How To Response To Typhoon Disaster

Typhoon is one of the most common disasters in China.Since ancient times,Xiamen city,on the southeast coast of China,has been affected by typhoon,which brings wind,rain and storm tide almost every year.But different times have produced very different results.From the perspective of disaster anthropology,this paper takes typhoon Meranti as the breakthrough point to explore the response to the typhoon disasters in different periods of Xiamen.Further more,it discusses the response mechanism of current typhoon disaster how to mitigate the impact of typhoon disaster on people and society.It is believed by the field research and theory that the impact of the typhoon disaster in Xiamen is not only determined by the vulnerability of the ecological environment such as geographic,climatic and hydrological,but also the social environmental vulnerability such as politics,economy and culture.The typhoon response system of Xiamen city has its historical,social and cultural factors,and the system itself has been gradually developed and institutionalized with the social changes in Xiamen.Before 1840,the Xiamen area was only able to cope with the typhoon disaster by the avoiding-disaster faith and disaster relief.After Xiamen opened the port,it brought the development of typhoon warning technology and the change of post-disaster relief mode.The current mobilization mechanisms to prevent typhoon has been formed in the wake of new China.The paper believes that the current typhoon disaster response mode in Xiamen has three parts:the sectional and hierarchical preplan mechanism,the top-down mobilization mechanism,the bottom-up response mechanism.The coordinated and virtuous cycle between the three parts reduces the impact of typhoon disaster.