Impacts of Natural Disasters and Disaster Risk Management in China: The Case of China’s Experience in the Wenchuan Earthquake

Yi-Ming Wei, Ju-Liang Jin and Qiong Wang
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Ju-Liang Jin: Hefei University of Technology
Qiong Wang: National University of Singapore

Chapter Chapter 14 in Resilience and Recovery in Asian Disasters, 2015, pp 287-307 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Due to complicated climatic and geographic conditions, China remains severely vulnerable to frequent, wide-scale natural disasters. We analyzed the impact of natural disasters on human security, agriculture safety and economic security over the past 30 years. The results reveal the high vulnerability of China’s economic system to natural disasters. Moreover, climate warming will further exacerbate the vulnerability of its social-economic development system to natural disasters and increase its risks. China needs to implement a comprehensive strategy of disaster reduction for sustainable development and include integrated disaster risk management in its policies. Doing so will reduce the vulnerability of China’s socio-economic development system of natural disasters.

Keywords: Debris Flow; Gross Domestic Product; Natural Disaster; Wenchuan Earthquake; Disaster Risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-55022-8_14

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