From Public-Private Partnerships to Build a Disaster-Preventive and Resilient City

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As a result of climate change, major flooding has affected multiple cities worldwide. To mitigate the damage caused by extreme weather, disaster prevention and rescue technologies have received considerable attention. Given that floods often occur in low-altitude areas, we selected Yunlin as our primary research subject in this study. Yunlin is a county-level administrative division of Taiwan, characterized by an area of 1,291 km2 and with a population of 659,468 in 2024. It has approximately flat terrain but is higher in the east and lower in the west. When heavy rainfall occurs, torrents from mountainous areas rush onto plains, where their flow speed sharply drops. This paper applies a qualitative analysis method based on public–private partnership (PPP) concept and a case study to explore how the Yunlin County Government and the private sector establish a cooperation model to respond to the floods. Our results indicated that the Yunlin County Government can build a data center in the Yunlin Technology Industrial Park or Huawei Industrial Park with the help of the private sector to collect data for decision-makers. Additionally, annual preorder and emergency priority procurement models can support the proposed PPP-based cooperation model. Nongovernmental organizations focusing on disaster prevention—such as the Taiwan Association of Disaster Prevention Industry, Disaster Management Society of Taiwan, and National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction—can bridge the gap between local governments and city residents to support cooperation models.