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The Study on Takaful in Islamic Countries (이슬람국가의 타카풀보험(Takaful) 연구)

  • Kim, Jongwon
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.121-133
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    • 2015
  • A classical commercial insurance, which is used widely as the risk management methods for risk transferring and risk financing, includes the factors of interests, gambling and uncertainty, In 1985 Islamic Fiqc Academy declared that the classical commercial insurance violates the Islamic fundamental principles and beliefs, alteratively recommending a mutual insurance and takaful. A basic principle of takaful is the mutual aid in the Islamic community. On the basis of mutual aid, takaful participants (insurance policyholder) establishes the takaful fund, which is cooperation fund by participant contribution. Takaful fund is separated from shareholders' fund, and the profit and loss of takaful fund are responsible for takaful policyholder. Ownership and operation right of takaful belong to the takaful participants. In takaful, takaful company takes a role of agent or management operator. Comparing to the classical insurance, takaful has the rights of profit dividend, voting of executives, access to accounting books etc. which are additional favors for business company or individuals as takaful participants. Business companies and individuals should consider to use takaful to transfer risk and to enjoy takaful's additional advantages.

A Study on the Special Needs of the Hearing-Impaired Person for Disaster Response (청각장애인 재난대응 욕구에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Soungwan;Kim, Hey Sung;Roh, Sungmin
    • 재활복지
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.63-88
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    • 2017
  • This study evaluated the actual status of special needs of the hearing-impaired person for disaster response. The analysis revealed a significant level of unmet needs in disaster response for hearing-impaired person. The 5 special needs in disaster response include: 1) communication needs, which involve securing the means to make an emergency rescue request and communicating information during the rescue process; 2) transportation needs, which indicate the effective evacuation capacity and the level of training; 3) medical needs, which address the degree of preparedness for physical and mental emergency measures and the delivery of health information for rescue and first aid process; 4) maintaining functional independence needs, which refer to the level of self-preparedness to minimize damage in disaster situations, and; 5) supervision needs, which correspond to a personalized support system provided to disaster-vulnerable groups.

Review of Features and Response system for Unintentional Drowning in Korea (한국의 익사사고 특징과 대응체계에 대한 고찰)

  • Kim, Junggon;Lee, Daesung;Lee, Jaeho;Han, Songe;Ho, Junbae
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.118-129
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    • 2017
  • This paper introduces analyzing the feature of drowning accidents in Korea and reviewing the method for reducing it. A lot of drowning accidents happen at inland areas such as lakes and rivers in Korea. Also, when the accident happens, systematic notify and rescue activity are carried out, but in terms of an accident prevention, there are many problems such as lack of management manpower and the difficulty of continuous monitoring about dangerous areas, etc. In order to resolve the problems about prevention of drowning accidents and the lack of the management, the role of the local governments is important, and using the ICT technology, it is effective to make use of monitoring remotely dangerous areas and developing control technology.

Construction and Monitoring of Test bed in Urban Sediment Disaster Prevention Technology (도심지 토사재해 방어기술 테스트베드 구축 및 모니터링 연구)

  • Lee, Jung-min;Kim, Hyo-Jin;Lee, Yoon-Sang;Jin, Kyu-Nam
    • Land and Housing Review
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.161-169
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    • 2017
  • In this study, sediment transfer and precipitation analysis of the test bed watershed was conducted through the model for the application and practical use of the urban sediment disaster prevention technology, and used this as an aid to design to secure reliability. In addition, conducted the test bed monitoring with the defense technology, analyzed the effect, and established the maintenance plan. Analyzed the change of soil deposition volume through arbitrary slope adjustment for the currently installed stormwater conduit of the test bed watershed. As a result, it is important to reduce the total sedimentation amount in the adjustment of the slope of the entire pipeline, but it is important that the sedimentation depth of each sediment does not rise to such a degree as to threaten the performance of the pipeline. Considering these matters, it is necessary to design the pipeline to prevent the clogging of the soil from the viewpoint of the reliability of the entire pipeline. The sediment disaster defense technology test bed is divided into a new city and an old city, and old city test bed is under construction. The result obtained through the monitoring of the test bed in the new city, sediment disasters such as debris can delay the time to reach the downtown area, and it is possible to secure the golden time, such as evacuation and rescue through the warning system. Also, the maintenance of the test bed application was suggested. Continuous and systematic monitoring is required for securing the reliability of element technology and successful commercialization.

Long-Term Wildfire Reconstruction: In Need of Focused and Dedicated Pre-Planning Efforts

  • Harris, William S.;Choi, Jin Ouk;Lim, Jaewon;Lee, Yong-Cheol
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.923-928
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    • 2022
  • Wildfire disasters in the United States impact lives and livelihoods by destroying private homes, businesses, community facilities, and infrastructure. Disaster victims suffer from damaged houses, inadequate shelters, inoperable civil infrastructure, and homelessness coupled with long-term recovery and reconstruction processes. Cities and their neighboring communities require an enormous commitment for a full recovery for as long as disaster recovery processes last. State, county, and municipal governments inherently have the responsibility to establish and provide governance and public services for the benefit and well being of community members. Municipal governments' comprehensive and emergency response plans are the artifacts of planning efforts that guide accomplishing those duties. Typically these plans include preparation and response to natural disasters, including wildfires. The standard wildfire planning includes and outlines (1) a wildfire hazard assessment, (2) response approaches to prevent human injury and minimize damage to physical property, and (3) near- and long-term recovery and reconstruction efforts. There is often a high level of detail in the assessment section, but the level of detail and specificity significantly lessons to general approaches in the long-term recovery subsection. This paper aims to document the extent of wildfire preparedness at the county level in general, focusing on the long-term recovery subsections of municipal plans. Based on the identified challenges, the researchers provide recommendations for better longer-term recovery and reconstruction opportunities: 1) building permit requirements, 2) exploration of the use of modular construction, 3) address through relief from legislative requirements, and 4) early, simple, funding, and the aid application process.

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A Study on the Safety Measures for Thermal Diseases, Focusing on the Cases of Disaster by Construction Industry

  • Hye-Ryeong O;Won-Mo GAL;Ok-Nam Park;Mi-Hwa JANG;Seok-Soon KWO;Seung-Hyuck PARK
    • Journal of Wellbeing Management and Applied Psychology
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.49-56
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    • 2024
  • Purpose: Construction sites are currently facing a socialization problem as the incidence of thermal disease-related disasters increases due to summer heat waves, exacerbated by factors like the concentration of middle-aged and older workers and global warming. The reason why construction sites are particularly vulnerable to heat waves is that there are many outdoor work, which is the peculiarity of the construction industry, and most of the construction workers are elderly. This study analyzes disaster statistics of workers at construction sites for five years to investigate the occurrence of thermal diseases and analyze factors through disaster cases to provide basic data for future disasters to be reduced. Research design, data, and methodology: According to the Construction Workers' Mutual Aid Association, as of June, more than 60% of the construction workers working in the field were in their 50s and 60s. More than 24% are in their 60s and older. Thermal diseases caused by heat waves occur when exposed to high heat or strong sunlight for a long time, accompanied by headaches and dizziness. The problem is that many elderly people have underlying diseases, so if they lose consciousness, they cannot easily recover and are likely to die. Results: According to industrial accident statistics, 182 people were injured by heat-related diseases in the summer from 2016 to 2021, of which 29 died. In particular, in the construction industry, which has a lot of outdoor work, 87 people were injured and 20 people died. Conclusions: In order to prevent heat diseases caused by outdoor work, it is emphasized that exposure time is controlled, and sufficient rest and hydration are essential. Rest, water, and shade are in line with the three principles.

A Study on the Indemnity System of Fishery Damage by Natural Disasters (자연재해로 인한 어업피해 전보방안에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, In-Yu
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.1044-1057
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    • 2014
  • This study has seen about a indemnity system of fishery damage by natural disasters such as a problem and improvement methods of government aid system and system on accident insurance for cultured fishery products. Recently, in the situation that the demage of aquaculture industry caused by frequent typhoon resulted from global warming and abnormal changed of weather is nasty, the accident insurance for cultured fishery products is necessary to show its true quality and to protect fishers against natural disasters owing to the limitation of government's aid for them. However, The objects of accident insurance for cultured fishery products which is progress on, is too short to apply, so that it is absolutely insufficient to fulfill the demands of culturing fishermen. Therefore, It could be a certain preparation to magnify the range of object items of it and to convert the trial industry being adjusted to limited area into full scale industry to adjust over all nationally. Furthermore, This insurance is complicated and strict to join rather than other insurances. As it can be seen by examples that got in trouble, despite culturing fishermen applied to join the insurance, they took all demage because the insurance was not realized. So, It is hard to say that causes impute the responsibility of it to the authority of insurance, not culturing fishery. They should simplify the registration process, limit the period each registration process and consider a countermeasure to complete it. Concerning compensation for the loss, agriculture part is easier to investigate the loss due to remained dead crop damaged by natural disaster, meanwhile, in fishing part, especially in case of cultivation of fish, it is difficult to investigate the loss and demage because crops are blown all together with typhoon when it comes plus the facilities of them are also very old. Consequently to solve the problem needs more positive attitude as it is policy insurance.

Development of Guidebook to Support Victim's Life Recovery and Improvement of Domestic Earthquake Damage Recovery through Earthquake Damage Cases in Korea and Japan (국내외 지진피해 사례를 통한 국내 지진피해 복구 상의 개선방안과 피해자 생활복구 지원 가이드북 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Su-Ran;Kim, Hye-Won
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.470-484
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    • 2020
  • An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 occurred on November 15, 2017 in Pohang, which caused the damage to buildings and facilities. The earthquake displaced more than 1,700 people. After the Pohang Earthquake, immediate emergency, such as the damage survey and running of shelters have been executed appropriately. However there have been issues with subsequent restoration measures, such as the provision of temporary housing and delivery of natural disaster allowance. As there was inadequate government advertisement about the natural disaster allowance, victims of the earthquake could not receive tangible help. In Japan on the other hand where earthquakes are frequent, post-earthquake restoration protocols are planned well in advance. For example, Japanese earthquake victims are provided with a guidebook outlining different types of government aids available for them so that they can rapidly access government aid. In this study, we refer to the case of Pohang earthquake to analyse the problems in the national earthquake restoration plans and propose how they can be improved by comparing it to Japanese post-earthquake case and a Korean equivalent should be developed, to aid Korean earthquake victims to return to their every life as soon as possible.

Building a Flood Database and Its Utilization to Reduce Flood Risk (수해시 피해경감을 위한 정보의 정비 및 활용)

  • An, Sang-Hyeok;Noguchi, M.
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.33 no.6
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    • pp.681-688
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    • 2000
  • For the reduction of flood damage, it is necessary to analyse shelter activities of local residents and to publish information of floodings, In this paper the control factors of individual refuge activities which are major activities to save peoples lives against floodings have been estimated. Decision making factors for mental refuge activity by the questionnaire survey were classified into two categories: internal and external ones. Furthermore, the behaviour patterns of residents for flood risk related to geographical and social factors were derived by the quantification method n. Since spatial layered information using GIS were corrected and estimated to serve citizen's consensus due to flood disaster, it would aid reduction and minimization of flood risk.d risk.

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A Study on Monte Carlo Simulation by beam scattering in Resin of New Austria Tunnel Method for Safety of Industrial Disaster (산업재해 방지를 위한 New Austria Tunnel Method 수지에서 빔산란에 의한 Monte Carlo 시뮬레이션에 관한 연구)

  • Nam, Sang-Sung;Lee, Joo-Youb
    • Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.444-450
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    • 2013
  • The influences of scatterer and absorber in turbid material by light scattering on silica fume of additive were interpreted for the scattered intensity and wavelength. The molecular properties have been studied by Monte Carlo simulation in resin of New Austria Tunnel Method. It has been found that the effects of optical properties in scattering media could be investigated by the optical parameters(${\mu}_s$, ${\mu}_a$,${\mu}_t$). Monte Carlo Simulation method for modelling of light transport in the civil engineering and construction field was applied. The results using a phantom were discussed that the distance from source to detector is closer, and scattering intensity is stronger with those obtained through Monte Carlo Simulation. It may also aid in designing the best model for coatings and corrosion for the durability of metal constructions.