Post Disaster Community Recovery—Case Study: 2008 Hurricane Ike in the United States vs 2015 Caihong Typhoon in China

摘要

Disaster happens frequently these years. Both America and China suffer all kinds of disasters. Many researches have been done to study the four stages of disaster: Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. But few researches are about the community recovery plan in these two countries. This study is based on case study about 2008 Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas and 2015 Typhoon Caihong in Zhanjiang, Guangdong. By comparing the difference between the recovery plan process, the results suggest that recovery plan process shows the way of “from bottom to top” in America and “from top to bottom” in China. And the civil participation is much deeper in America.