| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 政治學研究所 === 106 === After Chi-chi earthquake in 1999, the programs of community-based disaster prevention have started to expand and some issues are also unresolved in the meantime. One of the issues is that the communities themselves cannot operate the community-based organizations and perform the disaster prevention and rescue works when the resources of government are no longer available. This study applies the “A Ladder of Citizen Participation” and related theories and reviews how the programs of community-based disaster prevention are conducted in Taiwan. Also, the citizen participation involved is analyzed to find out the critical factors influencing the promotion of community-based disaster prevention. By qualitative in-depth interviews with representatives from government agencies and the leaders of the communities, this study provides strategies to increase citizen participation in the programs of community-based disaster prevention and the residents in the communities can actually be involved in the disaster prevention and rescue works. When the disasters strike, the residents can spontaneously evacuate or help each other to reduce the loss of lives and properties.
This study finds out that the citizen participation in the programs of community-based disaster prevention is on the rung of “Informing” or “Consultation” in the “Ladder of Citizen Participation”. The citizen participation of some better-performed communities can even fall on the rung of “placation”. This means that the citizen participation of the programs of community-based disaster prevention in Taiwan is “Tokenism” and there are still problems to cause the gap between the goal and the reality, including lack of participation and unable to operate by themselves. This study tries to introduce the theory of citizen participation to fill up the gap by emphasizing the citizen power and also suggests strategies for future programs of community-based disaster prevention, including having stable budgets or applications, raising the willingness of the leader of the communities, building the capabilities of policy and management, discussing different needs regarding to historic disasters and natural environment of the communities, partnership between the public and private sectors, creating verification system of professional institutions, integrating various issues and programs in the community, and strengthening the disaster awareness.
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