Promoting economic resilience

How inter-local collaboration mitigates disaster costs in South Korea

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21600517
AutoresYeonwoo Choi (0009-0006-3054-9098, Yonsei University), Yeon-Woo Choi (Yonsei University), Yuri Mansury (0000-0001-7700-5553, Illinois Institute of Technology), Dong Keun Yoon (0000-0002-1573-5769, Yonsei University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Páginas1-27
Fecha de publicación2025-09-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Environmental Planning and Management (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0964-0568 • E-ISSN: 1360-0559
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09640568.2025.2552819
OpenAlexW4414182142
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas79

As natural disasters grow in scale and impact, the ability of local governments to single-handedly manage disaster recovery diminishes. Collaboration for disaster management has become imperative, making inter-local collaboration a critical component of disaster response strategies. This study investigates how inter-local collaboration – cooperation between jurisdictions – affects resilience to natural disasters, focusing on South Korean communities that experienced severe damage from natural disasters in 2010–2012, 2016, and 2018–2019. Our findings show that collaborative networks reduce post-disaster expenses, with a marked decrease in costs as inter-local collaboration’s degree centrality (DC) and closeness centrality (CC) increase. Low economic performance (LEP) communities particularly benefit from higher DC. In LEP communities with severe disaster impacts, higher CC and eigenvector centrality further reduce recovery costs along with higher DC, emphasizing the need for strategic collaborations with neighboring or centrally-positioned communities. These results highlight the crucial role of interjurisdictional cooperation in strengthening disaster resilience

Disaster mitigation · Emergency management · Natural disaster · Agricultural risk and resilience · Disaster Management and Resilience · Regional resilience and development