自1990年起在全球范围内展开的“国际减灾十年”活动至今已有很大的进展,但人类越发感到暴戾恣睢的各类灾变正不断变化方式构成新的危险源。人类不仅关注自然巨灾和人为灾害,也更加关注屡屡发生的人体自身的灾害问题。中国是世界上有人体自焚记载最早的国家。1694年,即清康熙三十三年在山东潍县曾发生一老妪口中吐火而自焚的事件。1990年4月15日上午8时,湖 Progress has been made so far in the global “Decade” since 1990. However, humankind is increasingly feeling that the ever-changing and disruptive conditions of the stormy and hostile forms of disasters constitute a new source of danger. Humans not only pay attention to natural catastrophes and man-made disasters, but also pay more attention to the frequent human disasters. China is the earliest recorded self-immolation in the world. In 1694, in the 33 years of the reign of the Qing Emperor Kangxi, an incident of fire and self-immolation occurred in an old port in Weixian County, Shandong Province. April 15, 1990 at 8 am, Lake