A Study on the Effectiveness of Promotion of Disaster Resistant Community--TakingTaihe Village in Chiayi County for Example

• Main Authors: Chien-an Tsai, 蔡建安
• Other Authors: Chia-min Chao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59167595640683337005

碩士 === 南華大學 === 環境管理研究所 === 99 === 　　Global warming has led to increasing climate change. One of the examples is Typhoon Morakot severely damaging northern and southern Taiwan in 2009, which led to the most severe casualties and financial loss. However, as long as the scale of disaster or damage expands, owing to the restriction on the factors such as climate, geography, and disaster status, the governmental rescue force cannot immediately arrive at disaster area to save people. Therefore, local residents should jointly take pre-disaster preventive measures and receive training to establish “disaster resistant community system” thorough practical operation, such as planning, learning, and practice. When a disaster takes place, if communities can immediately use available resources and rescue and survival equipment to save themselves, the casualties and loss will definitely be decreased. After years of efforts, the disaster resistant communities jointly promoted by the government, experts, scholars, and communities have achieved significant effect. 　 　　When a major disaster takes place, it is important to effectively achieve the disaster prevention objective of disaster resistant communityies. An empirical study was conducted on Taihe disaster resistant community in Meishan Township to investigate how community residents participated in practice and training during typhoon Morakot. proposed suggestions as reference for future community disaster resistant and disaster reduction.