Essay on strengthening disaster reduction awareness

Our country is one of the major "climate vulnerable areas" in the world. Natural disasters occur frequently, are widely distributed, and cause huge losses. China is one of the countries with the most serious natural disasters in the world. Observational facts in the 20th century have shown that the frequency and intensity of extreme weather and climate events (El Ni?o, drought, floods, thunderstorms, hail, storms, high temperature weather and sandstorms, etc.) caused by climate change have increased significantly, directly endangering the development of our national economy. Therefore, I believe that we should now attach great importance to disaster prevention and reduction. In disaster prevention and reduction, we should adhere to the basic principle of "prevention first", put disaster monitoring, forecasting and early warning in a very prominent position, and attach great importance to and do a good job in releasing early warning information to the whole society, including vulnerable groups in society. Meteorological disasters are a type of public emergency event that can have long warning time and high prediction accuracy. Strengthen short-term and nowcasting of disastrous weather, strengthen the production of early warning signals for sudden meteorological disasters, and strengthen meteorological The release of early warning information is an important scientific and technological guarantee for improving the level of disaster prevention and reduction. We must rely on science and technology to improve the comprehensive quality of disaster prevention and reduction. By strengthening scientific research and technology development in the field of disaster prevention and reduction, adopting and promoting advanced monitoring, prediction, early warning, prevention and emergency response technologies and facilities, and giving full play to the role of expert teams and professionals, we will improve the scientific and technological level of responding to natural disasters. .

Governments and social groups should organize and publicize disaster knowledge and train disaster professionals or volunteers. Relevant departments have widely publicized knowledge on prevention, avoidance, self-rescue, mutual rescue, and disaster reduction through books, newspapers, audio-visual products, electronic publications, radio, television, and the Internet to enhance the public's awareness of danger, social responsibility, self-rescue, and mutual assistance. Rescue ability. By carrying out the action of "disaster prevention and reduction into communities, campuses, enterprises, and villages", community residents at the most basic level, primary and secondary school students, corporate employees, farmers in rural areas, especially remote areas, and vulnerable groups in society can strengthen disaster prevention and reduction. Awareness, mastering basic disaster avoidance, self-rescue and mutual rescue skills to achieve the purpose of disaster reduction. Disaster prevention and reduction need to start from childhood, and disaster and disaster emergency response knowledge should be included in the teaching content of primary and secondary schools. Relevant departments should prepare publicity manuals and materials for natural disaster prevention, widely publicize and popularize disaster knowledge, emergency management knowledge, disaster prevention and reduction knowledge, and improve the ability of grassroots people to participate in emergency management and self-rescue capabilities.

The public should fully understand the important role of disaster early warning information, understand the meaning of various early warning information, and take active and effective responses according to different early warning information and different early warning levels when receiving disaster early warning information. It is necessary to establish extensive and smooth early warning information release channels. Early warning information is released using various forms such as radio, telephone, mobile phone text messages, street display screens, and the Internet. Important early warning information can be instantly inserted and rolled out in TV programs. Relevant departments can ensure that disaster warning information reaches effective users within an effective time, giving them the opportunity to take effective defensive measures to reduce casualties and property losses.

Natural disaster risk refers to the degree of disaster that may be reached in the next few years and the possibility of its occurrence. Carry out disaster risk investigation, analysis and assessment, understand the occurrence patterns of different disasters in specific areas, understand the impact of various natural disaster factors on nature, society, economy and the environment, as well as the short-term and long-term changes of the impact , and take actions on this basis to reduce the risk of natural disasters and reduce the losses caused by natural disasters to the social economy and people's lives and property. Risk assessment of natural disasters includes disaster monitoring and identification, determination of natural disaster classification and assessment standards, establishment of disaster information systems and assessment models, disaster risk assessment and countermeasures, etc.