5.3.1 Disaster Relief Mechanism

It is obvious that any post-disaster recovery is not as good as prior mitigation of risks.Due to increasing human impact on architectural heritage sites, the scope of disaster risk reduction has been broadened significantly to focus on both natural and man-made hazards and the related environmental, technological and biological hazards and risks.^[27]In the process of risk reduction, monitoring heritage sites, identifying and evaluating possible risks, taking reduction measures in advance are fundamentally important.

Under the framework of the National Natural Disaster Relief Emergency Plan, in 2006, the Jinan City Natural Disaster Relief Emergency Plan was issued and implemented, by which the specific natural disaster relief system and operational mechanism according to Jinan city characteristic were clarified.Compared with the old version, the specific measures for disaster warning response have been explained in more detail.(https://www.daowen.com)

The Plan is applicable to the meteorological disasters such as droughts, floods, wind, snow, low temperature freezing, sandstorms, earthquake, mountain collapses, landslides, mudslides and other geological disasters, as well as forest fires and biological disasters.The Municipal Disaster Reduction Committee is specially in charge of the natural disaster relief issues.The municipal departments of land resources, water conservancy, agriculture, forestry, meteorology, earthquake and other related agencies shall timely report the natural disaster warning and forecast to the committee office.The Committee pre-assesses possible disasters based on natural disaster warning and forecasting, combined with the natural conditions, population and socio-economic conditions of the affected areas.The Jinan City Natural Disaster Relief Emergency Plan also clarified the relevant content for post-disaster relief, rehabilitation, supervision and management procedures.