A measurement of community disaster resilience in Korea. Issue 3 (3rd March 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yoon, D.K.; Kang, Jung Eun; Brody, Samuel D.
• Is Part Of: Journal of environmental planning and management. Volume 59:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 436
• Page End: 460
• Publication Date: 2016-03-03
• Subjects: Community Disaster Resilience Index -- Korea -- geographically weighted regression; City planning -- Periodicals; City planning -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 333.7
• DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2015.1016142
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0964-0568

Abstract

Abstract : Building a community that is resilient to disasters has become one of the main goals of disaster management. Communities that are more disaster resilient often experience less impact from the disaster and reduced recovery periods afterwards. This study develops a methodology for constructing a set of indicators measuring Community Disaster Resilience Index (CDRI) in terms of human, social, economic, environmental, and institutional factors. In this study, the degree of community resilience to natural disasters was measured for 229 local municipalities in Korea, followed by an examination of the relationship between the aggregated CDRI and disaster losses, using an ordinary least squares (OLS) regression method and a geographically weighted regression (GWR) method. Identifying the extent of community resilience to natural disasters would provide emergency managers and decision-makers with strategic directions for improving local communities' resilience to natural disasters while reducing the negative impacts of disasters.