자연재해법과 재난관리법의 통합에 관한 연구

Basic meteorological, hydrological, and geological circumstances have caused various natural hazards such as typhoons, floods, drought, landslides, and earthquakes, claiming a lot of deaths and enormous property losses all over the world. Especially, as many urban areas have increased development in hazard prone areas, it is more likely that losses of property from natural and technological disasters are rising. Specifically, according to the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, about 9.6 million U.S. households and property valued at $390 billion currently are at risk from a 1% annual chance of flooding in such locations. South Korea also experiences a number of typhoons, floods and landslides every year. The Korea National Emergency Management Agency concludes that in 2010 a total of 22 natural disasters happened across the country, which resulted in 14life losses and about property losses worth 4O billion won. Therefore, it’s vital to develop and maintain a proper emergency management system for governments to prevent disasters in advance or to reduce the impact of such catastrophes. Emergency management system is dependent on disaster regulations. Regulating mandates helps emergency managers to develop disaster plans ranging from comprehensive emergency management plans to hazard mitigation plans to disaster response plans. This research investigates how our nation’s two disaster laws, Natural Disaster Law and Emergency Management Law are specified and organized, figuring out what kinds of problems those laws have. Furthermore, this study suggests how the laws should be reorganized and what should be added to or deleted from the regulations.