The Case Study Of Improving Emergency Responding Management Capability To Natural Disasters In Ningbo City

In recent years, there is a trend for frequent global natural disasters that they notonly threaten the safety of people’s life and property, but also social stability. Naturaldisasters have become one of the most concerned issues in the world nowadays. Chinais one of the countries that have the highest frequency and variety of natural disasterswith most severe destruction after the disasters. According to statistics from Sina since2000, China suffers more than200billion RMB direct economic losses each year due tonatural disasters. What’s more, in the long run the negative impacts these disasters bringto China are becoming more and more severe as the result of greenhouse effects, acidrain and other weather changes.In February2008, a freezing rain and snow in50years record high covered southChina. On May12th,2008, a tremendous earthquake in Richter8destroyed manypeople’s lives in Sichuan province. Fighting with these natural disasters, Chinese centralgovernment and local municipalities have taken positive initiatives and measures andhave finally achieved success. It is important to learn from these cases because China isnow in a time of frequent natural disasters and what has been learned from the naturaldisasters can provide some practical references for any future prospective disasterspreventions. It’s concluded that a government-centered disaster emergency responsesystem is a must, which should be attached high importance to. Also it is necessary totest this system in practice in order to improve the government capability to deal withnatural disasters so as to maintain people’s benefits and social stability.Ningbo is located in the east coast of China where Typhoon and flood always takeplace. Ningbo government always needs to take quick action towards occurring naturaldisasters, because its emergency responding capability can influence the process andresult of fighting disasters to a large extent. Hence, it is vital to improve the localgovernmental emergency responding capability to deal with natural disasters anddefense level for disasters so that people’s losses can be reduced to as little as possibleand a stable society is maintained, where people people in Ningbo can live safely andhappily. In this essay，Chapter One introduces the research background, significance oftopic choosing and literature review of current research worldwide. Chapter Twoidentifies the basic concepts of the research with case study analysis of disasteremergency response management worldwide and their practical reference values forbeing applied in Ningbo in the field of emergency responding management. ChapterThree draws a conclusion for current situation of natural disaster emergency responsemanagement in Ningbo with a thorough analysis on the reason behind the deficiency ofnatural disaster emergency responding management capability. Chapter Four illustratesa method to enhance emergency responding management capability from fourperspectives: risk awareness, warning mechanism, emergency response andpost-disaster recovery.