Disaster Management of Sichuan Earthquake State Control, Museum, and Role of Army

Disaster in the conception of nature (the environment) and humans (social) as a unified whole, can be viewed as a ‘disturbance’ of the condition of society, which arises as a result of the inability of society itself to overcome the disruption/ disaster events. Phenomena such as a disaster of course have a negative impact on the lives and welfare of human beings. In common, disasters are unpredictable and powerful threats that affect generally all ofthose touched by them. As a threat to life and property disasters can cause substantial life changes. Furthermore, disaster has many dimensions to be review, represented, or managed. Disaster research, which has focused historically on emergency response and recovery, is incomplete without the simultaneous reading of the social impact hazards and risks associated with disasters, which includes data on the picture of vulnerability of people who are facing disaster experience. In practice, disaster event and representation of disaster have evolved in parallel, with the first focusing primarily on disaster event, then on disaster response and recovery. The three part; event, response and recovery, and representation of disaster is intersecting most directly with common concerns about disaster preparedness. It is important; however, that social science and disaster research interchangeably and view the above three core topics of disaster research within a single overarching framework. Such integration idea also provides the foundation for increased collaborative work by social study in disaster. The book titled The representation of Sichuan Earthquake Eventis a research report conducted by Asia Pacific division of Research Center for Regional Resources Indonesian Institute of Science that concern on disaster studies in China. Posing questions on kinds of representation existed in Sichuan earthquake; and the meaning of representation of the earthquake occurred, the research aimed to describe at process of earthquake representation and meaning in building knowledge about earthquake. Besides, the book shows how the experience and knowledge of society, especially in Sichuan, to earthquake, even in aspects of history, belief, metaphor, or legend. Hopefully, this knowledge builds local wisdom to maintain nature and society to face other