Development of Web-based Framework forDisaster Management Collaboration Network

• Main Authors: Yi-huang Tao, 陶翼煌
• Other Authors: Chih-hung Sun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45157642045197102266

博士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 地理環境資源學研究所 === 95 === Facing disaster phenomena, human being has been putting efforts in activities of designing strategies and investing resources in the life cycle of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery, in order to reduce the impact brought by it. When an organization attempts to manage disaster prevention and response activities, the concept of “disaster management” is formed. Due to the uncertainty and variation in the magnitude, scale, location, and duration of time of disasters, the related human activities often involves with multi-phases of it’s life cycle, multi-jurisdictions, multi-level governance, multi-agencies, and their knowledge, responsibilities and resources. These standalone activities fragmented by organization’s responsibility, time and space precede individually and become difficult to manage. As a result, the disaster prevention and response activities cannot perform as a whole. Failure of performing “system” function is the cause. Therefore, human society should response to it in the systematic thinking and action as a counter-strategy for the management against disaster. This research argues that the internet era has brought the new opportunity. A methodology based on the system analysis on characteristics of disaster management, isolated and fragmented activities in the realm of time and space can be integrated into a whole system via the infrastructure of internet, forming a disaster management collaboration network (DMCN) should be developed. This research first pointed out the problem of disaster prevention and response, the importance of disaster management, then investigated the past works of disaster management in order to discover the inherited difficulties. Based on the findings, the research first discovered the nature of disaster, used the system theory as its core, reviewing the development and principles of management, based on the internet environment, under the guidance of Chinese I-Ching philosophy, proposed the concept of DMCN. From the view of knowledge management, this research combines methods from both system analysis and project management, established a DMCN analysis method. This research also built a disaster management server (DMS) as a tool to facilitate the establishment of the network. This research then applies it to the establishment the DMCN of Taipei city and developed a prototype of an integrated disaster management information system for Taipei city flooding disaster response collaboration, in order to validate this method. The result of this research shows users of this prototype system based on DMCN can easily, systematically, and effectively handle his/her knowledge, resources, and activities in this integrated, systematic, and personalized environment. This research has verified and validated that the DMCN analysis method can actually transform the current situation of lacking collaboration into a more effective mechanism, to facilitate the processes of disaster management.