2010, Vol.6, No.4

Crisisonomy 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.64

pISSN : 2466-1198 / eISSN : 2466-1201
https://journal.kci.go.kr/cemtp

This study was intended to observe the human resources and service utilization of the elderly who affected by flood disaster and to find factors influencing resource utilization of them. A total of 204 elderly people aged 65 and over who were directly or indirectly damaged by flood disasters in Pyungchang, Inje, and Gangwon province of 2006 and in Goheung and Jeju island of 2007 were selected for the study. A survey research method was used to collect data. According to the study results, elderly people are more likely to use formal human resources than informal human resources. Although the elderly were utilized basic life supplies and medical care and medicine supplies, they would like to utilize more information for family safety, accurate information for the situation, and psychological stabilization in the future. The factors influencing informal human resource utilization were social support as a coping strategy, self-rated health status, income, period of residence. The factor influencing formal human resource utilization was avoidance as a coping strategy, income, living arrangement. For past service utilization, social support and avoidance as a coping strategy appeared as significant variables. For future service utilization, social support as a coping strategy and period of residence were found as significant variables. In conclusion, the characteristic of elderly people should be considered to take measures to provide services to the flood disaster victims.

Crisis management has been mainly handled in the perspective of journalism and public administration. However there has not been reviewed how crisis management research is characterized in spite of 30 years of study in the field. This study looked into theses published in the past 10 years, 2001~2010 in order to understand academic and practical trends. The features resulting from the research can be mentioned as below. Firstly, crisis management theses are more noticeable in specialized graduate schools rather than doctor’s degrees and mater’s degrees in general graduate schools. It means that participated researchers doing theoretical study with hands on experience have been increasing recently. This result shows well that there are lots of interests in crisis management and its practical application in each structure of the society. Secondly, quantitative study with statistical methods such as a survey, interview of experts, experimental research in crisis management is being on the increase. In the early stage of crisis management, qualitative study such as a content analysis, documentary research and case study was mostly carried out. On the other hand, systematic analysis with qualitative study and scientific research method has been recently done in this field. It certainly leads to bring a development of the crisis management research. Thirdly, the field of crisis management is very limited today. Journalism focuses on countermeasures on public, while public administration deals with crisis management system. However it is evident that crisis management is not still positioned as an independent study. Therefore, a fundamental basis of the diverse studies should be settled.

Previous researches on domestic local governments’ disaster management have focused on local governments’ roles, responsibilities, and organization reinforcement and divided disaster management into four stages – prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. However, this study focused on disaster management budgets, in particular, the operation of local governments’ prevention budgets and problems in recovery budgets, and examined the development of existing theories on budgetary decision-making. Thus, focusing on what factors influence local governments’ such attitude, this study attempted to identify the factors through examining local governments’ expectation-disconfirmation. In this process, we regarded local governments’ bureaucrats in related organizations and their councils as major budgetary decision-makers, and tried to analyze how local governments’ expectation-disconfirmation on the use of prevention budget and recovery budget in disaster management affects budgetary decision-making in connection to the local governments’ budgeting. Lastly, based on these results, we made suggestions for improving local governments’ budgetary decision-making in disaster management.