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Following an introduction focused on the problems of collective action at the individual and organizational levels, this article assesses the state of Institutional Collective Action (ICA) theory and its utility in the study of crisis management and disaster governance. This assessment proceeds in two stages. First, a critical conceptual review examines the core components of the theoretical framework as presented in its foundational works and elaborated over time. This review addresses issues related to assumptions, parsimony, key concepts, different forms of collaboration risk, the operation of multiple collaboration mechanisms, and mechanism implementation. Second, we present a narrative systematic review of empirical ICA studies of local intergovernmental collaboration in disasters to evaluate how effectively existing research captures the theory’s key components, limitations, and contributions to understanding disaster collaboration. The final section discusses how these limitations constrain ICA’s contribution to crisis management research and practice and outlines directions for future work on preparedness, response, recovery, and post-crisis adaptation.

This study reconceptualizes initial on-site decision-making in disaster response as a structured and legally significant administrative process. It addresses climate crisis conditions marked by nonlinear dynamics, cascading effects, and uncertainty. Using a qualitative analytical approach, it combines administrative law analysis, literature review, process reconstruction, and institutional design. The review focuses on disaster command systems, emergency risk assessment, administrative discretion and legal control, and risk governance. Initial on-site decision-making is reconstructed into three stages: situational awareness, risk assessment, and strategic response determination. The analysis finds that this process integrates factual cognition, normative evaluation, and strategic choice. Yet existing systems reveal decoupling between legal norms and practice, fragmented standards, procedural ambiguity, and unclear responsibility allocation. These weaknesses intensify as uncertainty and interdependent risks increase. The study proposes standardized decision criteria, structured procedures, data-supported environments, and inter-agency coordination. It concludes that institutionalization is essential for proactive and accountable disaster governance.

The purpose of this study is to examine how disaster management systems in Sierra Leone incorporate the principles of inclusive disaster risk reduction (IDRR) and to identify the institutional and governance barriers that hinder the effective inclusion of persons with disabilities. Drawing on the Social Model of Disability, the Rights-Based Approach, and Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction, this study research analyzes policy documents and existing literature to assess disability inclusion across disaster preparedness, response, and recovery systems in Sierra Leone. The findings reveal significant institutional gaps, including limited participation of persons with disabilities in disaster planning, inaccessible early warning systems, inadequate accessibility of evacuation routes and shelters, and weak institutional coordination. The study argues that achieving inclusive disaster risk reduction requires a shift toward rights-based and participatory disaster governance that recognizes persons with disabilities as active stakeholders in disaster resilience. The findings contribute to scholarship on inclusive disaster governance by highlighting institutional barriers to implementing disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction in low-income and disaster-prone contexts.

SDG failure in Asia represents more than a development shortfall. Persistent deficits in governance, health, and institutional capacity accumulate into a slow-onset crisis risk that erodes societal resilience and amplifies vulnerability to economic shocks and climate hazards. This study examines how governance quality shapes SDG progress across 45 Asian countries from 2014 to 2024. Using two-way fixed-effects regressions and System GMM estimation, four of six Worldwide Governance Indicators dimensions, namely government effectiveness, political stability, rule of law, and control of corruption, are significant positive predictors of SDG performance, while regulatory quality is estimator-dependent and voice and accountability remain insignificant. Domain analysis using the Wedding Cake framework shows governance effects strongest in the Society and Economy clusters. Biosphere outcomes show only marginal dynamic governance sensitivity under GMM. Civil service reform remains the most consistently evidenced governance investment available to Asian governments.

Amid rapid digital-economy growth and global value-chain reconfiguration, enhancing manufacturing industrial-chain resilience is crucial, yet its internal mechanisms remain under-tested. Using panel data for 30 Chinese provinces (2014–2023), we construct composite indices for the digital economy and industrial-chain resilience and estimate two-way fixed-effects models to identify impacts and channels. Digital-economy development significantly strengthens resilience (β = 0.798), the largest effect among covariates; economic fundamentals, financial development, population size, and urbanization also contribute positively. Manufacturing agglomeration partially mediates the digital economy– resilience link. Government participation is positively related to resilience (β = 0.606), but it weakens the marginal effect of the digital economy (interaction β = −3.125). These results imply that advancing the digital economy and leveraging agglomeration can bolster resilience, while government involvement should be better aligned with digital development.

This study uses Q methodology to identify distinct perception types regarding community treatment centers (CTCs), a mandatory policy instrument introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea. CTCs repurposed existing accommodation facilities to isolate and monitor patients with mild symptoms. Despite their central role in the Korean quarantine system, public perceptions of CTCs were far from uniform. Through Q sorting with 41 participants and supplementary cultural bias measurement, four perception types were identified: public interest–oriented effectiveness supporters, expertise-based qualified supporters, experience-based pragmatic critics, and autonomy-oriented selective accepters. Perceptions are differentiated along two key dimensions—functional value and governance legitimacy—and cultural bias along the group dimension of grid-group theory appears to align with these differences. Direct policy experience, interpreted through the lens of policy feedback theory, also appears to shape the structure of perception.

Climate change is accelerating the global hydrological cycle, increasing the spatio-temporal variability of precipitation. This study quantifies the long-term variability and seasonal shifts in South Korean rainfall using 50-year (1973–2022) data from 67 meteorological stations. Normality testing via the Shapiro-Wilk test showed that while 80.6% of annual data satisfied normality, 95.5% of monthly data (notably September) did not, necessitating non-parametric analyses. Results indicate a non-significant annual increase of +1.87 mm/yr (p > 0.05) but reveal a distinct seasonal asymmetry. June rainfall, marking the traditional monsoon onset, significantly decreased (-2.53 mm/yr), particularly in inland regions like Andong. Conversely, late-monsoon rainfall in August and September significantly increased, especially in southern coastal areas (+3.64 mm/yr in Seongsan). This shift towards 'early-summer drying' and 'intensified late-summer rainfall' suggests a structural reconfiguration of the East Asian summer monsoon. Consequently, water management policies must evolve from aggregate volume securement to period-specific strategies: mitigating early-season droughts in June and enhancing flood defenses for the late-monsoon period.

Crude oil-contaminated environments require crisis-response strategies that reduce the persistence of hydrophobic hydrocarbons without additional environmental burden. The transfer of oil components into the aqueous phase can improve treatment efficiency, but low solubility and poor dispersion limit biological accessibility. Biosurfactants produced by microorganisms reduce interfacial tension and promote emulsification, linking biological wastewater treatment-based management. Batch experiments evaluated the interfacial activity of biosurfactants produced by indigenous microbial consortia isolated from Kuwait crude oil-contaminated soil. Surface tension was monitored under different hemoglobin concentrations. It initially decreased due to hemoglobin dissolution and microbial activity, but increased after substrate depletion, indicating dynamic interfacial changes. In a crude oil system (1% v/v), the emulsification index increased from 6.97% to 14.36%, and CO₂ production was higher than that of the control. These results indicate that biosurfactants enhance crude oil dispersion and aqueous-phase transfer, supporting their applicability in biological wastewater treatment-based crisis-response strategies.

Pharmacological intervention is necessary to manage dyslipidemia in the elderly. This study aims to identify factors affecting medication adherence in elderly with dyslipidemia. This study used data from the 2024 of the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES IX). A total of 887 subjects fulfilled the selection criteria. Data were analyzed with SPSS 29.0 complex sample software, employing the Rao-Scott chi-square test and simple/multiple logistic regression. The medication adherence rate was 89.8%. Factors affecting their medication adherence were obesity and underlying diseases. Medication adherence was significantly lower among those with a normal body weight and no underlying diseases compared to those who were obese or had comorbidities. Given that dyslipidemia elderly with normal weight or no underlying diseases may perceive themselves as less susceptible to illness, strategies are needed to enhance their awareness of disease risks and the importance of consistent medication.

This study examined satisfaction with outpatient service utilization (in this study, outpatient care satisfaction) using nationally representative data from the 2018 and 2024 Medical Service Experience Survey in Korea. A total of 5,570 participants in 2018 and 6,631 in 2024 were included in this study. Complex samples analyses were conducted, including descriptive statistics, Rao–Scott chi-square tests, and multivariate logistic regression. The proportion of participants reported that they were satisfied with outpatient service increased from 86.9% in 2018 to 92.9% in 2024. In both years, treatment outcome satisfaction was the strongest factor associated with outpatient care satisfaction (2018 AOR: 15.076; 2024 AOR: 15.489), followed by nursing service satisfaction and facility service satisfaction. Physician satisfaction was not significant in 2018 but became significant in 2024. Among individual factors, perceived health status was significant in 2018, while residential area and educational attainment were significant in 2024. Overall, healthcare service-related variables showed stronger associations with outpatient care satisfaction than socio-demographic characteristics. These findings provide important evidence of the capacity to respond effectively to crises resulting from evolving trends in the healthcare environment.