An Exploratory Study on the Determinants of Types of Disaster Management Manuals

This study discussed the effect of the action lists and the level of collaboration on the determination of disaster type in the on-site action manual for disaster management. In this study, a factor analysis was performed on the data from 113 on-site action manuals to derive a group of action lists composed of common factors. Based on the results of the factor analysis, multinomial and binomial logistic regression analyses were performed. The main results are as follows: (1) The multinomial logistic regression analysis showed that, compared to natural disasters, the number of collaborative agencies, medical and health services, and general recovery activities affected the determination of the type of social disasters. (2) Compared to natural disasters, the number of collaborative agencies and general recovery activities were found to affect the determination of major situations. (3) When major situations were included into social disasters, the results of the binomial logistic regression analysis on the type of social disaster were similar to those of the multinomial logistic regression analysis. This study is valuable in that it shows the determinants of types of disaster management manuals through empirical analysis.