Organizational Adaptation and Emergency Plan Adaptation under"Situational Gap":An Investigation Based on Urban Waterlogging Disaster Response
With the advancement of urbanization,modern disasters are increasingly characterized by complex risk-transmission mechanisms and cross-cutting impacts.Due to the uncertainty of disasters,it is difficult to capture residual risks in the design of pre-disaster institutionalized response system,which determines that the"situational gap"cannot be eradicated entirely,and it can only be bridged through government disaster adaptation activities in emergency management.Using the urban waterlogging disaster response in Xi'an from June to November 2021 as a case study,this paper investigated the bridging effect of local government disaster response activities on the"situational gap"through social network analysis methods from two perspectives:organizational adaptation and emergency plan adaptation.This paper finds that organizational adaptation in the context of urban waterlogging disasters tends to involve increased structural redundancy and functional adaptation.Similarly,the adaptation of emergency plans emphasizes the development of grassroots emergency capabilities and the reinforcement of disaster prevention efforts.Furthermore,organizational adaptation and emergency plan adaptation are interconnected and mutually influential,jointly facilitating the adaptive evolution path of local government disaster response,characterized by"realistic feedback-iterative adjustment-emergency plan learning".The paper offers valuable insights for enhancing urban disaster management amid compound disasters and solving the problem of lagging capacity under the"situational gap".