China´s Emergency Management Mechanisms for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation

Author

Ang, Huang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Civil Eng., Central South Univ., Changsha, China

fYear

2010

fDate

7-9 May 2010

Firstpage

2403

Lastpage

2407

Abstract

Emergency management mechanisms for disaster prevention and mitigation mainly include three parts: disaster prevention mechanism, disaster guarantee mechanism, and post-disaster relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction mechanisms. Prevention mechanism includes disaster warning mechanism, disaster emergency counterplan mechanism, disaster prevention and mitigation education mechanism. Guarantee mechanism includes organization guarantee, legal guarantee, rescue teams guarantee, rescue equipments support, disaster relief materials guarantee, relief funds guarantee, technical guarantee, international cooperation mechanism, social mobilization mechanism and the development of disaster supplies industry. Post-disaster relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction mechanisms include disaster rescue, repair and restoration, secondary disasters prevention in disaster areas, resettlement of victims and post-disaster assessment.

Keywords

disasters; emergency services; China emergency management mechanisms; disaster guarantee mechanism; disaster mitigation; disaster prevention; disaster relief materials; disaster supplies industry; post disaster assessment; post disaster reconstruction; post disaster rehabilitation; post disaster relief; relief funds; rescue equipments support; rescue teams guarantee; social mobilization; victims resettlement; Earthquakes; Geologic measurements; Geology; Government; Law; Materials; disaster prevention and mitigation; emergency; geological disasters; management mechanism;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

E-Business and E-Government (ICEE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3997-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEE.2010.607

Filename

5592712