Aggregated hedonic dataset with a green index: Busan, South Korea.

We provide an aggregated dataset for investigating the association between hedonic variables and property prices in the Busan Metropolitan City of South Korea. This hedonic dataset includes various factors that influence property prices such as property characteristics, environmental amenities, local built environments, local demographic characteristics, and seasonal controls. In this dataset, we introduce the green index, which quantifies the degree of urban street greenness exposed to residents and pedestrians using images from Google Street View.

Assessment of street-level greenness and its association with housing prices in a metropolitan area.

Rapid global urbanization has made environmental amenities scarce despite their considerable advantages, ranging from aesthetics to health benefits. Street greenness is a key urban environmental amenity. This study developed a green index as an objective measure of greenness using street view images and assessed its predictive power along with that of other environmental amenities for metropolitan housing prices.

Bacterial degradation kinetics of poly(Ɛ-caprolactone) (PCL) film by Aquabacterium sp. CY2-9 isolated from plastic-contaminated landfill.

Despite the identification of numerous bioplastic-degrading bacteria, the inconsistent rate of bioplastic degradation under differing cultivation conditions limits the intercomparison of results on biodegradation kinetics. In this study, we isolated a poly (Ɛ-caprolactone) (PCL)-degrading bacterium from a plastic-contaminated landfill and determined the principle-based biodegradation kinetics in a confined model system of varying cultivation conditions. Bacterial degradation of PCL films synthesized by different polymer number average molecular weights (M) and concentrations (% w/v) was investigated using both solid and liquid media at various temperatures.

Distinct Bacterial and Fungal Communities Colonizing Waste Plastic Films Buried for More Than 20 Years in Four Landfill Sites in Korea.

Plastic pollution has been recognized as a serious environmental problem, and microbial degradation of plastics is a potential, environmentally friendly solution to this. Here, we analyzed and compared microbial communities on waste plastic films (WPFs) buried for long periods at four landfill sites with those in nearby soils to identify microbes with the potential to degrade plastics. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy spectra of these WPFs showed that most were polyethylene and had signs of oxidation, such as carbon-carbon double bonds, carbon-oxygen single bonds, or hydrogen-oxygen single bonds, but the presence of carbonyl groups was rare.

Horticoccus luteus gen. nov., sp. nov., A Novel Member of the Phylum Verrucomicrobia Isolated from a Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT)-Contaminated Orchard Soil.

Strain KSB-15 was isolated from an orchard soil that had been contaminated with the insecticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane for about 60 years. The 16S rRNA gene sequence of this strain showed the highest sequence similarities with those of Oleiharenicola alkalitolerans NVT (95.3%), Opitutus terrae PB90-1 (94.

Hedonic dataset of the metropolitan housing market - Cases in South Korea.

This article presents a database cleaned and generated for analyzing the economic impact of subway network on housing prices in metropolitan areas. The provision of transit networks and accompanying improvement in accessibility induce various impact and we focused on the economic impact reflected in housing prices. Although our emphasis is on transit accessibility and housing prices, the dataset presented is applicable to other analyses.