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- Presents an expandable analysis model interconnecting policy change with long-tailed distributed disasters
- Gives an in-depth look at the evolution and cross-over among natural, technological, and social disasters
- Includes inspirational cases from disaster trajectory, policy impact, and lessons learned from responses
Part of the book series: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book is intended to lay out developing nations’ potential future disaster risk management path, a theoretical policymaking guide, and desirable institutional and organizational transformations. Effective countermeasures included in this book will guide policymakers, capacity builders, and academics in developing nations to avoid the disaster path in the near future at the cost of rapid economic growth that Korea faced.
Authors and Affiliations
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Disaster Preparedness and Coordination Division, Ministry of Public Safety and Security, Sejong, Korea (Republic of)
Yong-kyun Kim
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School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)
Hong-Gyoo Sohn
About the authors
Yong-kyun Kim is the Director of the Disaster Preparedness and Coordination Division for the Ministry of Public Safety and Security in the Republic of Korea. He has worked closely with national and local governments in Asia and Africa, NGOs, and international organizations including the United Nations during his 20-year professional career in the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Ministry of Public Safety and Security of Korea, the National Emergency Management Agency of Korea, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the USA. His research interests are disaster risk management, institutional reforms for effective disaster response, emergency management in complex situations, and climate change adaptation. He has published several articles in the field of disaster risk management and community-based water management.
Hong-Gyoo Sohn was a senior research associate of the NASA-sponsored Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project (RAMP) at the Byrd Polar Research Center of Ohio State University, USA. For the successful accomplishment of RAMP he received the NASA Group Achievement Award. He has been involved with various GIS and remote sensing projects in natural disaster-modeling techniques utilizing national databases, damage identification techniques using geospatial image information, and more. He is a full professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Yonsei University, Korea. He has worked closely with local governments and international organizations, including UNISDR and UNESCAP. He is also working as an expert in “The open-ended intergovernmental expert working group on targets and indicators relating to disaster risk reduction” as a follow-up activity of the Sendai Framework 2015–2030.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disaster Risk Management in the Republic of Korea
Authors: Yong-kyun Kim, Hong-Gyoo Sohn
Series Title: Disaster Risk Reduction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4789-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4788-6Published: 24 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5231-7Published: 04 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4789-3Published: 10 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2196-4106
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4114
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 217
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Environmental Policy, Environmental Management, Sustainable Development