Environmental damage caused by marine plastic debris occurs and has become a major contributor to marine pollution. This study analyzed the current state of marine plastic debris pollution and proposed essential strategies to reduce damage. To assess the current state of pollution arising from marine plastic debris, this study investigated the properties of plastic debris, reviewed case studies of ecological impacts, and examined the inflow and distribution of marine plastic debris. The results of this study indicate that the major deleterious effects of marine plastics are entanglement and ingestion. In addition, the amount of plastic waste entering the sea was estimated to be 230 Mt in 2015 and may increase to 554 Mt in 2050. In this study, three key strategies were proposed to reduce damage and preserve the ecosystem, including: 1) removing plastic debris in the marine environment, 2) limiting the release of plastic debris to the marine environment, and 3) preventing damage to humans and marine life from plastic debris. To minimize the environmental damage caused by marine plastic debris, the proposed response strategies should be implemented in parallel.

2014년 4월 발생한 세월호 침몰사고는 단순한 해양사고를 넘어 해양재난으로, 나아가 국민의 정서와 사회의 건전성까지 황 폐화시킨 사회적 참사로 확대되었다. 따라서, 국가 운영에 치명적 영향을 미칠 수도 있는 대규모 선박사고나 해양오염사고, 그리고 자연재해 등 각종 해양재난에 대해 국가적 차원에서 철저한 대비·대응이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 대규모 해양재난으로 인해 발생할 수 있는 국가 경제적·사회적 피해를 최소화하기 위해 국가적 위기를 불확실성에 근거하여 해석한 ‘검은 백조 이론’을 중심으로 대규모 해양재난에 대한 국가적 대응전략을 검토한다. 먼저, 사고예방을 위한 각 방어장벽별 결함을 최소화 시키는 노력과 함께 특정 방어장벽에 결함이 발생하더라도 그 결함이 위기사태로 연결되지 않도록 ‘해양재난의 검은 백조 탐지시스템’을 구축하는 한편, 해양재난을 관 리하는 주관기관을 일원화하여 해양안전관리 전 분야를 체계적으로 관리하고, 국가적 해양재난대응 현장지휘 및 협업체계를 구축하여 사고현장에 투입된 모든 대응세력들이 현장지휘관의 지휘통제에 따라 단일조직의 구성요소처럼 일사불란하게 움직여 사고수습에 효과적으로 대응할 수 있도록 한다.

Climate change has been identified as one with the greatest challenges facing nations, government, business and over future decades. Activities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the Kyoto Protocol, the international community has been in progress. Korea also has introduced the Emission trading system to reduce greenhouse emission from the supervision of the government. Greenhouse gases emissions quantity should be internationally recognized. Mutual Recognition Arrangement should be recognized as the same greenhouse gas emission. International recognition of domestic verification body of international mutual recognition is required. Efforts are needed to secure the equivalence between the emission rights through direct cooperation with the relative nation accreditation body. Early entry into the IAF/PAC GHG MLA is essential for demonstrating equivalence between greenhouse gas emissions. Emissions trading will also require connection to the EU ETS, California, USA, and Tokyo, Japan to link Emissions trading. In the case of establishing accreditation standards and accreditation criteria, it will be necessary to distinguish between the domestic Energy Target Management System and the Emission Trading System. Independent greenhouse gases verification bodies should be established to meet the requirements of IAF and PAC. It is necessary to revise the qualification criteria for the verification of the greenhouse gas verification body according to international standards requirements. It is necessary to support the role of accreditation bodies of domestic greenhouse gas verification bodies. It is required to join international organizations of international mutual recognition of international trade and the need for pilot projects to link greenhouse gas emissions. The core link to our emission trading system is called EU-ETS, and we will need to join the IAF/PAC GHG MLA GHG. The International Mutual Recognition Agreement (IAF) is expected to allow international interoperability of GHG emissions verification between EA and the PAC. By signing a PAC GHG MLA, it will need to be prepared to prepare for the pilot project to link the emission trading system.

In this paper, we review the influence of crisis response strategies in social media on attitude recovery in relation to customer brand commitment. We extend the situational crisis communication theory and the social-mediated crisis communication model to include the role of audience characteristics (i.e., customer brand commitment). The effects of crisis response strategies (i.e., defensive, accommodative) and electronic word of mouth antecedents are discussed because source factors, message factors, and audience factors lead to attitude recovery. We also introduce a framework of the impacts of brand crisis response strategies on customer attitude recovery after exposure to negative word of mouth and response strategies in social media.

Product liability (PL), which began enforcement in 2002, refers to the legal responsibility of the manufacturers or sellers (wholesales or retailers) for the property damage or bodily harm caused by their product. With a strong enforcement of the Product Liability (PL) Act, companies are required to structure and operate a response system to defend or prevent product accidents efficiently, but small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are unable to respond more aggressively due to limitation of management resources. In this manner, it is important to develop response strategies for SMEs to efficiently cope with the PL Act. In this paper, the PEST (Political, Economic, Social, and Technological) analysis is performed to reveal the impact of the PL Act on SMEs in macro-economic point of view. To formulate SME’s PL response strategy, SWOT analysis is performed to categorize each factors from PEST analysis and AHP is applied to identify the intensities of SWOT factors. The prioritized SWOT factor, results of PEST-SWOT-AHP analysis, are used to formulate SME’s PL response strategies. The study results are briefly summarized as follows. To reduce product defects, it is necessary for SMEs to formulate PL response strategies for each phase of the product life cycle by continuously collecting and analyzing PL cases in the same industry or for similar products. In addition, SMEs should invest more technological effort to ensure product safety. Further, SMEs should spread PL awareness to all staff members by training internal PL experts. Moreover, a SME should enroll in PL insurance and spread this information to its customers so that they become aware that the company is proactively conforming to the PL law.

Whereas the interest in the area of corporate crises and crisis response strategies has been increasing during the last decades (e.g. Coombs, 2007; Dawar & Pillutla, 2000), little is known on the spillover effects that an organizational crisis can induce towards other firms within the same industry. Though over the years, a variety of reputational collapses of single companies have become memorable by causing whole industries to suffer. Following these considerations, the aim of this study is to extend prior research on corporate crises and crisis management by focusing on intra-industry spillover effects. We investigate the topic by means of an experiment taking as an example the sportswear industry. We randomly assigned participants interested in sports to a scenario with either a personally relevant scandal or a personally irrelevant one about one major sportswear brand. We then measured the corporate reputation, purchase intentions and willingness to recommend the brand for an overall of five sportswear companies as dependent variables. We find a significant negative spillover and reduction of corporate reputation and behavioral intentions for different sportswear brands and thereby distinguish between the unexplored effects of scandal relatedness to the customer. We are the first to investigate the degree of personal relevance of upcoming negative information, finding no significant influence on the strength of scandal spillover. Furthermore, we argue against existing literature and question the role of reputation as protective shield and buffer against negative spillover, finding especially companies with high corporate reputation to suffer from scandal spillover. In a next step, we employed three different response strategies, namely active, defensive and collective (Dawar & Pillutla 2000) in order to find the best spillover correction method for competing brands. Conversely, we found none of the three response strategies to be suitable spillover correction methods placing managers of spillover-affected companies into a blind alley.

After analyzing the actual acquisition status of carbon labeling by year and by product for the past four years, as well as its certification in the construction-related sectors of greenhouse gas emission, this study attempted to present the problems and coping strategies upon issuing the carbon labeling certification in the landscape architecture. During the period of this analysis, the carbon labelings were acquired by 134 enterprises, 267 workplaces, and 735 products, while the percentage of acquisition was highest in the regular non-durable goods(49%), followed by energy-consuming durable goods(26%), regular production goods (19%), regular durable goods(3%), and service(3%). Furthermore, the acquisition certifications in construction sectors, were highest in the various pipes/panel(8 cases), followed by concrete(6 cases), gypsum board(4 cases), and landscape architecture materials(2 cases). The landscape architecture only had two cases in the acquisition certification for the first time in 2012, which accounted for 0.27% of the entire certification products, due to the uncertainty in the process, the lack of professionalism, and the lack of comprehension. However, the study conducted on the coping strategies for carbon labeling in the landscape architecture revealed the following: (1) regular reporting system management through the division of labor in the head office and factories, (2) the building of objective DB through the adoption of data management programs such as SAP, (3) continuous promotion and vitalization of the incentive system, (4) the adoption of mandatory or preferential application system in landscaping projects, management, and bidding, (5) enhancement of elasticity in deliberation of certification by recruiting experts in the landscape architecture sectors, and (6) provision of incentives for the cooperative firms acquiring the certification and support for their participation.

본 연구의 목적은 다양한 자극속도조건에서 수행되는 예측타이밍 반응시 따라잡기 및 예측성 단속성 안구운동이 반응의 정확성과 안구운동패턴에 미치는 영향을 분석함으로써 자극속도별 최적 정보처리전략을 파악하는 것이다. 12명의 피험자가 세 가지 안구운동조건에서 다양한 속도로 제시되는 자극에 대한 예측타이밍 반응을 수행하였다. 예측타이밍 반응의 정확성은 자극속도와 안구운동전략의 조합에 따라 결정되었으며, 자연적-조건 및 따라잡기-조건에서 관찰된 항상오차와 절대오차는 자극속도가 증가할수록 커지는 것으로 나타났으나, 예측성-조건에서는 느린 속도조건에서보다 빠른 속도조건에서 오히려 감소되었다. 안구운동패턴의 경우, 자연적-조건 및 따라잡기-조건에서는 자극속도가 증가할수록 단속성 안구운동의 개시시간이 빨라지고 크기가 증가하였으나, 예측성-조건에서는 자극속도의 영향을 받지 않았다. 빠른 속도조건인 11m/s 및 13m/s에서의 자극도달전 안구고정기간은 자연적-조건 및 따라잡기-조건에 비해 예측성-조건에서 더 길었으며, 이는 빠른 속도조건의 경우 예측성 전략이 자극도달전 안구고정기간을 증가시킴으로써 자극의 도달시점에 대한 예측의 정확성을 향상시킬 수 있음을 시사한다. 종합해 볼 때, 본 실험의 결과는 다양한 속도로 이동하는 자극에 대한 예측타이밍 반응시의 최적 안구운동전략이 자극속도에 따라 달라질 수 있으며, 자극속도의 범위가 9m/s 이하일 경우에는 자연적인 따라잡기 전략이 자극정보의 처리에 유리할 수 있지만, 자극속도가 그 범위를 초과할 경우에는 예측성 전략이 보다 효율적인 정보처리를 유도할 수 있음을 시사한다.