The Research of Debris Flow Disaster Prevention and Response System in Taiwan

Abstract

The Taiwan Disaster Prevention and Response Act had been issued and put into practice on June 30, 2000. Roughly, that the disasters prevention and response system with three levels, namely the organization of central, county, and township. Due to above plans, the Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, become the director organization for the debris flow disaster prevention, for this work promoting smoothly, the Council of Agriculture drawn up debris flow disaster prevention works from February 22, 2002, such as Operating Procedures for Debris Flow Disaster Evacuation, Operating Procedures for Collection and Reporting of Debris Flow Disaster Information, Implementation Guidelines for Debris Flow Disaster Prevention Education and Publicity, Operating Procedures for Forecasting and Warning of Debris Flow Disasters, and Operating Procedures for Prevention of Repeated Debris Flow Disasters and for Recovery and Reconstruction, in order to set up the implementation emergency practice mechanisms of debris flow disaster prevention and response system in each stages, and each kinds disaster prevention and response operation normalizing, combine, coordinate, and practice. Although that carry out already several years, but there were some cognitive problem between each level’s organization exultantly. Thus this research synthetically sums up the experience of carrying out from the aspects of decree, organization, and operation, to inspect and offer the suggestion of making a self-criticism, improving, and defend for the reference of Regional Disaster Prevention and Response Plan.