The purpose of this study is to suggest disaster resilience reinforcement plan for protection of heat wave disaster vulnerable people. Therefore, it is to reinforce disaster resilience in the central government, relevant Ministries, local government and local society surrounding disaster vulnerable people in order to prevent·prepare·respond to minimize damage of vulnerable people in annually repeated heat wave disaster and recover it to the status before occurrence of disaster and increase resilience.
So, following detailed targets were conducted. First, I investigated concept and types of heat wave disaster vulnerable people and devised heat wave disaster resilience reinforcement plan pursuant to the characteristic of object. Second, I investigated existing heat wave cases in Korea and status of disaster management, deducted problem and implications of domestic heat wave disaster management and suggested improvement plan on current policy and system. Third, I measured relative importance on disaster resilience reinforcement factor for protection of heat wave disaster vulnerable people and devised plan to effectively reinforce heat waver resilience reinforcement for disaster vulnerable people. In order to perform this study, I used literature analysis, case analysis and AHP analysis method.
In this study, heat wave disaster vulnerable people was defined as ‘a group of insufficient physical·economic·environmental condition to prevent·prepare·respond·recover heat wave disaster by themselves for risk of occurring heat wave disaster’. Therefore, it was classified to as the elderly people whose age is over 65, elder who lives alone, children, disabled, economic vulnerable people, people having illness, homeless, people engaged in specific work(farming, fishery, construction·industry site workers).
Disaster, besides its own characteristic, may harm bigger damage to disaster vulnerable people by combining with vulnerability of natural environment and artificial environment of society and vulnerability of disaster vulnerable people. Therefore, in this thesis, disaster resilience was defined as ‘organic power which enable to rapidly recover to the original and normal life by supplementing the vulnerability of disaster vulnerable people in disaster situation from aspect of physical capability, administrative system capability and network capability and minimizing damage influence of disaster’ by connecting disaster resilience and disaster vulnerable people.
Heat wave policy for protection of disaster vulnerable people was analyzed in the aspect of physical capability, administrative system capability and network capability. As a result, in the aspect of physical capability, it was proved that heat wave forecast·warning system, operating heat wave rest area, safety education for expanding infrastructure of responding to heat wave disaster, installation of shade, development of heat wave insurance products are being conducted. In addition, in the aspect of administrative system capability, it was proved that setting up urban planning preparing for heat wave, development·supply of health management guideline for heat wave vulnerable people and heat wave responding manual and securing heat wave disaster budget are being conducted. Finally, in the aspect of network capability, it was reviewed that setting up cooperative network through organizing joint response T/F team for heat wave disaster between institutions, visiting activity of disaster helpers and interaction between local residents are being conducted.
From the result of measuring relative importance between three capabilities, the most important capability among physical capability, administrative system capability and network capability was proved as physical capability. This can be interpreted as once fundamental infrastructure facility to be basic to heat wave disaster management is set up, then the rest policies can be supported. And based on analysis of priority per each measurement factor of physical capability, administrative system capability and network capability, the most important factor was reinforcement of heat wave forecast· warning system(physical capability). Subsequently, reinforcement of interaction between local residents(network capability) and setting up urban planning preparing for heat wave(administrative system capability) were followed by.
In conclusion, in order to reinforce disaster resilience for protection of disaster vulnerable people in case of heat wave disaster, heat wave forecast·warning system reinforcement, reinforcement of interaction between local residents and setting up urban planning preparing for heat wave should be intensified.