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Disaster is one of the representative residential decision factors that threat residential stability of local governments with marginal status of population decrease and aging, less competitive industrial structure and low-level growth economy. Flood disasters derived from typhoons and/or heavy rains is the most significant disaster in Korea with respect to annual average monetary disaster manage during the last ten years. the total monetary damage of flood disasters occupies about 90 percent of total natural disaster damage costs. However, there have been lack of studies for flood disaster risks to local governments of South Korea. The purpose of this research is to develop the framework of analysis methods and process for residential stability affected by flood disasters using multi-criteria decisionmaking methods. the analytic network process(ANP) model is used as the representative multi-criteria decision-making method for flood disaster risks of Korean local governments using social economy, land-use, disaster mitigation, and natural environment.

Recently, local governments tend to calculate the amount of greenhouse gas(GHG) emissions, so that they set up GHG emission reduction target to respond to climate change. This study has intended to calculate the amount of GHG emissions in Cheongju city based on the 2006 IPCC guidelines and to analyze the determinants of GHG emission characteristics through regression analysis. This study consists of the following 4 steps: first, defining the characteristics and causes of GHG emissions; second, calculating the amount of Cheongju’s GHG emissions from such sectors as energy, land-use, and waste using the 2006 IPCC guidelines; third, analyzing the determinants of GHG emission characteristics by Cheongju city using regression analysis; and finally, suggesting policy measures through synthetic analysis. This study has found the following results. 1) Calculating the amount of Cheongju’ GHG emissions from 2000 to 2008, this study has found that the amount of GHG emissions in Cheongju city increased 3.6 percent from 2000 to 2008. 2) In Energy sector, this study has found 'registered motor vehicles' as a major determinant of the GHG emission characteristics in Cheongju City. However in other sectors, this study has not found any determinants of the GHG emission characteristics.

This paper investigates an empirical relationship between house price dynamics and mortgage choices between adjustable- and fixed-rate mortgages. As increasing housing costs generally reduce housing demand, house prices are likely to decrease as real housing cost increases This paper shows that as borrowers prefer to choose more adjustable rate mortgages rather than fixed rate mortgages in the U.S. metropolitan areas, house prices are more likely to decrease further with a negative shock of housing costs. This implies that house prices are much more volatile in markets in which more borrowers prefer to choose adjustable rate mortgages like a Korean market.

Recently the Urban Maintenance Project became the one of representative methods to renew the Deteriorated Residential Areas including the joint redevelopment policy. However, single family housing and multi-family housing areas were eliminated rapidly by increasing apartment preference and characteristics of the joint redevelopment. Furthermore, the urban maintenance has been delayed the effects of building density and height regulation in landscape zone and height ceiling zone to preserve the natural environment and landscape. To accomplish public purposes, this study compared existing development methods with economical effects of the self-maintainability and analyzed the economical effects after reflecting the characteristics of landscape zone and height ceiling zone. In this study, the analysis result shows that NPV became '-' value if 5th floor, 20m regulating and that NPV increased if 7th floor, 28m regulating but relatively low value compare to the self-maintainability and the block maintenance. This study aimed to suggest the necessity of public funding for the self maintenance and improvement of perception on benefits from redevelopment project as landscape districts or maximum height districts changes to the housing redevelopment zone.

This study aims at analyzing the mechanism of conflicts formation and looking for conflict causes in the urban redevelopment process. This paper examines the interaction of the 4th Yongsan region redevelopment project stakeholders and conflict structure and then give suggestions for conflict resolution. Theoretical study is to research literature with a focus on the conflicts of urban redevelopment projects. The case study is analysed using literature, media resources, in-depth interviews, journals on the Yongsan-gu office, and various conference materials, and etc. In-depth interview method is applied to the direct or indirect main actors of the 4th Yongsan region redevelopment. This study suggests, the following implications for resolving conflicts: First, it need to change the policy direction for reducing conflicts in the redevelopment projects. Second, the local government is required to aggressive switching for the official viewpoint overlooking. Third, there is necessary to establish the standards for a various compensation of commercial tenants, including "Commercial Building's Premium"(Gwonligeum). Fourth, the "Community Building Projects" (Maeulmandeulgi) should be introduced and suggest that "Advanced Renewal Method".

Industrial location policy in South Korea is highly valued as one of the successful polices. The key driver of industrial location policy is industrial estates. Since Korea government started establishing industrial estates for the purpose of industrialization in 1960s, industrial estate has been playing a main role in invigorating the economy, and its role will keep expanding. However, it is still required to change existing management style, expand its support function, introduce its new roles, and finally to implement them in a realistic and feasible manner. In this paper, current trend of industrial estate was examined, and then an analysis of the operational problems on industrial estates policy and its management issues was conducted. Furthermore, new conceptual model on management of industrial estate were established with its improvement plans, based on the direction of industrial estate policy in Korea, the characteristics of organizations occupied in industrial estates, and case studies in other countries. Suggested policy alternatives for the policy shift and implementation plans are as follows: first, systematizing and unifying related policies, second, enlargement of the range of industrial estate management, including all of the industrial estates related industrial location, third, expanding management support, fourth, reorganizing industrial estates management system, fifth, improving effectiveness of management through competition and delegation to private sector, and sixth, connecting with spatial concepts and environments.