• 제목/요약/키워드: Prevention of Disasters

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교통방재시스템의 구축 방향 및 활용에 대한 연구 (The Research of Establishing Direction and Application of Transportation Disaster Prevention System)

  • 이상화;손영태
    • 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국방재학회 2008년도 정기총회 및 학술발표대회
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    • pp.309-312
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    • 2008
  • In Korea, although the damage from disaster (flood and storm) is increasing, the early stage warning and countermeasure are not in operation rapidly. The research areas of transportation engineering arenot diverse, so once the road is flooded and interrupted, drivers, the system operators and managers are in panic, and nearby roads are in terrible traffic congestion. In case of Korea, the research of evacuation is highly needed, because it is very necessary and easy to apply in real field. In this paper, we establish the concept of transportation disaster prevention system and suggest the directions of it. In addition, based on this research, we choose one example of disasters and establish an example of the transportation disaster prevention system. Our goal is to make steps; prevention, preparation, countermeasure and restoration in the view of minimizing on social chaos and damages emphasizing aspect of transportation countermeasure. This research will be the good precedent of approach, analysis and countermeasure when the disasters are occurred, and a basis of transportation disaster prevention system and manual in Korea.

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재해현장에서의 응급의료체계에 대한 분석과 개선방안 (A Study on the Analysis and Improvement methods of Emergency Medical Service Systems in Disaster Areas)

  • 최근명
    • 한국응급구조학회지
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    • 제7권1호
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    • pp.65-80
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    • 2003
  • Various disasters have been continuously occurred in Korea from 1990s to now. However, there is no substantial improvement against damages as compared with the past due to various reasons such as lack of fundamental recognition, ineffective response systems and widespread insensitivity to safety. More worse, new types of disasters have been frequently generated due to rapid changes in social structures and industrial development, unusual changes in weather and changes of international situations. These disasters request comprehensive countermeasures. In particular, while material damages by disasters can be recovered, the losses of precious lives cannot be recuperated in any ways. Thus, it is critical to set effective disaster medical plans. The first way to minimize damages by disasters is the prevention and the next is to set the disaster medical plans focusing on preliminarily activating the emergency medical system to rapidly rescue and take appropriate emergency medical services for casualties in the early stage when any disaster occurs. Nevertheless, no sufficient researches or references do not exist up to now. Even worse, effective emergency medical systems that play critical roles in increasing survival rates of casualties in actual disaster areas is not deployed. For the United States, the consistent countermeasure system is established in FEMA through a close cooperative system with relevant organizations for serious accidents including terrorists' attacks or natural disasters. For the emergency medical services in disasters, the disaster medical plan is set to cope with any disasters in perfect order by special area as operating the National Disaster Medical SystemESF#8 Role by FEMA. Accordingly, we need to set the extensive and integrated disaster prevention system for rapid and flexible operation against various kinds of serious accidents. This study identified overall problems in disaster control plans in Korea and suggested how to improve the emergency medical service system in disaster areas. Furthermore, it aims to prepare the basic data to set the effective emergency medical service plans when substantial casualties break out and more reasonable and systematic disaster control plans to cope with the future occurrence of serious disasters.

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재난관리를 위한 도시 방재력(Urban Resilience) 개념 및 기능적 목표설정 (The Concept and Functional Objectives of the Urban Resilience for Disaster Management)

  • 김태현;김현주;이계준
    • 한국안전학회지
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    • 제26권1호
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    • pp.65-70
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    • 2011
  • Resilience has been suggested as a new paradigm of disaster management which reduces losses against disasters under the uncertain circumstances. The purpose of this study is to define the concept and to set up the objectives of urban resilience for disaster management. The common concept and components of resilience were analyzed by examining recent studies on resilience. The resilience was defined as "a capacity of physical and social urban elements adapting and recovering against disaster for better condition" and the five objectives of resilience - Robustness, Redundancy, Resourcefulness, Rapidity, and Regional Competency - were derived from the review of literatures. The major disasters and accidents were analyzed focused on those objectives. The concept and objectives of urban resilience could be used as a guidance for disaster prevention planning and disaster management processes.

A Study on the Construction of an Urban Disaster Prevention System based on WSN/GIS

  • Lee, Jeong-Eun;Shin, Seong-Hyun;Hwang, Hyun-Suk;Kim, Chang-Soo
    • 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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    • 제10권12호
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    • pp.1671-1678
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    • 2007
  • In these days, Disaster Management Systems have still put emphasis on its recovery more than the prevention of disaster events. However, the countermeasure of restoration has limitations to prevent the caused loss because the disasters often happen and are massive. Therefore, we propose a disaster prevention system for supporting the safe urban. In this paper, we try to construct a real-time monitoring system to prevent disaster events using new technologies such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Geographic Information System (GIS). As a prototype to simulate the fire disasters on real-time, we construct gas sensors and temperature sensors. Our system consists of a WSN system to collect data of the gas and temperature sensors and to monitor the situation information. Our contribution is to provide a prototype application to prevent the disasters from the fire by constructing a WSN system with gas and temperature sensors.

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Disaster Health Literacy of Middle-aged Women

  • Seifi, Bahar;Ghanizadeh, Ghader;Seyedin, Hesam
    • Journal of Menopausal Medicine
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    • 제24권3호
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    • pp.150-154
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    • 2018
  • As disasters have been increasing in recent years, disaster health literacy is gaining more important for a population such as middle-age women. This is because they face developmental crises (menopause) and situational crisis (disaster). Due to the growing elderly population, it is imperative to seriously consider the issue of aging women's healthcare, and their educational needs relative to emergencies and disasters. The purpose of study was to clarify the importance of disaster health literacy for middle-age women. This study is a review of the literature using PubMed, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, Google Scholar, SCOPUS, OVID, ProQuest, Springer, and Wiley. Data was collected with keywords related to the research topic ("Women's health" OR "Geriatric health") AND ("Health literacy" OR "Disaster health literacy" OR "Disaster prevention literacy" OR "Risk knowledge" OR "Knowledge management") AND ("Disasters" OR "Risk" OR "Crises") in combination with the Boolean-operators OR and AND. We reviewed full text English-language articles published November 2011 November 2017. Additional references were identified from reference lists in targeted publications, review articles and books. This review demonstrated that disaster health literacy is critical for elderly women, because they may suffer from physical and psychological problems triggered by developmental crises such as menopause and situational crises such as disasters. Disaster literacy could enable them to improve resiliency and reduce disaster risk. Education has vital role in health promotion of middle-age women. Policymakers and health managers should be aware of the challenges of elderly women as a vulnerable group in disasters and develop plans to incorporate disaster health literacy for preparedness and prevention in educating this group.

자연재해위험지구 정비사업의 효율적인 추진방안 연구 (On Efficient Implementation of the Regeneration Projects for the Zones Vulnerable to Natural Disasters)

  • 김선근;조원철;이태식;심재현
    • 한국재난관리표준학회지
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    • 제1권1호
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    • pp.45-51
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    • 2008
  • 본 연구에서는 예산지원이 원활치 못한 자연재해위험지구에 대한 정비사업을 효율적으로 추진하고, 재해예방사업을 조속히 이행하며 재정지원을 안정적으로 확보할 수 있는 몇 가지 방안을 제안하고자 한다. 이를 위해서 자연재해위험지구 지정절차 및 법적등 제도적 장치 에 대한 분석을 수행하고, 경기도에서 수행된 정비사업을 지역, 피해이력, 연간투자계획, 재정기금 등의 측면에서 조사 분석 하였다. 추가적으로 재난관리기금을 보존하거나 사용하는 여부를 결정하는 기준을 조사하였으며, 기금출처 및 지출, 기금사용의 법적 문제점을 분석하고 그 해결책을 제시하였다. 결과적으로 본 연구에서는 재난관리기금이 재난위험을 초기에 감소시키기 위해서 자연재해위험지구 정비사업에 투자될 수 있도록 법적제도를 완화하여야 하며, 적립금 상한제를 두어 초과분은 재해예방사업에 안정적으로 투자 할 수 있는 재원으로 활용해야함을 제안하고자 한다.

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조선 세조대 기후특성과 재해 경감 노력 (Weather Characteristics and Efforts to Reduce Disasters during the Reign of King Sejo in the Chosun Dynasty)

  • 이욱;홍윤
    • 대기
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    • 제22권2호
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    • pp.199-208
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    • 2012
  • This study was conducted in order to analyze weather characteristics during the reign of King Sejo in the Chosun Dynasty based on The Annals of the Chosun Dynasty. For this purpose, first of all, we need to determine whether The Annals of the Chosun Dynasty is a reliable material for research on weather characteristics. Thus, we compared weather phenomena during the reign of King Sejo with those in China and Japan in the same period. From the results, it was found that The Annals of the Chosun Dynasty is a useful material at least to grasp macroscopic trends in weather phenomena. Based on this assumption, we analyzed weather characteristics during the reign of King Sejo using data from The Annals of the Chosun Dynasty. During the days of King Sejo, the climate was not changed violently and there were not many disasters caused by abnormal climate such as bad harvests. This suggests that the climate was relatively stable during the period of King Sejo. As a consequence of stable weather, famine decreased markedly. However, this was not only because of stable climate but also because of the government's active efforts to reduce disasters. As droughts and floods were not frequent, social costs for recovery from disasters also decreased considerably and the saved money could be invested in the construction of social safety nets for the prevention of disasters. One of factors supporting the enthronement of King Sejo was a series of heavily damaging bad harvests during the reign of Kings Munjong and Danjong. The prevention of bad harvests was a historical mission given to the regime of King Sejo. During his reign, King Sejo promoted various policies in order to stop bad harvests. Such efforts included the government's active construction of embankments, introduction of seeds suitable for reclaimed lands, and inspiration of the consciousness of forceful farming enduring natural disasters such as floods. As a result, abnormal weathers such as floods and droughts did not lead directly to bad harvests.

건설공사 안전투자비용 최적화 연구 (A Study of Pertinent Safety Investment Reckoning by Economic toss Analysis of Industry Calamity in Construction Work)

  • 김연희
    • 한국안전학회지
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    • 제19권4호
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    • pp.117-122
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    • 2004
  • The investment for industrial disasters prevention can not help but get accomplished in negative way. At this point, the most effective way to diminish industrial disaster outbreak is the very subject should strive to prevent it by itself However, it's still the times that we place more weight on economic development no economic subject would not positively self-participate in it for the investment for industrial disasters prevention without my effect of numerical reduction. In this view, this study will tv to entirely analyze and grasp the economic toss due to industrial disasters at construction sites, and will present the most suitable safety-investment. As a result, in domestic construction sites, averagely $1.6\~2.6\%$ of the entire construction expenses had been invested for safety expense. The according to the result of the analysis, basically this safety investment expenses should be spent $2.4\%$ over to reduce the saffey-accidents stably.