Enhancing Local Disaster Management Network through Developing Resilient Community in New Taipei City, Taiwan

Kai-Yuan Ke, Yong-Jun Lin, Yih-Chi Tan, Tsung-Yi Pan, Li-Li Tai and Ching-An Lee
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Kai-Yuan Ke: Center for Weather Climate and Disaster Research, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
Yong-Jun Lin: Center for Weather Climate and Disaster Research, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
Yih-Chi Tan: Center for Weather Climate and Disaster Research, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
Tsung-Yi Pan: Center for Weather Climate and Disaster Research, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
Li-Li Tai: Center for Weather Climate and Disaster Research, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
Ching-An Lee: Fire Department, New Taipei City Government, 220225 New Taipei City, Taiwan

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 15, 1-19

Abstract: Large-scaled disaster events had increasingly occurred worldwide due to global and environmental change. Evidently, disaster response cannot rely merely on the public force. In the golden hour of crisis, not only the individuals should learn to react, protect themselves, and try to help each other, but also the local school, enterprise, non-government organization (NGO), nonprofit organization (NPO), and volunteer groups should collaborate to effectively deal with disaster events. New Taipei City (NTPC), Taiwan, was aware of the need for non-public force response and therefore developed the process of enhancing local disaster management networks through promoting the resilient community since 2009. The concept of a resilient community is to build community-based capacity for mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery in an all-hazards manner. This study organized the NTPC experience and presented the standard operation procedure (SOP) to promote the resilient community, key obstacles, maintenance mechanism, and the successful formulation of the local disaster management network. The performance of the promotion was evaluated through a questionnaire survey and found that participants affirmed the positive effect of building community capacity through the entire process. In general, the resilient community as the center of the local disaster management work is shown promising to holistically bridge the inner/outer resources and systematically respond to disaster events.

Keywords: resilient community; disaster management; all-hazards approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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