Research on collaborative governance framework and implementation pathways for emergency management of extreme weather events

Abstract

[Objective] Under the influence of global climate change, extreme weather events in China have shown increasing frequency, intensity, and recurrence, posing serious threats and losses to social development. Research has shown that there are still problems in China's emergency management of extreme weather events, including “inadequate emergency management systems and mechanisms, shortcomings in meteorological forecasting and early warning technologies, and the urgent need to enhance social disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities”. Research on the collaborative governance of extreme weather emergency management can help improve the level of meteorological disaster emergency management in China. [Theory] In terms of theoretical construction, a “tripartite collaboration model” framework composed of “meteorological forecasting-government decision-making-social response” was proposed, providing new insights and solutions for the collaborative governance of extreme weather events. [Methods] A “four-dimensional collaborative governance framework” was proposed to achieve the shift from a single-subject perspective to a multi-subject collaborative perspective. The framework examined four dimensions: crosssystem collaborative governance mechanisms, digital governance paradigm transformation, open collaborative innovation networks, and proactive defense system provision, providing a new approach and model for the collaborative governance of extreme weather events. [Conclusion] The implementation pathways for collaborative governance of extreme weather emergency management are proposed as follows: advancing disaster prevention through “conceptual pre-positioning, early warning prepositioning, and scenario pre-positioning”; achieving high-quality emergency response through “internal government coordination, inter-departmental and inter-regional coordination, and government-society coordination”; and maximizing the effectiveness of disaster prevention and mitigation through “interactive sensing, emergency coordination, and effective response”.

Keywords

extreme weather / emergency management / collaborative governance / analytical framework / implementation pathway / influencing factors