Emergency countermeasures against marine disasters in Qingdao City on the basis of scenario analysis

• Main Authors: Zhaohui Zhang, Xuliang Zhang, Zongjun Xu, Haiyan Yao, Ge Li, Xiujun Liu
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s11069-014-1332-z

Storm surge, sea wave, sea ice, red tide and harmful marine creature bloom are main marine disasters occurring in the coast and offshore areas of Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China. Marine disasters mentioned above can be divided into five categories, namely, marine meteorological disasters, marine hydrological disasters, marine geological disasters, marine ecological disasters and man-made marine disasters. Over the past century, the marine disasters in the coast and offshore areas of Qingdao City have caused great economic losses and casualties. In recent years, some problems still exist in emergency management against marine disasters in Qingdao City, such as inaccurate predictions of disasters, untimely early warning and lack of social participation in the emergency management. On the basis of scenario analysis, the authors try to predict different possible scenarios of marine disasters at different early warning levels and propose some optimized emergency countermeasures against marine disaster in Qingdao City. Results of our research can provide a theoretical basis for the revision and improvement of emergency plans and thus guarantee timely and effective emergency management actions against marine disasters in Qingdao City. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 Marine disasters, Emergency management, Scenario analysis, Emergency plans, Qingdao City