Metropolitan Public Emergency Management Issues And Countermeasures

With the development and social progress of human history, the city isincreasingly becoming the center of wealth creation, at the same time, cities are facingincreasing risks to generate more and more attention should be wary of public safetyissues. German sociologist Beck has said that society is now in the process oftransformation from an industrial society to the risk society, the risk beyond people’scontrol. Baker believes that the risk of civilization we live on the volcano, thepotential risks threatening stage is nearing completion, is invisible becomes visible.Wanton destruction of the human environment, barbaric obtained from natural,triggering more frequent natural disasters. Modern society has already entered theperiod of high risk, social risk with a sudden, diffusion, destructive, derivative,intensive, continuity, and social characteristics.China showing a rapid development of the socio-economic characteristics,urbanization continues to accelerate. On the one hand, natural disasters, productionsafety, environmental pollution and other security incidents, on the other handurbanization gather large numbers of people to the cities, increasing the probability ofoccurrence of social risk urban, urban public security is facing new challenges.Endanger public emergencies huge city, spread was a chain reaction that will causeincalculable damage to the city and destroyed. Maintain stability and public safety city is an important function of a government must bear, the Government’s ability topromptly and effectively resolve social potential public emergencies or is alreadyhappening, is an important indicator of the level of government management.Therefore, how to improve the government’s ability to respond to public emergencies,how to build a scientific and reasonable emergency management system thatmaximize public emergencies to defuse the negative impact, creating a new one to thecontinuity and stability of the urban development environment, has become a keyissue to be solved in the Shanghai municipal government.This article is based on the above background, with Shanghai this favorablecarrier, city emergency management system of the existing status quo in Shanghaiprofound analysis, summarized the main problems, and on this basis, deep reflection,the use of crisis management theory, the theory of public crisis management,emergency management theory, and so do the qualitative research and systemsanalysis, and then proposed to build the Shanghai public Emergency managementSystem countermeasures and suggestions.The main contents of this paper are as follows:Introduction discusses the research background and significance, the study ofliterature at home and abroad to do a simple comb, and then briefly describe what thisstudy methods, and proposed research priorities and innovation of this paper. The firstchapter is to define the content of some of the underlying concepts, the cornerstone ofthe theory are discussed in this article is based. Chapters II and III is the main part ofthis paper carried out systematically in-depth analysis and interpretation. Mainlydiscussed the current situation and existing problems of Shanghai’s emergencymanagement system, and the problems were more in-depth analysis. The fourthchapter is about emergency management system to build Shanghai puts forward somecountermeasures and suggestions.