젠더 관점에서 본 재난취약자에 대한 분석 및 지원방안

Abstract

This study aims to understand the present conditions and characteristics of disaster vulnerable people using various disasters-related statistics in South Korea and seek gender-sensitive plans for improvement of disaster vulnerable people in the policies on disaster preparation and management. As a result of an inquiry into the definitions in the laws on disasters and the concept of disaster vulnerable people discussed in domestic and foreign studies for this purpose, there have been discussions on whether the disabled, infants/children, the elderly and foreigners can be considered disaster vulnerable people in a few studies of policies for the preparation of precautions against disasters and disaster countermeasures. However, it was noted that no concept of disaster vulnerable people has been reflected in the details of the Korean basic law for disaster and safety management or policies on disaster management. Therefore, for a more effective disaster safety policy, it is necessary to introduce a concept of disaster vulnerable people legally and study and accumulate data about more various disaster vulnerable groups such as the disabled, foreigners (the weak in language) or children as in foreign countries. Second, as a result of an analysis of the disaster vulnerable people and vulnerability of disaster response through various domestic disaster-related statistics, it is difficult to understand the vulnerability exactly, regarding who are damaged and how much they are damaged from various disasters, and in reality, no concrete gender analysis is conducted, approached from sex-disaggregated statistics or gender perspective. Thus, in order to analyze the impacts of disasters more accurately and establish a policy on the protection of victims of disasters and vulnerable people based on this, it is necessary to make disaster statistics compulsory, which are divided by gender in the occurrence of various disasters, and also, a survey on information about the victims of disasters by age and occupation, damage situations and difficulties in recovery processes should be conducted together.