Abstract:

To aim at the unique geographicalhydrological environments and the natural disasters of historical period happened in Hubei province，this paper has analyzed situation of disasters and specifically made a survey of some actions about governing the natural disasters in Hubei in the late Qing，from which some lessons will be drawn for Hubei local government to govern disasters nowadays.The paper has utilized the local history and other documents of the natural disasters；and has applied some theories of history，geography，disaster science and so on to research synthetically historical reasons of those disasters；also has comprehensively studied some types and characteristics of those natural calamities.The paper has also expounded situation of society economic development that was destroyed；at the same time，the paper has introduced many measures that local government adopted for governing calamities of Hubei province in the late Qing dynasty.As a result，the local and central government of Qing dynasty had selected and adopted a good many of measures to dealing with the natural disasters in Hubei province，but it did not make some achievement expectantly because that had many reasons limiting government's action.At last，the paper has drawn conclusions that the government didn't achieve anticipative results in the late period of Qing dynasty，but which provided some lessons to learn for governing disasters in Hubei province today.The government of the natural disasters must carry out by scientific systematic plan and disposition in the solid social environment，systematically governing，and must build up an effective mechanism that can connect disaster control with relief，and construct protection of ecological environment，and so on.

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