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Disaster Resilience in Self-Organized Interorganizational Networks: Theoretical Perspectives and Assessment

  • Jung, Kyujin
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.98-110
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    • 2016
  • Building resilient community is often a complicated process to be gained by interorganizational collaboration. Since patterns of interorganizational relations among governments and sectors are constantly changing due to internal and external factors in the field of emergency management, understanding the dynamic nature of interorganizational collaboration is a critical step for improving a community’s ability to bounce back from a catastrophic event. From two theoretical perspectives, this research aims to examine the essential role of working across levels of governments and sectors in building resilient community by focusing on sources of community resiliency and a strong commitment. The empirical evidence highlights the importance of studying resilience as a way to understand the motivation and incentive for organizations to work jointly during emergency response. The study of organizational resilience also draws attention for the importance of various forms of interorganizational collaboration such as formal and informal relations. It also highlights how local organizations can utilize their relations to seek resources without necessarily jeopardizing their ability to perform their core organizational functions.

Remembering Disasters: the Resilience Approach

  • le Blanc, Antoine
    • The Journal of Art Theory & Practice
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    • no.14
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    • pp.217-245
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    • 2012
  • The aim of this paper is to show how the paradigm of disaster resilience may help reorienting urban planning policies in order to mitigate various types of risks, thanks to carefully thought action on heritage and conservation practices. Resilience is defined as the "capacity of a social system to proactively adapt to and recover from disturbances that are perceived within the system to fall outside the range of normal and expected disturbances." It relies greatly on risk perception and the memory of catastrophes. States, regions, municipalities, have been giving territorial materiality to collective memory for centuries, but this trend has considerably increased in the second half of the 20th century. This is particularly true regarding the memory of disasters: for example, important traces of catastrophes such as urban ruins have been preserved, because they were supposed to maintain some awareness and hence foster urban resilience - Berlin's Gedachtniskirche is a well-known example of this policy. Yet, in spite of preserved traces of catastrophes and various warnings and heritage policies, there are countless examples of risk mismanagement and urban tragedies. Using resilience as a guiding concept might change the results of these failed risk mitigation policies and irrelevant disaster memory processes. Indeed, the concept of resilience deals with the complexity of temporal and spatial scales, and with partly emotional and qualitative processes, so that this approach fits the issues of urban memory management. Resilience might help underlining the complexity and the subtlety of remembrance messages, and lead to alternative paths better adapted to the diversity of risks, places and actors. However, when it is given territorial materiality, memory is almost always symbolically and politically framed and interpreted; Vale and Campanella had already outlined this political aspect of remembrance and resilience as a discourse. Resilience and the territorialization of memory are not ideologically neutral, but urban risk mitigation may come at that price.

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A Comparative Study on the Importance of the Components of the Community Disaster Resilience on Disaster Response (지역사회 재난회복력 구성요소와 재난관리정책 결정요인 분석)

  • Kim, Jinkeun;Park, Chanseok
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.339-346
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: In fact, to manage response and recovery successfully, although mitigation and preparedness should be accomplished naturally and automatically through thorough analysis and assessment, response, recovery, mitigation, and preparedness have not done in the way of virtuous cycles and continued broken disaster management repeatedly. Method: By Analysis through the critical methods, to enhance the community disaster resilience centered by social disaster management system in Korea, Result: (1) public training & education preparing for emergency or disaster (2) supplying public with disaster, or hazards information, and sharing at real time (3) networking emergency and disaster informational communication system & alarm system (4) analysis and assessment of risk(or disaster) in community (5) inter-governmental cooperative relationship and agreements (6) adopting and implementing disaster or hazards mitigation plan Conclusion: These will be able to be fully melt down into and specifically focused in the disaster policies in Korea for the better disaster management.

The Effect of Road Networks on Urban Resilience in Flooding (도시침수 시 도로네트워크가 도시회복도에 미치는 영향 분석)

  • Hyung Jun Park;Dong Hyun Kim;Hyun Jung Lee;Seung Oh Lee
    • Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.85-98
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    • 2023
  • Flood is one of the most frequent natural disasters worldwide. In Korea, the probability of urban flooding is greatly increasing due to complex factors such as global warming, an increase in impervious areas, and limitations in expanding water supply facilities in existing urban areas. However, large-scale civil engineering works to prevent urban inundation are socially and economically difficult to obtain national consent. Recently the importance of resilience, which is the ability to return to the original state after a disaster through rapid recovery while preparing for natural disasters to a level that the local community can afford socially and economically, is increasing. Accordingly, various studies on urban resilience have been conducted, but the resilience measurement method related to the lifeline that provides essential services of the city is insufficient. However, among lifelines, road networks are important facilities for the transportation of recovery resources and rapid recovery in the event of a natural disaster, so road networks are a major factor that must be considered when measuring the degree of recovery of a city in the field of natural disasters. Therefore, this study proposes a recovery evaluation method considering the characteristics of resilience and road networks in the urban flooding field and analyzes the effect of road networks on urban resilience.

Suggestions for an Effective Earthquake R&D Strategy in Korea through an Analysis of Japan's Earthquake Disaster Prevention System (일본의 지진방재·대응 시스템 분석을 통한 효과적인 우리나라 지진 R&D 전략 제언)

  • Kim, Seong-Yong;Lee, Jae-Wook
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.53 no.3
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    • pp.321-336
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    • 2020
  • The Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion (HERP) represents the upper-most level of Japan's earthquake disaster prevention governance. Its policy committee establishes the national earthquake investigation research promotion plan. The earthquake investigation committee of HERP collects survey geo-data and evaluates the research results of each earthquake disaster prevention agency. The establishment of an earthquake-related geo-resilience research strategy is both necessary and desirable for Korea. The concept of geo-resilience entails the ability to improve disaster resilience through the application of research results and the convergence of geoscience with science and technology (S&T) including the humanities and social sciences. The achievement of geo-resilience requires a national long-term roadmap and strategy for earthquake prediction research, the development of earthquake disaster prediction and prevention technology, Geo-ICT convergence technology development, implementation of a geocyber physics system (Geo-CPS), the use of geo-mimetics, and geoscientific R&D as it relates to local communities. Through such efforts, the national research institutes of Korea will be able to develop earthquake prediction capacities in relevant fields, reinforce proactive response capabilities, enhance community-level confidence in geodata and its research results, foster next-generation geoscientific manpower, and expand geoscientific infrastructure.

A Study on the Level of BCMS(Business Continuity Management System) of Small and Medium Enterprises (중소기업의 재해경감활동관리체계 수준진단(Checklist)에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Mi Sun;Kim, Min Ji;Kim, Do Yeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.122-128
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    • 2017
  • Recently, accidents such as human accidents are increasing rapidly due to natural disasters and changes in social conditions due to abnormal weather. As a result, damage has been causing massive damage unlike the past. In the case of small and medium enterprises excluding financial institutions and big company, there is no system for prevention and restoration for stable operation from various risks such as human and natural disasters. As the current disaster continues, public and private companies have raised the need for BCM, and with the introduction of the ISO22301 certification system, the company has been establishing and operating Enterprise Disaster Management Standards in the Ministry of Public Safety and Security since 2007. However, in most SMEs, it is hard to bear the input of internal labor and investment cost, and there is a lack of personnel with expertise to conduct BCM diagnosis. Therefore, in this paper, we will study the diagnosis level of enterprise continuity plan which is commonly used in Korea and abroad. Based on this, we will study the BCM system diagnosis method which can be applied to small and medium enterprises in Korea efficiently.

A Study on the Disaster Risk Communication for the Reinforcement of Urban Resilience -Focused on the Utilization of Hazard Map as a Tool of Risk Communication- (도시방재력 강화를 위한 재해 리스크 커뮤니케이션에 관한 연구 -리스크 커뮤니케이션의 도구로서 해저드 맵의 활용을 중심으로-)

  • Kwack, Dongwha
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.376-387
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to propose the methods for utilization and improvement of hazard map as a tool of risk communication, through the studying the importance and method of risk communication for the improvement of urban resilience. The comparative evaluation between hazard maps of Korea and Japan is done, and the cases of hazard map making is analyzed. 5 proposals are summarized for hazard map utilization.

Factors associated with Quality of Life among Disaster Victims: An Analysis of the 3rd Nationwide Panel Survey of Disaster Victims (재난 피해자의 삶의 질에 영향을 미치는 요인: 제3차 재난 피해자 패널 자료분석)

  • Cho, Myong Sun
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.217-225
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess socio-demographic, disaster-related, physical health-related, psychological, and social factors that may adversely affect disaster victims' QoL (Quality of Life). Methods: A cross sectional study was designed by using the secondary data. From the 3rd Disaster Victims Panel Survey (2012~2017), a total of 1,659 data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics including frequency, percentage, t-test, ANOVA, and multivariate linear regression. Results: Older people with lower health status lacking financial resources prior to a disaster were more at risk of low levels of QoL. Lower levels of perceived health status, resilience, and QoL were reported by disaster exposed individuals, while their depression was higher than the depression in the control group of disaster unexposed ones. Resilience, social and material supports were positively associated with QoL whereas depression and PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders) were negatively associated. Conclusion: These findings suggest that psychological symptoms and loss due to disasters can have adverse impacts on the QoL of disaster victims in accordance with their prior socio-demographic background. They also indicate that targeted post-disaster community nursing intervention should be considered a means of increased social support as well as physical and mental health care for disaster victims.

Corporation's Adaptation to Climate Change Related Natural Disasters : Embedding Resiliency in Supply Chain - A Study on Climate Change Related Natural Disaster Adaptation for Corporations -

  • Pak, Myong Sop;Kim, In Sun
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.64
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    • pp.239-264
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    • 2014
  • Two types of responses to climate change exist. First is climate mitigation which includes efforts of reducing CO2 and GHG emissions. Second response is climate adaptation process which is establishing climate resilience in the supply chain. The two are inherently different since mitigation strategy focus on eliminating the source of climate change and is long term in nature but adaptation strategy is moderating the impact of potential or current climate change. In order to embed climate resilience in the supply chain, mitigation strategies and adaption strategies must be implemented simultaneously. Corporation's adaptation to climate change related natural disaster can be seen as a response that includes mitigation and adaptation strategies simultaneously. A comprehensive climate change resilience supply chain approach has to be developed. This paper illustrated guidelines and adaptation process framework businesses can utilize in order to build climate resilience. Screening process before the actual assessment of risk was introduced as well as the whole adaptation process of establishing information system and strengthening climate-related operational flexibility.

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