Revealing the generation mechanism of cross-regional emergency cooperation during accidents and disasters rescue

Promoting the development of cross-regional emergency cooperation is critical to emergency management. This paper’s primary goal is to determine the influencing factors and generation mechanism of cross-regional emergency cooperation during accidents and disasters rescue. The qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) method is used to study 26 especially major and major accidents and disasters rescue, aiming to answer the following three questions. First, which factors have the most significant impact on emergency cooperation? Second, how is emergency cooperation generated based on influencing factors? Third, what combination of influencing factors is more likely to produce cross-regional emergency cooperation? Based on the literature review, the influencing factors of cross-regional emergency cooperation include the subjects, objects, environment, methods, regulations, and guarantees of emergency management. There are three path models for cross-regional emergency cooperation in especially major and major accidents and disasters rescue, including the Autonomous regulation path, the System driven path, and the Demand generation path. The possibility of Autonomous regulation cross-regional emergency cooperation is greater than that of the other two paths. Cross-regional emergency cooperation strategies are proposed to build a comprehensive system of cross-regional emergency cooperation environment, regulations, and guarantees.