In recent few decades, large-scale natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, cyclones and draughts claimed not only heavy casualties and significant property losses but also interruptions of economic and business activities, government operations, logistics, communications, education system, etc., resulted in global societies and livelihoods disruption. The process and efforts of functional resumption requires both capital investment and well-defined plans to better tackle the social functional suspension. To deal with those “Interruptions”, continuity plans at government, business and community levels are the three main pillars supporting socialeconomic stability to boost the economic from social and livelihood recovery. If major disasters happen, the continuity plans can provide guidance to governmental officials, business entrepreneurs and community residents in terms of procedures and priorities in keeping basic functional operations. In modern and civil society, livelihood disruptions induce cascading failures can result in confidence collapse of government operations. Last March, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquakes reiterated the necessity and importance of the pre-disaster continuity plans for quick-solved the interruptions and enhance disaster resilience at all levels.
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