Research On The Crisis Management Of Natural Disasters

China is one of the world’s countries suffered the worst natural disasters. These naturaldisasters which always occurred frequently have influenced political, economic, social stability anddevelopment in Chinese process of transition. The crisis management of natural disastrous hasbrought tremendous pressures and challenges to our government. There are many problems like thathow to deal with natural disasters crisis timely and effectively, how to mobilize more socialcommunities to orderly participate in crisis management in the shortest time, how to develop,integrate, and configure the various social resources, how to improve the government’s ability to dealwith natural disasters crisis, have become hot issues which our government and the community’sconsiderably concerned. Therefore it’s necessary and urgent to focus on this research. The paperstudies the natural disaster crisis from the view of social capital, trying to provide a new perspectiveand some new ways to improve the crisis management of natural disasters.This paper researches and analyses the crisis management of natural disaster in the perspective ofsocial capital by the logical sequence of "define the concept--theory analysis—realisticcontrast--reconstruct the strategy". First of all, it defined "natural disasters”,"public crisis","crisismanagement of natural disasters","social capital" and other related concepts. Second, study ofanalyzing the spontaneous contract and internal connection between social capital and the crisismanagement of natural disasters. It reveals the fact that the government disposes the crisis of naturaldisaster with social capital is feasible and necessary. Then, it analyses Chinese crisis management ofnatural disasters which is lack of social capital, by contrasting the application of social capital in thecrisis management of natural disaster both at home and abroad. At last, put forward a new strategicoption for the crisis management of natural disaster: social capital.