Study On Allocation Model Of Emergency Rescue Resources For Earthquake Disasters

Because of its sudden happening, rapid devastation as well as severe secondaryhazard, Earthquake catastrophe with widespread influence will cause severe damage tohuman lives and property, and sometimes will even bring great challenges to the stabilityof a country and a society. Thus, how to ensure enough supplies for disaster areas timelyand effectively, how to bring down losses to the largest extent is a big problem forexperts on emergency management in recent years.Emergency resource management in earthquake is a systematic process. Thisprocess covers resource collection and emergency plan making phase before earthquake,preparation and response phase during earthquake and recovery supplement phase afterearthquake. All the phases above form a cycle. The optimizing allocation of emergencyresources for earthquake is a basis for early-warning and quick response in earthquake. Inaddition, it is a vital link to perfect emergency management system and facilitatepost-disaster reconstruction in disaster areas. The ability to allocate emergency resourceis directly related to effective response to earthquake and minimize losses. Therefore,research on the model and theory of emergency resource allocation for earthquake,explore resource allocation approaches and methods as well as improve management ofemergency resources have both significance and value in theory and practice to furtherperfect and optimize the allocation model of emergency resources for earthquake.With the theoretical perspective of emergency management of natural disasters andcombined some experience from emergency management practice in earthquake, thisdissertation concludes some theory and practice method as well as some effectiveallocation modes of emergency resources in the light of domestic and foreign countries’experience in emergency management for earthquake, to systematically demonstrateapproaches to optimize the distribution of emergency rescue resources for the purpose ofproviding referential ways, principles and implementation methods of emergencymanagement and allocation of emergency resources for potential earthquakes in thefuture. There are seven chapters in this dissertation. The first chapter introduces theresearch background and briefly summarizes the contents and methods of this dissertation.In the second chapter, the theoretical research base is constructed for the allocation modelof emergency resources in earthquake, including risk management theory, emergencylogistics and resource allocation theory as well as risk division for managing emergencyrescue resources for earthquake. Besides, it summarizes the contents and features ofemergency logistics and analyses the rules and restrictions on the allocation of emergencyrescue resources for earthquake. From the view of demands characteristics for emergencyresources in earthquake, the third Chapter describes its dynamic, complexity andclassification, which provides theoretical bases for constructing emergency resourcesallocation model for earthquake. The fourth chapter explores the problems and limitationin the emergency allocation process; builds the emergency resource allocation model forearthquake which includes the conceptual model of whole process, multi-objectivechoose model and multi-phase dynamic model. Integrating the theoretical research withempirical analysis, the fifth chapter demonstrates the allocation model of emergencyrescue resources for earthquake. In addition, questionnaires are designed to collect dataso as to have exploratory and confirmatory analysis of theoretical models; also somecorresponding conclusions are concluded. Chapter six analyses some public policy issuesfor emergency resources management of earthquake in China. Furthermore, it grasps thetransportation and allocation features of emergency resources for earthquake andproposes creating public policies such as early-warning mechanism, reserve proposal,distribution mechanism and information platform of emergency resources. Based ontheoretical study and empirical analysis of this dissertation, Chapter seven makes asummary and proposes some prospects in the hope that the allocation model ofemergency resources for earthquake will be improved and optimized.