Author(s)

Yiwan Wang

School of Public Administration and Emergency Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

Since 2003, China has made extraordinary achievements in emergency management, and successfully dealt with a large number of unexpected events, especially meteorological disasters. At the same time, a complete system of emergency laws, regulations and plans are gradually established. Through reviewing those official documents, this paper finds out four important principles that typhoon disaster emergency responses follows: warning level based, disaster consequences and types oriented, unified leadership and departmental response, decentralized response and localized management.

Typhoon Disaster, Warning Level Based, Consequences and Types Oriented, Unified Leadership and Departmental Response, Decentralized Response and Localized Management

Wang, Y. (2017) Emergency Response Principles of Typhoon Disaster. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 5, 100-104. doi: 10.4236/jss.2017.51008.