Title :
A Study on Urban Early Warning System against Exceptionally Severe Disasters
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Archit., Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China
Abstract :
Currently, due to the frequent occurrence of exceptionally severe disasters in cities, original urban early warning system has been unfit to latest requirements of the times. So a new urban early warning system needs to be constructed on the basis of both the digital technologies and the legal, institutional, fund, personnel and material guarantees of this system. The system construction should start with the establishment of monitoring and early warning mechanism, crisis management mechanism, mechanism of fluent information and its publicity and digital early warning mechanism so as to strengthen the entire construction work.
Keywords :
alarm systems; disasters; public administration; crisis management mechanism; digital technologies; early warning mechanism; exceptionally severe disasters; fluent information mechanism; urban early warning system; Alarm systems; Earthquakes; Economic forecasting; Fires; Floods; Law; Legal factors; Pollution measurement; Power generation economics; Sea measurements;
Conference_Titel :
Information Science and Engineering (ICISE), 2009 1st International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4909-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICISE.2009.188
