The evolution of the natural disaster management system in Taiwan |
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| Authors: | Liang‐Chung Chen Jie‐Ying Wu Mei‐Ju Lai |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Graduate Institute of Building and Planning , National Taiwan University , Taipei 106, Taiwan;2. Department of Urban Planning and Disaster Management , Ming‐Chuan University , Taoyuan 333, Taiwan Phone: 886–3–3507001 ext. 3373 Fax: 886–3–3507001 ext. 3373 E-mail: paulwu@mcu.edu.tw;3. National Science &4. Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR) , Taipei 106, Taiwan |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Taiwan is vulnerable to many natural hazards that cause major economic losses. This paper examines the evolution of the natural disaster management system in Taiwan and finds that this system has progressed from an ad‐hoc agency to a full government agency and the evolution had very strong relationship with the occurrence of mass disasters at that time. The first fundamental disaster management law‐the Disaster Prevention & Response Act (DPRA) was promulgated in 2000. It especially encourages the application of hazard mitigation technologies to reduce disaster losses. However, the operation of the disaster management system has continued to experience many problems in the past five years. Much still remains to be done to develop a mature disaster management system in Taiwan. |
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| Keywords: | natural disaster disaster management system Taiwan |
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