are expected to be applied decision-making on environmental impact for sustainable development.

The gross domestic product(GDP) measures the welfare of a nation’s economy through the aggregation of products and services produced in a nation. Although GDP is a proficient measure of the magnitude of the economy, many economists, environmentalists, and citizens have recently criticized the gross domestic product. The criticism stems from the fact that this measurement of domestic product does not account for environmental degradation and resource depletion. We need to estimate the environmentally adjusted net domestic product. The gross domestic product was 913 trillion won while environmental protection expenditure was 32.9 trillion won by monetary accounts of Korea, 2010. Loss of natural assets was 76.6 trillion emwon by emergy analysis of Korea, 2010. The Green GDP was accounted for 88.0% of the GDP to 803.5 trillion won.

We investigated the spatiotemporal variations of dissolved inorganic nutrients along a saline gradient to estimate nutrient fluxes in the Seomjin River estuary during dry (March 2005, March 2006, March 2007, and March 2008) and rainy seasons (August 2005, July 2006, July 2007, and July 2008). Dissolved inorganic nitrogen concentrations were similar in the endmembers of freshwater for the rainy and dry seasons. In contrast, the concentrations of dissolved inorganic phosphate and silicate in the rainy season were approximately 2-3 times higher than those in the dry season. River discharge was approximately 10 times higher in the rainy season (212 m3 sec-1) than in the dry season (21 m3 sec-1). The fluxes of dissolved inorganic nitrogen, phosphate, and silicate were 2.91, 0.004, and 2.51 tons day-1 in the dry season and 7.45, 0.421, and 30.5 tons day-1 in the rainy season, respectively. Although the range of nutrient concentrations were similar to previous results from investigations in the Seomjin River estuary, the nutrient fluxes were differed according to river discharge for different survey periods.

The Nakdong River being used as drinking water sources for the Busan metropolitan city has the vulnerability of water management due to the fact that industrial areas are located in the upper Nakdong River. This study used emergy analysis method to evaluate ecological-economics of water treatment systems of D water treatment plant (WTP) where located in the downstream of the Nakdong River. The emergy methodology is a system evaluation tool that uses energy as the common currency to compare different resources on a common basis. Emergy yield ratio (EYR) and emergy sustainability index (EmSI) of D WTP were 1.16 and 0.18, respectively. It means not resources and sustainable system but consumer goods and not sustainable system. Ratio of emergy benefit to the purchaser (EBP) shows 2.7 times higher than economic costs. To change the weak water source and situations we need to diversity water intake.

This research was performed to simulate shellfish production systems and sales in Gamak Bay, South Korea. To study the way the shellfish system generates maxima, a numerical model was developed to simulate the model under a control and a number of different scenarios. The program calculates the EMERGY flows by multiplying the flows of energy and materials by the appropriate solar transformity. In this study, an energy systems model was built to simulate the variation of sustainability for oyster aquaculture. The results of the simulation based on 2005 data that as oyster production yield slightly increases, money and assets increase to a steady state. When the program is run control simulation, the system reaches carrying capacity after 8 years. The simulation of models with price of purchased inputs increased with 3.5% inflation rate per year showed maximum benefit of shellfish production occurs after 6 years but amounts are less than control simulation, and then decreases slightly in money and yield results. The results with 3.5% inflation and increase of oyster price annually showed steady and slightly increase of money and yield.

The objective of this research is to apply more scientific, quantitative methods and procedures of environmental investigation to the development of the natural environment and the improvement of the human environment during the establishment of a sewage treatment plant and special facilities using environmental accounting. This research was performed to develop a method of strategic environmental assessment on the operation of sewage treatment plant and reuse of shellfish seeding areas through the use of environmental accounting based on EMERGY evaluation. The result was applied to marine environment policy in order to evaluate the real wealth of the regional environment and economy for both the present phase and the proposed developed phase. Using results from the comparison of EMERGY indices between the present situation and future scenarios, cost benefit analysis was performed for three different scenarios: (1) construction of a new sewage treatment plant, (2) relocation and recovery of the shellfish seeding area , and (3) relocation and re-seeding of shellfish area and construction of a new sewage treatment plant. Cost-benefit ratios of the three scenarios are 1.88, 0.94, and 1.38, respectively.

This research outlines a new method for evaluation of shellfish production in Gamak Bay based on the concept of EMERGY. Better understanding of those environmental factors influencing oyster production and the management of oyster stocks requires the ability to assess the real value of environmental sources such as solar energy, river, tide, wave, wind, and other physical mechanisms. In this research, EMERGY flows from environment sources were 76% for shellfish aquaculture in Gamak Bay. EMERGY yield ratio, Environmental Loading Ratio, and Sustainability Index were 4.26, 0.31 and 13.89, respectively. Using the Emergy evaluation data, the predicted maximum shellfish aquaculture production in Gamak Bay and the FDA (Food and Drug Administration, U.S.) designated area in Gamak Bay were 10,845 ton/y and 7,548 ton/yr, respectively. Since the predicted shellfish production was approximately 1.3 times more than produced shellfish production in 2005, the carrying capacity of Gamak Bay is estimated to be 1.3 times more than the present oyster production.

As forest land takes up 65% of the Korean peninsula, there have been continuing conflicts between the development and conservation of forest land. As the income level has changed over time, the usage of forest land in society has changed. There has been increasing demands for forest land for urban development and recreational use. On the other hand, a large proportion of the land is required to be preserved for the forest and the natural ecosystem in it. The existing management system for the forest land has been designed focusing on the management of the trees on the land, and not the land itself. Due to this limitation, the current management system of forest land has failed to protect the forest land from being developed indiscreetly, making it difficult to conserve and develop the forest land in an efficient way. A major question in forest land management is how to integrate economic use activities with the supporting ecosystems to maximize performance of the ecological-economic system. In order to promote sustainable use of forest resources, and to achieve efficient forest land management, it is prerequisite to evaluation on forest resources of natural ecosystems. Quantitative measures are needed that signify how necessary the services and products of forested ecosystems are to human endeavors. In this study, the natural wealth provided by forest land was quantified based on emergy synthesis. Emergy is a universal measure of real wealth of the work of nature and society made on a common basis. Thus, Calculations of emergy provide a basis for making choices about environment and economy following the general public policy to maximize real wealth. The goals of forest land management to achieve balance between the ecology and economy of its integrated system and to foster equity among the diverse outcomes of the forest land were assessed with emergy. Emergy was demonstrated to holistically integrated and quantify the interconnections of a coupled nature-human system allowing the goals of ecological balance and outcome equity to be measured quantitatively. Doing so will provide a better understanding of the basis of forest land wealth and the consequences of management decisions.

Aquatic and riparian vegetation of river ecosystems are very important both in ecological and management perspectives. Vegetation surveys were conducted to understand the characteristics of riparian vegetation in the mid and lower reaches of the Nakdong River, Korea. A total of 68 families and 260 species were identified at eleven survey sites. The numbers of taxa were similar to those reported in a previous survey in 1996,but the percentage of naturalized plants increased more than two times compared to that in the previous survey. Survey sites near Yangsan Bridge and Nambu Park in Yangsan showed the highest percentage of naturalized plant species. Urbanization indices of the survey sites were high at 18.8% on average. Therophytes were the most dominant plant life form at the survey sites with 39.2% of total plants identified, followed by phanerophytes (19.2%), hemicryptophytes (18.9%), aquatic plants (13.9%), cryptophytes (5.8%), and chamaephytes (3.1%). The relative composition of hemicryptophytes decreased whereas those of therophytes and chamaephytes increased compared to those in the survey in 1996. This may be due to increase in dryness of riparian soils or degradation of riparian areas. Plant compositions at sites near Jeokpo Bridge and Hwoicheon suggest that the composition and distribution of riparian vegetation are affected by land use pattern surrounding riparian areas or human accessibility to the areas.

The emergy concept was used to valuate the contributions of a tidal flat ecosystem included in the fourth stage reclamation plan for the Youngsan River area to the Korean economy. Emergy contributions of the ecosystem were compared with those of economic valuations performed on the same ecosystem. The tidal flat ecosystem contributed 3.55 million Em\/ha annually. This, however, cannot be compared directly with those of the economic valuations because both methodologies approach the valuation of ecosystems in different perspectives. The emergy methodology is a donor-based valuation in which what goes into making a product or service is measured, while the economic valuation is a receiver-based approach in which human receivers determine the value of an ecosystem product or service. An emergy valuation was conducted for the three ecosystem functions included in the economic valuations to compare the results of both methodologies on the same basis. Fishery production and pollutants removal contributed 9.86 million Em\/ha/yr and 0.88 million Em\/ha/yr, respective1y. The conservation value of the tidal flat ecosystem was 3.55 million Em\/ha/yr. Overall, the emergy valuation that try to include works of both human and nature on the same basis resulted in higher economic contribution of the tidal flat ecosystem than that calculated by the economic methodologies in which only human works are measured based on the willingness-to-pay of people. This study showed that the emergy concept could provide an alternative tool for policy decision-making regarding utilization and conservation of ecosystems by approaching the ecosystem valuation from a different perspective than that of economic methodologies.

The cost of the construction and management of new apartment buildings was evaluated using a monetary analysis and an emergy concept to provide a new perspective regarding the housing policy of Korea. The systems of analyses were typical apartment buildings with an area of 76.03㎡ per household in Korea built on the same size of land area. Three apartment buildings with different stories were evaluated and compared; 5-story, 15-story, and 20-story apartment buildings. The durable years of those apartments were assumed to be 40 years. The total cost of the construction and management of an apartment building was divided into three categories of construction, land purchase, and management. A 20-story apartment showed the highest cost and a 15-story apartment the lowest in the monetary cost analysis. In contrast, the emergy evaluation revealed a different pattern in the cost of construction and management, the cost increasing from a 5-story apartment to a 20-story one. This means that the higher the apartment constructed, the greater the cost in terms of real wealth. This result suggests that new evaluation methodologies like the emergy analysis should be used together with the monetary analysis to provide better insights on the national housing policy.