Improvement of Disaster Safety Management System in Local Governments: Focused on the Case Analysis of the Disaster Safety Management System in the United States and Japan

Recently, disasters have diversified and the frequency of occurrence has increased compared to the past. In addition, the improvement of the awareness of disasters by local residents leads to the increase in the demand for disaster safety management administration for local governments, and the role of local governments in disaster safety management is emphasized more. Therefore, this study examined the current state of local governments in order to strengthen the capacity of disaster safety management system of local governments. In addition, the factors of the system and leadership of the disaster safety management system in Japan and the United States, and the human resource capacity factors of the disaster safety management system in the local governments were examined. Through the analysis of overseas cases, the limitations of the disaster safety management system of local governments in Korea were overcome and suggestions for strengthening the capacity were presented by dividing the role of the central government and the role of local governments.