Background and Objective
Background of This ResearchTotal installation capacity of wind power plants in South Korea reaches 174MW in 2007. According to the installation plan of Korea Institute of Energy Research and Core research center of wind power, the total capacity is expected to rise into 1,404MW. Although there are several advantages in the wind power such as clean energy, substitution of imported fossil energy, and spill-over effects, there are various kinds of disadvantages including noise, disturbance of ecosystem, transformation of landscape, and etc. Especially, many of large wind power plans have been constructed in the mountainous areas, which may cause big impacts on the ecosystem as well as natural landscape. In the future, the number of wind power plants which will be built in the mountainous sites will increase considerably. Therefore, we need to investigate the possible impacts of wind power constructions on the economic as well as environmental aspects.
The Korean government has introduced the Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) in public organizations. This plan can help maintain the core functions of public organizations in emergency situations. Based on this recognition, it became mandatory to introduce COOP in public organizations, including local governments, in 2017. However, many public institutions have experienced difficulties in introducing COOP. In this study, we focused on the reasons for such difficulties in local governments and suggested policy recommendations. We reviewed COOP applications in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and conducted interviews with experts who participated in the process of building COOP within local governments. The results showed that the mismatch between other disaster preparation manuals and COOP and the absence of standard COOP plans for local governments constitute the main barriers. For a better and wider application of COOP, the Korean government should provide more practical standard guidelines based on damage estimation and coordination with existing other manuals. Based on the results, we present a Korean standard COOP for local governments using the scenario and checklist methods.
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