The 9/21 earthquake in Taiwan: A local government disaster rescue system

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25 引文 斯高帕斯(Scopus)

摘要

This paper employs a three-element model to examine how the disaster rescue system of the government of Nantou County in Middle Taiwan functioned following the earthquake of 21 September 1999. The three elements are information gathering, local government mobilisation, and inter-organisational cooperation. The paper finds that the Nantou County government needs to address many problems associated with these three elements. Disaster information, for example, was not processed instantly because of the destruction of the electricity and telephone systems in the earthquake. Insufficient information caused ineffectiveness in the realms of mobilisation and inter-organisational cooperation. As for mobilisation, while the Nantou County magistrate successfully used specific information to encourage flows of huge resources in the county, he did not successfully mobilise human resources there. With regard to inter-organisational cooperation, myriad voluntary actors and international rescue teams travelled to Nantou County, but the fire and police services experienced cooperation and coordination problems.

原文English
頁(從 - 到)112-136
頁數25
期刊Disasters
34
發行號1
DOIs
出版狀態Published - 2010 1月

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • 一般社會科學
  • 一般地球與行星科學

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