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Urban Design Case Review for Mitigation of Sediment Disaster and its Application in Korea (토사재해 저감 도시설계 사례검토 및 국내 적용방안 연구)

  • Lee, Yoon-Sang;Kim, Hyo-Jin;Jin, Kyu-Nam
    • Land and Housing Review
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.201-210
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    • 2017
  • Recently, as a part of measures against large-scale natural disasters in Korea, disaster prevention matters are strengthened in urban planning. With the introduction of the disaster vulnerability analysis system, plans for disaster prevention are being reinforced in urban planning. However, there are many problems to be solved at the stage of operation and practical application of the law. When disasters occur, we are focusing on response and recovery plans. Therefore, it is not enough to construct a comprehensive disaster prevention system to prevent disasters in advance. The established disaster prevention plan is difficult to plan management centered on disaster prevention due to factors such as economic efficiency, convenience, and comfort. This study is a basic study for supporting disaster prevention mitigation plan. For this purpose, the analysis of the actual situation of disaster prevention plan at home and abroad and improvement plan were derived. ased on these improvement plans, we have developed a method to apply the element technology of urban design to the test bed to reduce sediment disaster. The test bed was investigated and examined in the disaster hazard area of Busan and Seongnam city. And the defense technology is applied to the selected site, and the basis of the disaster prevention plan and design is proposed. If the proven techniques are reflected from the urban planning stage, it will be possible to contribute to the mitigation of sediment disaster caused by the city.

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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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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재해로 인한 농작물의 생산비 피해액 산정

  • Shim, Kee-Oh;Lee, Cheol-Kyu
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.2 no.4 s.7
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    • pp.77-85
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    • 2002
  • Korean government compensates 100% for natural disaster relief fund to public facilities, and provides 70 percents to crops through unit price calculation. This study estimated disaster damage according to the standard production cost of crops. Disaster damage was estimated according to the unit price of crops. Those crops are lettuce, pumpkin, red pepper, spinach, tomato and cucumber. As a result, the ratio of natural disaster relief fund to damage was revealed as $3.3%{\sim}13.8%$ with present method, 5.7%{$\sim}34.1%$ with suggested method. Suggested method is the first one considered damage ratio of crops, producer price and raising period.

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.

INFRASTRUCTURE RISK MANAGEMENT IN PREPAREDNESS OF EXTREME EVENTS

  • Eun Ho Oh;Abhijeet Deshmukh;Makarand Hastak
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.83-90
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    • 2009
  • Natural disasters, such as the recent floods in the Midwest, Hurricane Ike in the Gulf coast region (U.S.), and the earthquake in Sichuan (China), cause severe damage to the infrastructure as well as the associated industries and communities that rely on the infrastructure. The estimated damages due to Hurricane Ike in 2008 were a staggering $27 billion, the third worst in U.S. history. In addition, the worst earthquake in three decades in Sichuan resulted in about 90,000 people dead or missing and $20 billion of the estimated loss. A common observation in the analyses of these natural disaster events is the inadequacy of critical infrastructure to withstand the forces of natural calamities and the lack of mitigation strategies when they occur on the part of emergency-related organizations, industries, and communities. If the emergency-related agencies could identify and fortify the vulnerable critical infrastructure in the preparedness stage, the damage and impacts can be significantly reduced. Therefore, it is important to develop a decision support system (DSS) for identifying region-specific mitigation strategies based on the inter-relationships between the infrastructure and associated industries and communities in the affected region. To establish effective mitigation strategies, relevant data were collected from the affected areas with respect to the technical, social, and economic impact levels. The data analysis facilitated identifying the major factors, such as vulnerability, criticality, and severity, for developing a DSS. Customized mitigation strategies that will help agencies prepare, respond, and recover according to the disaster response were suggested.

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Characteristics of Natural Disaster in North Korea (북한의 자연재해 현황 및 특성)

  • Park, So-Yeon;Kim, Baek-Jo;Ahn, Suk-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.21-29
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    • 2010
  • In this study, characteristics of natural disaster and damage in North Korea are examined by using CRED(Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters) data from 1980 to 2008. Result shows that most natural disasters are caused by summertime typhoon and floods with typical floods of 1995 and 2007. Also, synoptic weather condition associated with heavy rainfall in North Korea is analyzed by using satellite image and weather chart provided by JMA(Japan Meteorological Agency). The heavy rainfalls associated with flood in North Korea are mainly related to the effect of Changma front, abrupt development of southeastward moving low over Yellow Sea, convective instability at the edge of North Pacific high and passage of weakened tropical cyclone(typhoon).

An Analysis of the Damage Factor Vulnerability Using a Natural Disaster DB (자연재해 DB를 이용한 피해항목별 취약성 분석)

  • Park, Jong-Kil;Jung, Woo-Sik;Choi, Hyo-Jin
    • 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.02a
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    • pp.505-508
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    • 2008
  • When it grasps a total property losses and relationship of damage factors, there is possibility of reducing the natural disaster damage which is a yearly repeated. Also, checking and supply to vulnerability should be presupposed. This study aims to find out a damage factor vulnerability using a natural disaster database by Park et al(2007). And added 2005 year data to database. Total 10 damage factors are deaths(person, including missing person) injury(person), victims(person), building(thousand), vessel(thousand), cultivated land(thousand), public facilities(thousand), others(thousand), total property losses(thousand). We analyzed of correlation analysis, ratio, population, area, regional character etc for damage factors.

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A study on the Information Management System for the Disaster Prevention (재난방재 통보관리 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Jang, Mi-Ho;Hong, Gyu-Gab;Jung, Ho-Young;Cho, Won-Cheol;Lee, Tae-Shik
    • 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.02a
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    • pp.492-496
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    • 2007
  • This paper focused on "the information management for the disaster prevention", which is based on If, which copes with partial or whole national disaster effectively and which helps to reduce the damage by natural or artificial disasters promptly.

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Does Natural Disasters Have an Impact on Poverty in East Java, Indonesia?

  • SANTOSO, Dwi Budi;AULIA, Dynda Fadhlillah
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.57-66
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    • 2023
  • There is a strong association between poverty levels and the probability of natural disasters. East Java, however, exhibits a distinct pattern. While the rate of poverty is declining, natural disasters are becoming more severe. Considering that East Java is an area with a high risk of natural disasters and a high poverty rate, this study aims to estimate the effect of environmental preservation and the magnitude of the impact of disasters as measured by the Disaster Risk Index (IRBI) on poverty. The 3SLS model is used on secondary data from 38 districts/cities from 2015 to 2021 as an analytical database. Based on the estimation results, there are 3 findings in this study: (i) the role of government, population development, and economic activity have a strong influence on nature conservation; (ii) nature conservation has a strong influence on disaster risk; and (iii) the disaster risk index has a strong effect on poverty. As a result, areas with a high level of disaster risk have a slower rate of poverty reduction. The role of this research is to show the need for the government's role in improving the quality of natural disaster mitigation anticipation, economic activity, and the role of the population in a sustainable manner.