Characteristics Of Natural Disasters Research Articles

Natural disaster management in Korea: Is it the “best”, or is it just “satisfactory”?

AbstractThis research has examined the reality of Korean natural disaster management by considering four analytical factors, namely, the characteristics of natural disasters, government policy, business strategy, and volunteer activity, towards drawing lessons for the international community. Qualitative content analysis has been used to test the following hypothesis: “If Korean natural disaster management is not the best but only satisfactory, then there will be implications for the international community.” The success and failure of Korean natural disaster management has been compared from the international perspective. By accepting the hypothesis, this research maintains that the Korean field of natural disaster management has always been surrounded by certain barriers, according to the bounded rationality of human beings.

Forecasting the Conditional Probabilities of Natural Disasters in Canada as a Guide for Disaster Preparedness

A variety of natural disasters occur in Canada. Yet apart from simple ``return period'' calculations, no apparent research seems to have made systematic use of the OCIPEP database on all natural disasters in Canada over the period of 1900 to 2000. This paper (a) describes the main characteristics of natural disasters in Canada, and (b) presents a methodology that is a first attempt to use the database to forecast conditional probabilities of each type of natural disaster. The forecast probabilities can then be used to work out the expected social costs of each type of natural disaster. The expected costs in turn suggest what kind of policy priorities are indicated for disaster preparedness. The key results of this methodology are that Hydrometeorological Disasters are increasing over time and of these, the ranking in order of priority for preparedness should be droughts, heat waves, floods and ice storms.