Abstract
Catastrophe risk governance has become one of the key issues affecting global sustainable development. As great changes have taken place in the global social ecosystem, the degree of interconnection between different regions in today’s society is much greater than ever before. Various types of contact networks, e.g., the production chain and supply chain, have been created, which provide diversified channels for the spread of catastrophe risk across time and space. In the context of interconnection, this paper first analyzes the drastic changes of the current disaster risk system. Severe catastrophe risk has posed a great threat to the highly growing international trade, and has also tested the capabilities of national comprehensive disaster defense. Thus, this paper analyzes the main characteristics of China’s comprehensive disaster defense capability, including physical, social, and humanistic defense capability. Finally, this paper puts forward the key points to resolve catastrophe risk from the perspective of decision-makers, including improving the decision-makers’ ability to study and judge the catastrophe chain and the impact of catastrophe, and the national resource reserve capacity to cope with the catastrophe.
Highlights
Abdollah ShafieezadehWith the rapid development of urbanization, industrialization, informatization, global climate change, and agricultural modernization [1,2,3], the Earth’s system has entered the Anthropocene era [4,5]
In the Anthropocene era, affected by various problems related to population, resources, environment and development, the disaster risk system is undergoing great changes in evolution processes and occurrence mechanisms [6]
Can the existing disaster defense capabilities of human society effectively deal with catastrophe risks (Figure 1)? The goal of this paper is to take the theoretical and practical development of China’s comprehensive disaster defense capability as an example, and try to find out how to prevent and resolve catastrophe risk in the context of interconnection between
Summary
With the rapid development of urbanization, industrialization, informatization, global climate change, and agricultural modernization [1,2,3], the Earth’s system has entered the Anthropocene era [4,5]. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1793 ever before, which have affected the social ecosystem through a comprehensive process in the form of dynamic and non-dynamic effects [15]. Can the existing disaster defense capabilities of human society effectively deal with catastrophe risks (Figure 1)? The goal of this paper is to take the theoretical and practical development of China’s comprehensive disaster defense capability as an example, and try to find out how to prevent and resolve catastrophe risk in the context of interconnection between. The various types of contact networks have been composed of different regions in the process of globalization, and the connections between different regions are often random. With the increasing complexity of contact network systems, they will inevitably lead to the instability of the global social ecosystem. While globalization enhances the connectivity and strength of the global social ecosystem, new connections among the components of the global social ecosystem will be continuously generated, leading to increasing systemic risks [15]
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