Abstract
Recently, sudden natural disasters strike worldwide frequently, seriously prevent the economic development and increasing living standard of people in affected countries. Emergency management is gradually being seen as the most important task by all the governments, the academia has also conducted in-depth exploration and rational thinking. Based on USA and Japan the two developed countries’ emergency practices, summaries and analyses the successfully experiences build up during the emergency management mechanism process, and gives some proposal to help our country’s emergency management practitioners.
Highlights
Along with the rapid development of modern technology and materialize culture, natural disaster speed up its damage to human nature
During the past half century, the world has suffered all kinds of natural disasters, such as the Indonesia tsunami, The Republic of Guatemala’s flood, Kashmir earthquake and Hurricane Katrina etc., many people and huge economic loses were caused, it had seriously prevent the development of people’s living standard and social development
Sitting at the top of US Emergency Management (EM) system is the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), which was created by the Federal government after the “9.11”event that combines 22 different existing federal agencies, employs over 170,000 staffs, its budget reaches 40 billion US dollar every year
Summary
Along with the rapid development of modern technology and materialize culture, natural disaster speed up its damage to human nature. China being one of those few countries that has been critically affected by natural disasters, its frequency and severity ranked highly. Natural disaster especially severe natural disaster which is one of the most significant public events would be closely linked to country’s safety and ruling party leaders’ position. Every government gives high propriety to its Emergency Management (“EM”). EM is a hot topic in economic management science, information science, statistic and science of disaster and so on. Our country’s EM research is currently only at the early stage, it has built the basic structure, but theory and practical wise are significantly lacked behind those developed countries. Authors of this article plan to improve China’s EM system by compare US and Japan’s EM experiences and lessons
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