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Area of Science:

  • Disaster Management and Emergency Response
  • Sociology of Disasters
  • Network Analysis in Crisis Situations

Background:

  • Emergency response coordination is critical for effective disaster management.
  • Understanding how disaster context influences coordination structures is essential for improving response.
  • Climate change is increasing the frequency of novel and high-intensity disaster events.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how shock intensity and threat familiarity jointly shape emergency response network structures and task sequencing.
  • To analyze coordination differences in response to Typhoons Yagi and Bebinca across six Chinese provinces.
  • To provide insights for disaster governance design in the context of evolving climate-related hazards.

Main Methods:

  • Employed an embedded comparative case study design.
  • Analyzed network structures and task sequencing during typhoon responses.
  • Compared coordination patterns across six Chinese provinces under varying disaster contexts.

Main Results:

  • Familiar, high-intensity disasters correlated with more integrated, centralized coordination networks.
  • Unfamiliar disasters resulted in fragmented coordination with continuous information feedback.
  • Shock intensity consistently related to network integration; threat familiarity enabled larger mobilization without necessarily increasing integration.
  • Recovery operations were stable in familiar contexts but less persistent in unfamiliar ones.

Conclusions:

  • Disaster governance should differentiate between exploitation-based coordination (familiar threats) and exploration-based coordination (unfamiliar events).
  • Effective coordination strategies must adapt to the specific characteristics of the disaster context, including intensity and familiarity.
  • Findings have implications for regions facing novel hazard exposures due to climate change.