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Disaster resilience is increasingly recognized as a critical capacity for communities to withstand and recover from hazardous events. Communities that demonstrate higher resilience typically experience reduced impacts from disasters and shorter recovery periods. Building a resilient community to disasters has become a primary objective of disaster management aimed at absorbing and mitigating the adverse effects of disaster. This study measures the level of community resilience to natural disasters in South Korea by providing a set of indicators assessing resilience in terms of human, social, economic, environmental, and physical capacity aspects. This study develops a methodology to aggregate constructed disaster resilience index for local communities and analyze data from 229 local municipalities to measure their resilience level. This study compares community disaster resilience level between 2010 and 2020, and employs the aggregated disaster resilience index to explore its relationship with disaster losses in the country. The findings reveal geographic variation in disaster resilience across South Korea. By identifying the extent of community resilience within this framework, this study offers disaster management officials or decision-makers with strategic insights for enhancing community resilience and minimizing the negative impacts of natural disasters.
| Keywords | Community disaster resilience; index; measurement; Korea |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | Yes |
