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Integrated Community-Based Disaster Management Program in Taiwan: A Case Study of Shang-An Village

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Taiwan has long made efforts to increase community emergency response capability, due to its vulnerability to earthquakes, typhoons, landslides and debris flows. Not until recent major natural disasters, such as the 1999 Chi–Chi Earthquake, Typhoon Toraji and Typhoon Nari, has the government reformed its policy toward empowering the community to take actions in hazard mitigation, emergency preparedness and emergency response. A new initiatve, Integrated Community-Based Disaster Management Program (ICBDM), was launched in 2001 by the Executive Yuan to achieve the goal of strengthening community resistance. The paper, taking Shang-An Village as an example, describes Taiwan’s new community-based disaster management program. Through a participatory process, community residents have learned how to analyze vulnerable conditions, discover problems, develop solutions and establish an organization to implement disaster management tasks. Further, basic response training courses and a disaster scenario were held in order to improve their emergency response capability. Based on the case study, a phased process, including initiation, assessment, planning and practice, is generalized.

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  1. Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, 106, Taiwan, ROC

    Liang-Chun Chen

  2. National Science & Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR), 6F., No. 200, Sec. 3, Sinhai Rd., Da-an District, Taipei City, 106, Taiwan, ROC

    Yi-Chung Liu & Kuei-Chi Chan

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Chen, LC., Liu, YC. & Chan, KC. Integrated Community-Based Disaster Management Program in Taiwan: A Case Study of Shang-An Village. Nat Hazards 37, 209–223 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-005-4669-5

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