Better Understanding the Catastrophe Risk in Interconnection and Comprehensive Disaster Risk Defense Capability, with Special Reference to China

Abstract

Catastrophe risk governance has become one of the key issues affecting global sustainable development. As great changes have taken place in the global social ecosystem, the degree of interconnection between different regions in today’s society is much greater than ever before. Various types of contact networks, e.g., the production chain and supply chain, have been created, which provide diversified channels for the spread of catastrophe risk across time and space. In the context of interconnection, this paper first analyzes the drastic changes of the current disaster risk system. Severe catastrophe risk has posed a great threat to the highly growing international trade, and has also tested the capabilities of national comprehensive disaster defense. Thus, this paper analyzes the main characteristics of China’s comprehensive disaster defense capability, including physical, social, and humanistic defense capability. Finally, this paper puts forward the key points to resolve catastrophe risk from the perspective of decision-makers, including improving the decision-makers’ ability to study and judge the catastrophe chain and the impact of catastrophe, and the national resource reserve capacity to cope with the catastrophe.

[Retracted] Paradigm and Path of Released Prisoners’ Rights of Rehabilitation from the Perspective of Social Governance

“…Although there is no statistics on the number of people released from prison in 2016, the trend is that the number will be higher than that in 2015. e increase in number will inevitably lead to more and more people facing the problem of returning to society. In fact, a considerable number of people released from prison will lead a very difficult life for a certain period of time after their release [13].…”

“…The increase in number will inevitably lead to more and more people facing the problem of returning to society. In fact, a considerable number of people released from prison will lead a very difficult life for a certain period of time after their release [ 13 ].…”

Understanding and Strengthening the Emergency Management and Comprehensive Disaster Reduction in China’s Rural Areas: Lessons from Coping with the COVID-19 Epidemic

“…With the increasing frequency and complexity of emergencies, emergency management has become one of the most concerned topics in China [10][11][12][13]. Emergency management capacity, as an important aspect of contemporary national governing capacity, requires overall design from the national level, i.e., top-down design is needed [14][15][16][17].…”

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“…Various disaster events have occurred around the world, causing serious economic losses and human casualties on every continent. The World Economic Forum's Global Risk Reports released every January beginning in 2006 show that extreme weather and climate events have far surpassed other risk factors in terms of the likelihood of occurrence and impact (Shi, 2019; Kong and Sun, 2021). Weather and climate events have become the top risk factor affecting human society.…”

“…How to solve risk factors from the perspective of risk governance and promote sustainable development is critical. The expansion of risk and its social amplification are managed daunting challenges for regional development (Kong & Sun, 2021). Therefore, the validity of such risk evaluations and risk management in the perspective of interregional economic linkages is a topic for future research.…”