Streamlining Disaster Information Management for Reducing Impact of Natural Disasters

To elevate for disaster prevention, this paper assumes extreme importance for preventive, application-driven, and efficient disaster prevention information management for reducing impact of natural disasters. It analyzes and discusses the task from three different perspectives: content, process and circumstances. The content perspective includes i) disaster prevention information network infrastructure, ii) deployment of urban and rural disaster prevention systems and iii) information concurrency and coexistence. The process perspective includes i) application of ICT technologies, ii) enhancement of disaster prevention data collection and analysis capabilities, iii) improved decision-making and onsite command structures and iv) acceleration of recovery system informatization. The circumstances perspective includes i) disaster-information-related laws and acts, ii) definition of disaster prevention tasks, iii) improved situation assessment capability, iv) consolidation and feedback and v) the role of the media. Achieving efficient disaster prevention information management by satisfying the requirements will contribute greatly to reducing the impact of natural disasters.