致力氣象‧防災‧災防跨領域結合的心路歷程

The Mind Experience and Impression of Committing Myself to Weather, Disaster Prevention, and Inter-Discipline Collaboration of Hazard Mitigation

陳正改(Joe, C.K. Chen)

《中華防災學刊》 9卷2期 (2017/08) Pp. 155-180

摘要

在氣象局服務四十年期間，初期雖然面臨「氣象預報」工作的瓶頸，歷經外界的誤會和指責，但仍憑著一股熱忱、執著及敬業的態度，慢慢的轉進「氣象防災」，再邁向「災害防治」完全不同領域的生涯境界，最後親眼看見、親耳聽到全國同胞真正感受到氣象局以及各級政府的防救災單位，對民眾所付出的努力及關懷的讚許和肯定。尤其在遭遇各種天災地變時，民眾均能及早且主動地採取應變措施和處置作為，以減輕或避免不必要的危害，維護自己的生命財產安全，進而厚植我們的國力，心裡也感到相當的欣慰。至於負責災害防救業務的我們，在推動或執行「防災」或「災防」工作時，絕對不能無限上綱；因為以目前的科技水準，任何的「災害防救」措施及「災害防治」作為，絕對不可能讓災害所承受的「風險」降至零，這必須要對民眾講清楚、說明白，以免造成更大的誤解，甚至釀成更嚴重、更無謂的傷害，否則將得不償失

關鍵字

氣象預報 ； 防災(防範氣象災害) ； 災防(天然災害防治) ； 科技研究 ； 災害風險

並列摘要

During my four decades in the Central Weather Bureau (CWB), external misunderstanding and criticism on weather forecast had frustrated me in the beginning. However, I still gradually turned my work into weather disaster prevention, and then into natural hazard mitigation with enthusiasm and dedicated attitude. I finally personally witness the approval and appreciation from the public to the CWB and other government disaster prevention units. I also feel contented to see that the public can voluntarily take contingency measures and disposal actions in advance under hazardous conditions to prevent and mitigate unnecessary loss and to maintain their lives and property, thus holding our national power. Furthermore, we cannot exaggerate the effect of weather disaster prevention and natural hazard mitigation because of available technology limitation. The public must be educated that disaster prevention and hazard mitigation measures cannot completely eliminate the risk. Such misunderstanding can cause considerable and meaningless harm.

並列關鍵字

weather forecast ； weather disaster prevention ； natural hazard mitigation ； technology research ； disaster risk