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Meeting the sphere standards: An analysis of earthquake response in China
Tao Bo
author
Bartel A. Van De Walle
author
2013
Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie
KIT; Baden-Baden
English
As a country which frequently suffers from natural disasters, especially earthquakes, China has implemented its own disaster management system to respond to them. The Chinese government gained practical experiences on how to respond to severe earthquakes after the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake and 2010 Yushu Earthquake. Although China has done a lot to improve its response operations, challenges remain. This paper analyses what these challenges are by using the Sphere Standard as a benchmark to measure the Chinese response operations. The Sphere project was launched in 1997 by Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. It framed a Humanitarian Charter and established the Minimum Standards for response which emphasize meeting the urgent survival needs of people in the affected regions, while asserting their basic human right to a life with dignity. Based on this analysis, suggestions are provided to improve China's earthquake response operations.
Disaster prevention
Disasters
Information systems
Management information systems
Spheres
2008 wenchuan earthquakes
China
Disaster management
Earthquake response
International federation
Non-government organizations
Practical experience
Severe earthquakes
Earthquakes
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TaoBo+BartelA.VanDeWalle2013
ISCRAM 2013 Conference Proceedings – 10th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
ISCRAM 2013
T. Comes
F
Fiedrich
editor
10th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2013
Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie
KIT; Baden-Baden
conference publication
517
525
9783923704804
2411-3387
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