본문 바로가기
  • Home

Improvement on National Crisis and Emergency Management through a Core System: Lesson of the African Swine Fever Disaster

  • Journal of Safety and Crisis Management
  • Abbr : JSCM
  • 2019, 9(2), pp.15-23
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general
  • Received : December 2, 2019
  • Accepted : December 27, 2019
  • Published : December 31, 2019

정성은 1 Kwon Seol A 2

1행정안전부
2충북대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to seek the problem and improvement on the national crisis and emergency management system in Korea through the core system. Based on the lesson of the ASF disaster, this study analyzed the five major elements of the core system : value, institution, leadership, devotion, and expertise. This article suggests recommendations for improving the national crisis and emergency management in Korea as follows; (①value) promoting animal welfare certification policies to spread respect for life, following the method of killing with pre-trainingt, (②prevention) establishing a defense system with North Korea through international organizations, (③preparedness) unification of the crisis warning level in the manual and guidelines, and to raise the crisis warning level when ASF occurs in neighboring countries, (④response) promptly holding Animal Disease Control Council involving livestock farmers to seek expert advice and establish regulations on the extent of preventative killings. (⑤Restoraiton) establishing compensation criteria, including the upper and lower limits for killing compensation, and supporting livelihood security funds before re-entry, (⑥leadership) change of national crisis management system to operate Central disaster and safety Countermeasure Headquarters in social disaster management agencies, (⑦devotion) strengthening disaster capacity of citizens and establishing a cooperative system among governments, corporations and civil society, (⑧expertise) modernization and specialization of livestock farms, expansion of inspection agencies and inspection personnel, expansion of vaccine research institutions and research personnel.

Citation status

* References for papers published after 2023 are currently being built.

This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.