Author(s)

Shiqi Shao

School of Public Management/Emergency Management, Research Center of Emergency Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

Local government is the primary perception and responder in emergency management, and their ability to deal with emergencies and the response to the level of good or bad, is directly related to the organization that can effectively reduce the economic losses caused by the incident and casualties. Therefore, it is very important to find out the problems in the emergency management of the local and take corresponding countermeasures to improve the emergency management level of the local government. Based on the theoretical framework of cross-organizational cooperation and the empirical research, this paper describes the inter-organizational cooperation situation of local government emergency management and finds out the key factors that affect the cross-organization cooperation of local government. Finally, some suggestions are put forward for the emergency management of local government in China.

Emergency Management, Cross-Organizational Cooperation, Local Government

Shao, S. (2017) Problems and Countermeasures of Local Emergency Management in China. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 5, 64-79. doi: 10.4236/jss.2017.55006.