본 연구의 목적은 고등학교 화학과 지속가능발전교육 프로그램을 개발하는 것이다. 화학과 교육과정과 ESD 선행 연구를 분석하여 내용요소를 추출하였다. 그리고 프로그램에 대한 아이디어를 발상하고, 교과서를 분석하여 프로그램에 대한 아이디어를 구체화하였다. 그 다음 화학과 ESD의 연계 가능성을 평가하여 ‘오리엔테이션’, ‘안전’, ‘물’, ‘에너지’, ‘건강’ 총 5가지 주제의 프로그램의 주제를 선정하였다. 그 후에 교과서를 분석하여 교수-학습과정안의 형태로 프로그램을 구성하였다. 마지막으로 전문가의 교차검토를 통하여 타당성을 검증한 후 프로그램을 수정 및 보완하였다. 이 프로그램은 교육 현장에서 많이 활용할 수 있도록 차시를 보완할 수 있는 형태로 구조화하였다. 이 프로그램을 통하여 학생들로 하여금 화학이 지속가능발전에 이바지할 수 있는 과목이라는 인식을 갖고, 나아가 자신이 이러한 분야에서 활약할 수 있다는 의지를 가지는 데에 도움을 줄 것이다. 또한 화학을 배우는 학생들이 화학-환경-경제-사회의 상호관계를 폭넓게 이해할 수 있도록 도와줄 수 있다.

1992년 리우 환경개발회의에서 채택된 Agenda 21에서 방사성폐기물의 안전관리를 위한 정책방향이 결정된 후, 국제연합은 방사성폐기물 안전관리를 지속 가능한 발전의 범위에 포함하여 국제원자력기구의 주관 하에 관련 지표의 개발 및 적용을 추진하고 있다. 2002년 국제원자력기구는 방사성폐기물관리에 관한 지속가능 발전지표를 확정하고 현재 운영중인 방사성폐기물 데이터베이스 시스템인 NEWMDB와 연계하여 회원국의 방사성폐기물관리 체계 및 현황을 정량적인 지표로 평가할 예정이다. 본 논문에서는 방사성폐기물에 관한 지속가능 발전지표의 도입근거와 적용상의 한계점을 분석하고, 국제원자력기구가 제시한 지표의 평가방법과 표준화된 절차를 도식화하였다. 도출된 평가절차에 따라 우리나라를 포함한 주요 국가의 방사성폐기물관리 체계 및 현황자료를 이용하여 각 국의 방사성폐기물관리에 관한 지속가능 발전지표를 평가하고 그 결과를 비교 분석하였다. 또한 지표의 향상을 통해 국내 방사성폐기물관리의 지속 가능성을 제고할 수 있는 방안을 도출하였다.

A macroeconomic minimodel was simulated to analyze the effect of global exchange on the Korea's economy. The simulation results illustrate some of the consequences of public policy and some insight into current world problems. All computer simulation runs made under various conditions suggest that the Korea's system in the near future may be strongly influenced by the favorable availability of outside resources, while the national power and assets may be declined by indigenous environmental stock depletion. The borrowed capital allows the temporary money stock to increase and the national assets to grow faster and a little higher, as using up the environmental resources more quickly. Later, when the debt is paid off, the foreign exchange holdings may not go so high. For the environmentally sound and sustainable development, over 75% of total economic production should be invested to the natural resource management. Therefore, the economic structure of Korea should be transferred from the present industrial structure to social-economic structure based on ecological-recycling concept.

Sustainable development has been the key concept, both in economic policies and in environmental management. On the basis of an systems ecology perspective, this study suggests the sustainable development of Korea's natural environment and economic activity using the EMERGY evaluation. The total EMERGY use(7,730 E20sej/yr) in Korea is 81 percent from imported sources, fuels and goods and services. The ratio of outside investment to attracting natural resources is already large, like other industrialized countries. Continued availability of purchased inputs at a favorable balance of EMERGY trade, currently about 2.85 to 1 net EMERGY, is the basis for present economic activity and must decrease as the net EMERGY of purchased inputs including fossil fuels goes down. EMERGY yield ratio and environmental loading ratio were 1.23 and 20.30, respectively. The population level is already in excess of carrying capacity. Its carrying capacity for steady state on its renewable sources is only 2.2 million people, compared to 45.9 million in 1997. EMERGY sustainability index is therefore less than one, which is indicative of highly developed consumer oriented economies. Until now the development of a country has been achieved by the economic growth, but it can be sustained in the long run by the use of renewable resource systems, the efficiency of energy usage, and the transformation of the social-economic structure based on an ecological-recycling concept.

Sustainable development has been the key concept, both in economic policies and in environmental management since 1970s. In the view of systems ecology, sustainable resource use strategies are considered to be essential in achieving sustainable development. During the last three decades, the discipline of systems ecology has applied ecological energetic analysis to the evaluation of the contribution of natural environments to economic systems. EMERGY analysis of main energy flows driving the economy of humans and life support systems of a city was made including environmental energies, fuel, and inputs, all expressed as solar emjoules. Total EMERGY use of Pusan was 3.89 E22 sej/yr, about 90 percent of it was purchased sources from outside during eleven years from 1985 to 1995. EMERGY flows from the environment were less than 10 percent. EMERGY yield ratio and environmental loading ratio were 1.10 and 10.45, respectively. EMERGY sustainability index is therefore less than one, which is indicative of highly developed consumer oriented economies. Development of a city has been achieved in the short run by the economic growth, but it can be sustained in the long run by the use of renewable resource systems.