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This paper analyzes the temporal and spatial trends in hazardous material releases in the state of Texas between 2008 and 2013. The analysis was reserved to the top 10% of National Response Center related spills and incorporated the use of basic statistics and spatial analysis tools. A correlation was identified between the number of spills reported and the Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment rates. Additionally, this research identified Equipment Error as the leading cause of an incident, contrary to previous analysis determining that Human Error was the main cause. Spatially, incidents are more frequently reported near the Gulf of Mexico, with a slight significance to the Dallas-Ft. Worth region in 2011. A positive correlation was identified between the population count of minority census groups per county and the number of chemical releases per county.

The purpose of this study is to seek for the core system in managing disasters: Failure of the Sewol disaster response system to manage crisis effectively and efficiently. This paper suggests five elements which form a core system as follows; value, institution, leadership, devotion, and expertise. First, it is the value that determine the direction of system operation in some situations like disaster, public issue, and events, etc. The fundamental problems of crisis and emergency management came from a lack of value and philosophy for disaster management in the case of Sewol ferry disaster. Second, for realizing the desirable value, a system has to make or build up an institution which can be accepted socially and legally by society members. In the case of disaster response in Korea, there are lots of ad hoc institutions of disaster response in the time of accident. Third, leadership is essential to the success of any system which should accomplish a common task. Government leaders dealing with catastrophic disaster, however, failed to work out a new framework to tackle catastrophic disasters. Fourth, devotion is a positively necessary element for completing the system's work. But disaster response actors did not get the devotion to their job and not receive training in maritime rescue operations. Finally, as jobs becomes more specialized, system become increasingly dependent on expertise to achieve goals. In the case of disaster management system, there was no expertise in the related and responsible government organizations.

We have attempted to define risk assessment‘Risk Assessment’ related with the ferrySewoldisaster. It’s possible to make a decision for crisis management, based on the result of risk assessment of disaster, hazard, vulnerability, capacity and disaster risk and secondly, we have known risk analysis and risk evaluation. The result of risk assessment is to be utilized in decision making for the disaster management, and many activities and projects are to be implemented by risk assessment. Risk Assessment could provide risk information for disaster authorities, and also other policy-makers, public interest groups, civil society organizations and other public or private stakeholders involved or interested in the management and reduction of disaster risk. This paper will research what make ferry disaster and what kinds of impacts there are related with risk assessment. This paper draws the evidence gathered by newspapers and reports of Government. The objective of this paper is intended to inform a specialist and provides information how to prevent similar ferry disaster in the future. There was a terrible accident in Korea on 16 April 2014 and over 300 people were died and missing. As the results of risk assessment, there were many problems which are overloaded, Captain lee, radio call, sharp turn, evacuation order, excessive cargo and a failure to tie, rescue, Sewol ferry age, Korea culture, disaster safety education, temperature. But we have had capacities related with rescues that are fishing boats and other commercial vessels. When disaster will be occurred, the capacities play an import role to overcoming disaster. We have experienced economic and environmental impacts, total impact is 2 trillion 1,562 hundred million won and have experienced political and social impacts as South Korea society have been sucked into a black hole.

As globalization has unfolded, the number of transnational corporations (TNCs) has dramatically increased. Operating under multiple national jurisdictions, TNCs are often not fully regulated by policies in the countries where they operate. This paper will mainly discuss how civil society organizations stepped in with alternative regulatory instruments to regulate the employment of child labor in the global supply chain, especially in the carpet and garment industries. Known as “civil regulation,” it attempts to govern corporate affairs and global firms’ supply networks addressing labor practices, environmental performance, and human rights issues. Since there is no universal framework to classifying types of civil regulation, several available models are consolidated into a single one. This research has the opportunity to contribute to establishing a more clearly outlined conceptual framework of civil regulation.

While the literature includes an abundance of descriptive reports on health care delivery models, a dearth of information exists on the evaluation of the models. In addressing that need, this paper examines the Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration (SPARC) model that was customized for Fulton County, Georgia. The model centers on an innovative and collaborative approach in addressing health disparities. With the information available to us, our goal was to assess the implementation and evaluation of the intervention – the latter centering on whether or not the program’s implied intent (sickness prevention) was actually achieved. Much effort was made toward that end, but although there is convincing evidence for the effectiveness of grouped interventions, the CDC’s report on Community Guide to Preventive Services, which informs direction and resources for “evidence-based” community interventions, has not yet evaluated models of delivery that provide multiple interventions. Evidence exists in this, and other similar programs, for services provided which are intended to achieve sickness prevention (the obvious intent of SPARC). We examine the goals, implementation and, using Pressman and Wildavsky’s model on program implementation, the methodological aspects of SPARC-Fulton County and provide an assessment on data and summary information which is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of such programs.