A Study On Evaluating And Responding To Community Vulnerability

The arrival of "High-Risk Society" has revealed clearly the emergence of various "Non-traditional" languages. Previous regularized response strategies have begun to lose their effectiveness in the face of irregular security threats. The orientation and object of security has evolved from focusing purely on the nation state towards global, community, and individual security. All types of security events are increasingly demonstrating new practical logic in the field of non-traditional security, and security has become a scarce "resource" vital for everyone. In particular, community security is at the core of all public administration work, and is the basis for "human security.’ As such, approaching community vulnerability research from a non-traditional security perspective has considerable value. Similarly, examining non-traditional security from a community vulnerability perspective also provides new insights for security. Community vulnerability studies are not just the foundation of the above-mentioned research, but also directly influences the feeling of security of members of a community as well as the ability to achieve security in a community. In order to protect community security, we should first evaluate the degree of hazard and the community’s ability to perform disaster relief. Based on the foundation of reaching a governance consensus, we should design governance strategy for community vulnerability. Initiating evaluation at the community level and establishing a system for evaluating community vulnerability will help raise risk management and public crisis management capacity, thereby forming a new paradigm for security governance.In order to comprehensively and universally describe community vulnerability, this paper examines two kinds of communities in Hangzhou—one old and one new—as representative examples. The paper defines the new connotation of community vulnerability,and evaluate from the three dimension—disasters, disaster load-bearing, and disaster relief capabilities.By assessing causes of security threats, disaster load-bearing systems, and disaster relief capacity, the paper want to excavate the existing predicaments facing the provision of community security, and attempt to explore a path for a governance strategy.