We use a case study to highlight the disaster impacts
and insights drawn from Singapore’s risk management experience with specific
references to the SARS epidemic. We draw on the lesson-learning from Singapore’s
experience in fighting the SARS epidemic, and discuss implications for future
practice and research in disaster risk management. The implications are explained
in four aspects: staying vigilant at the community level, remaining flexible in a
national command structure, the demand for surge capacity, and collaborative
governance at regional level. This chapter concludes with a presence of the flexible
command structure on both the way and the extent it was utilized. This helps to
explain the success level of the containment of the SARS epidemic.