Intergovernmental Relations In Natural Disaster Management

In recent years, China has been frequently affected by natural disasters. According to the "National Comprehensive Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Programme (2011-2015)," who pointed out the risk of disaster, "Twelve Five" period, droughts, floods, storms and other significantly increased, where mudslides, landslides, flash floods showing high momentum. Natural disasters occur with high frequency, variety, and will give rise to new disasters and other characteristics, and these will have a devastating effect on the normal functioning of the social system, the social system had to break the balance of resources between the outside. Government, as the manager of public affairs, how to strengthen current disaster management, is an urgent task at present the government must face. Scholars and experts now come to realize that the current disaster management requires collaboration among government departments, central government departments alone can not be effectively addressed arranged, disasters often cross government boundaries, the need of intergovernmental cooperation between the horizontal and vertical.By Intergovernmental relations angle, combing Chinese institutional framework existing natural disaster management, both horizontal and vertical viewing angle from the government to the earthquake as an example, analysis of the current cooperative activities between the government disaster management process to scholars research on natural disaster management, based on the use of collaborative theory, network governance theory, the theory of the whole government and disaster management theory, practical problems for China’s current Intergovernmental Relations in disaster management and further improve inter-government relations, to improve government in disaster management Mates.Taking the earthquake as a case study, the pre-disaster, emergency relief, and reconstruction of the three phases of the horizontal and vertical management activities intergovernmental elaborate and analysis to identify the presence of the Chinese government of intergovernmental cooperation in disaster management The problem, on this basis, put forward a sound institutional strengthening natural disaster management, and constantly improve the legal basis of intergovernmental cooperation, and build a unified disaster management mechanism, hoping to provide a useful reference for the Chinese government to further enhance the effectiveness of natural disaster management.