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Monitoring of The Impacts of the Natural Disaster Based on The Use of Space Technology

  • Kurnaz, Sefer;Rustamov, Rustam B.;Zeynalova, Maral;Salahova, Saida E.
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.98-103
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    • 2009
  • The forecasting, mitigation and preparedness of the natural disaster impacts require relevant information regarding the disaster desirable in real time. In the meantime it is requiring the rapid and continuous data and information generation or gathering for possible prediction and monitoring of the natural disaster. Since disasters that cause huge social and economic disruptions normally affect large areas or territories and are linked to global change. The use of traditional and conventional methods for management of the natural disaster impact can not be effectively implemented for intial data col1ection with the further processing. The space technology or remote sensing tools offer excellent possibilities of collecting vital data. The main reason is capability of this technology of collecting data at global and regional scales rapidly and repetitively. This is unchallenged advantage of the space methods and technology. The satellite or remote sensing techniques can be used to monitor the current situation, the situation before based on the data in sight. as well as after disaster occurred. They can be used to provide baseline data against which future changes can be compared while the GIS techniques provide a suitable framework for integrating and analyzing the many types of data sources required for disaster monitoring. Developed GIS is an excellent instrument for definition of the social impact status of the natural disaster which can be undertaken in the future database developments. This methodology is a good source for analysis and dynamic change studies of the natural disaster impacts.

A Plan for a New Public Natural Disaster Insurance -With priority given to Microinsurance and Index Insurance (공공자연재해보험의 도입방안 - Microinsurance와 Index Insurance를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Jeong-In;Oh, Kyung-Hee
    • Journal of Environmental Policy
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.151-173
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    • 2011
  • Whenever several natural disasters hit Korea with huge damage of property loss and death toll, government spends huge sums of money for rehabilitation of devastated areas every year. It's time to discuss about a natural disaster insurance, which is a long-term as well as precautionary measure. It is advisable to discuss government involvement through the natural disaster insurance, implementation of countermeasures against natural disasters. The natural disasters insurance have to executed as follows, 1) introducing natural disaster insurance with characteristics of social welfare, which makes fast recovery and anxiety reduction in the low-income bracket. 2) advisable to mix the methods of microinsurance including the natural disaster and index insurance.

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The present state of natural disaster caused by extreme heat in the Korea Peninsula (폭염으로 인한 한반도 자연재해 현황)

  • Kim, Eun-Byul;Park, Jong-Kil;Kim, Baek-Jo
    • 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.02a
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    • pp.323-326
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    • 2007
  • Recently, occurrence frequency of natural disasters decrease but scale of damage increase remarkably by the Climate change due to global warming. Especially, extreme heat become more critical weather problem in the Korean Peninsula. But, we don't have exact threshold about extreme heat. Extreme heat does not classify into natural disaster. Therefore, we have compared death count of the natural disaster with the one of extreme heat at Seoul, Korea. As a result, the number of death by extreme heat don't smaller than one by the natural disasters and we knew extreme heat have also to consider as natural disaster.

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A Study on Developing Model for Regional Disaster Capability Assessment (지역방재성능평가를 위한 수리모형 연구)

  • Ki, Jae-Sug
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2011
  • It is a significant issue for several country including Korea, where the natural and the weather conditions are severe, to keep the safety against disasters which occur frequently every year, especially in urban region crowded with population. In order to implement suitable and effective measures against various disasters in such area, development of method for evaluation of disaster prevention performance based on various disaster risks and effective disaster damage mitigation technologies is independable. In this paper, methods for hazard evaluation, vulnerability evaluation and loss evaluation, and damage technologies are proposed targetting man-made disaster and natural one like flood, earthquake and tsunami and so on. The method proposed in this paper is based on the research of USA and Japan for man-made disaster and natural disaster. The proposed method will be developed in detail in four years during research period funded by government.

A Study on the Inter-Korean Cooperation for Natural Disaster Damage Reduction Using Spatial Information

  • Lee, Sunmin;Song, Taejung;Lee, Moung-Jin
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.163-177
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    • 2019
  • As inter-Korean relations progress, the issue of natural disasters which could directly affect the lives of the people in both Koreas, has not yet been discussed. Considering the current status of inter-Korean relations and the ongoing disaster-related damage in North Korea, it is imperative to establish a technical plan at the pan-governmental level to reduce the damage from natural disasters. The purpose of this study is to secure the Korea Peninsula against natural disasters by organizing South Korea's science and technologies related to natural disasters in order to reduce the damage, and to evaluate the applicability of said technologies. The situation of natural disasters in North Korea for 17 years has been summarized and reclassified based on eight types of natural disasters. Technologies related to natural disasters in South Korea were also investigated and reclassified. Based on the data, a priority evaluation was performed and the prioritization of technology application for each natural disaster type in North Korea was calculated through a quadrant analysis. As a result, the three major categories of high-priority technologies were classified as natural disaster monitoring with remote sensing and spatial information technology, construction of research basis and database based on geographic information system (GIS) and integrated management of complex natural disasters.

A study of extract common I/O parameter for design of complex disaster prediction model (복합재난 예측 모형 설계를 위한 공통 입출력 파라미터 도출 연구)

  • Lee, Byung-Hoon;Lee, Byung-Jin;Oh, Seung-Hee;Lee, Yong-Tea;Kim, Kyung-Seok
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.34-41
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, the I/O parameters of existing predictive models were analyzed to construct a composite disaster prediction model that incorporates a previously developed natural disaster prediction model and a prediction of social disaster prediction models. A complex disaster prediction model indicates a combination of multiple disasters, not a single disaster. Such a complex disaster was mainly linked to a social disaster caused by natural disasters resulting from natural disasters, so it conducted a study of natural disasters and social disaster prediction models. Several estimates were analyzed based on several predictive models of prediction models, and the I/O parameters applied universally were derived by the types of disaster types. In this paper, It will help develop a study aimed at building a complex disaster prediction model.

The Case Study of Bangladesh for International Cooperation on the Vulnerable Region of Natural Hazard (자연재해 증가 지역의 국제협력 지원 방안을 위한 방글라데시 사례 연구)

  • Lee, Jawon
    • Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.340-351
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    • 2013
  • International society has been making a lively discussion about natural disaster by climate change to mitigate natural hazard centering around intra-government association. This study dealt with a strategic mitigation and technical adaptation to support a habitual natural disaster region such as Bangladesh in terms of international cooperation for assistance to protect against the natural hazard. The land-cover on scale of one third of Bangladesh is situated lower than sea level that causes habitual flooding accident which gets increasing in the strengthen every single year. Most of people lives around exterior sea coast being faced with disaster of abnormal storm forming every three year cycle. Especially, the socio-economic status of the people in the coast is usually very low, and it need to get help from international cooperation aid. Therefor, the case study for the vulnerability of natural disaster in Bangladesh on geographical analysis is meaningful to join the international cooperation taking a part of role on technical support and education for adaptation of the natural disaster.

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Trends of Deaths and Missings Caused by Natural and Sediment Disasters in Korea (자연재해와 산지토사재해에 의한 희생자 수의 변화경향)

  • Lee, Chang-Woo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.94 no.4 s.161
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    • pp.252-257
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    • 2005
  • The study on long-term change of natural and sediment disasters such as landslides and debris flows is not thoroughgoing enough in spite of increasing of concern for disaster. Therefore, the change of natural and sediment disasters was investigated with the number of victims caused by both disasters and the ratio of sediment disasters for natural disasters was compared. The number of victims by sediment and natural disasters has apparently been decreasing despite of the change of rainfall pattern. The number of victims was changed to 140 persons/year in the late 1990s from 250 persons/year in the 1970s of natural disaster and that of sediment disaster to 20 persons/year in the late 1990s from 60 persons/year in the late 1970s. Furthermore, the ratio of sediment disaster victims to natural disaster victims has decreased from 2/7 in the 1970s to 2/15 after 1980s. But, the system of sediment disaster management and new soil erosion control works tough introduction of watershed management concept are requested because of increased landslide area in recent years (206ha in 1981 $\rightarrow$ 688ha in 1999).

Factors Affecting Potential Disaster Damage and Perceptible Stress Influencing Evacuation Behavior (재난피해가능성불안 및 지각된 스트레스가 대피행동에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • JI, Youngil;Moon, YooMi
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.594-601
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to identify factors affecting anxiety about disaster damage potential in Gyonggi-do and evacuation behavior that influences evacuation behavior. Method: Multiple regression analysis was performed to test the hypothesis and to analyze the influence of anxiety about disaster damage potential and perceived stress, and analyzed similarity in correspondence between age and anxiety about disaster damage potential. Results: The anxiety about disaster damage potential of a group vulnerable to safety and anxiety about disaster damage potential of disaster system collapse were perceived in close proximity. Disaster system collapse, evacuation life, and natural disasters were found to be factors affecting perceived stress. Stress and natural disasters were found to be influencing factors on evacuation behavior. Conclusion: The necessity of managing stress was confirmed since anxiety about natural disaster damage potential and stress affect evacuation behavior. The recent experiences of heavy rain disasters indicate that the anxiety about disaster damage potential is expected to increase. The findings also indicate the importance of preventive planning and psychological management to manage the anxiety about disaster damage potential.

Performance Evaluation System Framework for Natural Disaster Research and Development Projects (자연재난분야 연구개발 사업의 특성을 고려한 성과지표 및 성과평가체계 개발)

  • Kim, Du-Yon;Kim, Sang-Bum;Kwak, Hyun-Jun
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.118-129
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    • 2013
  • Due to the recent surge in natural disasters, with rising social concerns, investment on research & development (R&D) project in natural disaster mitigation area is continuously increasing. However, current R&D performance management system of natural disaster mitigation area does not properly reflect characteristics and social ripple effects of R&D projects. It is indicated that mainly due to the current performance index consists of easy-quantification factors and the performance evaluation system adopts simple aggregation method. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to develop new performance evaluation system considering characteristics and social ripple effects of natural disaster mitigation R&D projects. To this ends, this study derived 3-dimensional performance measurement index through literature review and natural disaster mitigation R&D projects analysis. Finally, based on the derived performance measurement index, this study suggested new and effective performance evaluation system for natural disaster mitigation R&D projects.